Nursery for New Members

Nursery for New Members

I've had a few people mention the decline in the forum thanks to spammers, people not searching before starting threads, lots of rubbish being posted by trolls, etc.

And so this is the action being taken... new members will go into a nursery period before they get to have free run of the forum.

What this means is simple, new members can:
Search the forums
Reply to existing threads
Upload a profile picture (non-animated)
Have a blog
Have a picture album
Join an existing social group
What new members can't do is:
Start new threads
Use Private Messaging
Have a custom avatar
Upload a animated profile picture
Edit their posts (they can't undo what they say)
Rate threads
Give reputation
Post on polls
Anything else not explicitly granted to them above
What defines a "new member"?

That's also simple, you are no longer a new member when you have both:
Posted 5 times
Been on the site for 48 hours
So what I'm forcing is that all users have to learn how to use the site and participate before they're given free run of the place.

It's with immediate effect.

-- ^^^^ first post in this thread, sounds like you need to wait 48 hrs --

-- ^^^^ first post in this thread, sounds like you need to wait 48 hrs --

of course I read the 1st post - but did not seem to apply to existing members, only new ones - but clearly if you have been a member before the change, but had not posted much then seems you would also be caught... oh well

ok will wait - bit annoying really as I joined in May - but only made 3 posts...

VB changed the forum from running on Vanilla to a different system so it sounds like you got caught up in that rootes

Boo.

Just took the plunge and spent the day deliberating and finally buying my first fixed gear. Incredibly happy.

Now the forum... looks like a fun place. Either that or I am a complete masochist. Regardless, looking forward to participating more often.

what bike did you buy

good idea

what bike did you buy

A 51cm black BLB frame and built up from there.

I had heard some things about their service not being great, but I have to disagree completely. Despite the fact that they were yapping away in Polish a lot of the time, they were brilliant help with information and got my bike done on less than two hours.

New to the forum and new to fixed gear. Just picked up an old 3 gear Raleigh frame on the weekend which I am going to gradually work on while I figure out the ropes.

hoi hoi
I am a dedicated SSer and about to pop my fixie cherry

i am a MTBer at heart but have caught the roady bug after buying a giant bowery for commuter duties

i ride it on the freewheel side but will be going fixed when i gets a new rear tyre.

Nice try, but you still have to wait 48hrs before you can post a thread. Try combining sentences into what we like to call a paragraph.

stop

doing

that

or

hippy

will

sit on you?

Oi you fuckers.. I'm the one trying to crack the 20k! Stop stealing my posts :P

Oi you fuckers.. I'm the one trying to crack the 20k! Stop stealing my posts :P

Stop combining your words into sentences into paragraphs into posts then, you waster. :)

It wouldn't be fair. That would be like taking forumEPO.

been a member for 3 months, never got round to posting though!
im sure i will get bummed on here so i bought extra vaseline.

You'll need more than vas.. what with certain forumengers penchant for fisting.

You only fist midgets though hippy, right? Do you have some special sixth sense that allows you to identify midgets over the internets? Are you grooming ParryMan?