So I need 50 posts to play in the arcade now? man...

I was working getting the #1 spot on Curveball (currently #2 - *pats self on back*) argh...

So.. umm.. hi!

That's a lot of posts now needed. On a bulletin board such as this you can only realistically expect a handful of users to make 50 posts of any value whatsoever.

Either the site admins are happy for the arcades to become an exclusive club, if so why not reset all the scores too?

OR

the arcarde will get far less use and you may well find a reduction in the quality of posts as arcade nuts post nonsense to reach the 50 mark.

Personally I was beginning to like this site, the 5 posts to play was a good idea and made me delve into the forums which otherwise may have taken me longer to do. This 50 post rule may now put me off completely though as it would only be occasionally that I would post on PC related subjects.

'tis a shame as it was the arcade that brought me (and probably a number of other users) here in the first place - even if only a few of those become regular contributors to the forums then surely the arcade is justified in staying open to all?

With this rule you may lose what is potentially a great viral marketing tool that you have at your exposure namely links from other sites to the games on this one. As a newbie turning up here to play a game someone suggested being confronted with a 50-post rule would send me straight to one of the numerous other free game sites on the web.

/diatribe

What's up with this man... Why we keep needing to post? All it does is complicate a few things... :-\

Well I can understand that they would want people to be active members of the community. After all, bandwidth isn't exaclty cheap these days. Surprisingly I see very few ads on this site.

But you're right soma, the 50 post limit will most likely result in people spamming the boards just to get there. Just like another hardware site where you get different titles depending on your post count. You should have seen the crap posted there. But it's the webmaster's choice, it's his site after all.

50 posts is too much for me... Right now I'm looking for subjects to make a small post and run mine up cuz this is a great hobby for in-school. :-). Oh well... Time to go find more

That was one of the main reason I increased the post count up to 50 in this case, as I did not want the quality of posts to suffer (which they were when it was only 5 posts, there were several threads created just to get 5 posts).

I will remove the post limit of 50 as a trial, and see how it goes. The few have been spoiling it for the majority, but as long as there are no non-sense posts created and it stays on topic, I would be happy to keep it open

Sounds cool Ian... Would you be able to send a reminder when entering high-score areas to post on the forums so that it doesn't lack and everyone will see that you need posts. Make blank threats and if no one posts, create that block of 5-20 posts or whatever so that you need to post and erase ALL blank posts.

I'm not sure what you mean, but as long as you check the forums out once in a while, or read a couple of articles. We try to run the site with as little advertising as possible, as I dislike it as much as everyone else, all we want is a community of like minded computer enthusiasts

LONG LIVE IAN. i hope that the people with the stupi post will stop but if not then there is al ways the banning thing that can happen. but i hope that this will make somepeople thinks happy

Please do not misunderstand us.

50 posts is not a taget or a challenge it is an intended block for people who do not regularly participate in the community.

Spam will not be tolerated, IP bans are already being issued.

To the people who are being respectful of our decision thanks for your understanding, a resolution is being discussed to create a better balance for you.