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I absolutely agree on your point of increasing the quality of posts and decreasing their required monthly number as a perk. I’ve always found it unfair that someone might poor their heart and soul into each and every of their 20 posts to make them of the highest standards possible... while someone else might not be bothered and make posts for the sake of it, ones that barely meet the minimum of what would be considered as a quality post.

However, I’m not very sure on what basis a posts quality could be determined. The number of characters/words isn’t a great way to determine a post’s quality level. Anyone can easily write an essay about the TV in their living room, but would that really be a quality post? Obviously not.

Glad to read your approval of the idea... I'm sure many feel the same and just NEED a tiny bit of coercion to comply with it. :-)

Not sure if you did read this: Lack of quality content, member contributions and interest (state of the community), the problem isn't new!.. It 's even the reason why I didn't start posting in here the day I registered in the forum, but waited till I saw the first thread topic that pushed me out of the anonymity to newbie status with 1 post count; the thread, by the way, was 'Controversial: Does God Exist?'.

There is no automatic(/scripted) way to assess posts quality, but SPAM is also easy to detect, be it one word or a 3-page manifest; moderators are here for that!..

The idea that I'm promoting is to hold hosted members to a pre-defined ratio (total credit points / total post numbers), be it 3, 4, 5 etc.. and why not make big specs VPSs requiring a bigger ratio than lower specs etc....

The thing this requirement brings to the table is to motivate hosted members to make more relevant threads and not just 20 posts averaging 2 or 3 sentences worth per post, saying nothing more than how happy / sorry / excited / looking forward to something or the like.... each and every month!... That's just sad!.. You can't build a forum worth checking on regularly with such content!...

Anyway, that's my 2 cents on this and it's up to the owner to deal with the consequences, ultimately.

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Edit: fixed a link.