[Feature Request] Daily User Topic Creation Limit per Forum

[Pepe]

The Problem

As far as I can tell there are too many chronic attention seekers, I think it's due to too much social media dark patterns: everything must be a new thing, everything must have instant gratification, everything must be a continuous infinite scroll of topics, everything must be sensational, everything must be theirs ...
- there are people creating the same topics others have made just a few lines bellow them;
- there are users who make topics like a forum is Instagram or TikTok or something, instead of posting in a natural order on the same topic, every idea they have they post it in a new topic;

I guess some are doing it without even realizing what they do, being preconditioned to certain behaviors from the social media sites, some are doing it just to troll and some for Awards farming (the new job in 2023).

I, for one, think, because of that, any useful information is harder to find if you just want to see what's new around the forums, without looking specifically for something with the Find option. Some information is divided over multiple places instead of being in one place, and because it's divided, it's harder to notice; I'm expected to be a web crawler and check every topic every other second not to miss anything. And the amount of useless topics is so big, you really have to form an eye for what is a bait topic and what is a real one.

I haven't seen mods merging topics or blocking too much of the spammed topics. Maybe Valve didn't offer the merge topics function to the mods, or maybe the mods are just too few to handle the amount of made topics on every forum.

The Solution
(Not really) Having a merge option (in case they don't) or hiring more staff would help, but in the end this solution fixes a functionality problem, while not fixing the time consuming issue. Even with more mods, they still waste valuable time which could be used in better ways, like positive user engagement, better information on the forums, etc.

Creating a daily user topic creation limit per forum would improve the flow of information on the forums, thus helping users like me finding more valuable topics, it would also improve the time mods have to waste going though the posts, because the information is better structured.

It's just an idea that with a bit of brainstorming could evolve into something useful. It doesn't need to be topics/forum/user, it could be something else. The main idea is having a valve to control the flow, Valve's valve.

[Aachen]

There’s a daily post limit as things currently stand.

[Pepe]

Aachen eredeti hozzászólása:

There’s a daily post limit as things currently stand.

Could you elaborate on that? What is that limit? Maybe it should be decrease a little. I am not talking about the daily post limit, though, but a daily topic limit.

[Aachen]

Radoo eredeti hozzászólása:

Could you elaborate on that? What is that limit? Maybe it should be decrease a little. I am not talking about the daily post limit, though, but a daily topic limit.

Something like two-hundred per twenty-four hours on the fora, IIRC?

Devil’s in the details — what is an appropriate limit?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Radoo eredeti hozzászólása:

Aachen eredeti hozzászólása:

There’s a daily post limit as things currently stand.

Could you elaborate on that? What is that limit? Maybe it should be decrease a little. I am not talking about the daily post limit, though, but a daily topic limit.

10 posts per rolling 24 hours for limited accounts.

Unlimited accounts get 200 posts per rolling 24 hours.

Topic creation does need to be cut down though.

[eram]

Aachen eredeti hozzászólása:

There’s a daily post limit as things currently stand.

a new account that's limited can make 100 new threads in 30 minutes in the off topic forum.

if there are limits they are broken.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

eram eredeti hozzászólása:

Aachen eredeti hozzászólása:

There’s a daily post limit as things currently stand.

a new account that's limited can make 100 new threads in 30 minutes in the off topic forum.

if there are limits they are broken.

That isn't true. They have a hard capped limit of 10 per rolling 24 hour period.

They use multiple alt accounts to get around it. We all know who that person is too.

[eram]

cSg|mc-Hotsauce eredeti hozzászólása:

eram eredeti hozzászólása:

a new account that's limited can make 100 new threads in 30 minutes in the off topic forum.

if there are limits they are broken.

That isn't true. They have a hard capped limit of 10 per rolling 24 hour period.

They use multiple alt accounts to get around it. We all know who that person is too.

:summercat2023:

i knew someone would say that without checking, with alts its even more

if there are limits they are broken.
https://imgur.com/a/Rqs8bnu

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

eram eredeti hozzászólása:

cSg|mc-Hotsauce eredeti hozzászólása:

That isn't true. They have a hard capped limit of 10 per rolling 24 hour period.

They use multiple alt accounts to get around it. We all know who that person is too.

i knew someone would say that without checking, with alts its even more

https://imgur.com/a/Rqs8bnu

He actually used 5 separate alt accounts that day. I remember reporting them.

[eram]

5 accounts would only be 50 threads, i counted over 100 before giving up.
the limits they are broken

edit---- even if the limits were working you can make as many alts as you like, those need to be limited as well.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

eram eredeti hozzászólása:

5 accounts would only be 50 threads, i counted over 100 before giving up.
the limits they are broken.

I stopped reporting after I reported 5 of them. That user has over 30 alt accounts just like that other user with the gumball avatar.

[eram]

10 posts per day when its working but unlimited alts per day.

[Boblin the Goblin]

eram eredeti hozzászólása:

5 accounts would only be 50 threads, i counted over 100 before giving up.
the limits they are broken.

He literally made a lot of alt accounts and named them the same to bypass the limit. He also used old alt accounts and changed their name as well.

The limit wasn't broken, he just bypassed it.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

eram eredeti hozzászólása:

10 posts per day when its working but unlimited alts per day.

That's what another suggestion has asked for, to have support actually use the tools properly to ban all the users alt accounts and prevent them from creating more.

The latter is probably not feasible though.

[Crazy Tiger]

Admen, Gumball and Naru are terrible with their gazillion alt accounts. The paid mods really should do something about ban evasion like that.

Regarding the subject, mods already can merge threads. The volunteer mods in the past did, but the paid mods simply don't do that.

I'm not against limiting the amount of new threads an account can create on a daily basis.

[KalGimpa]

cSg|mc-Hotsauce eredeti hozzászólása:

eram eredeti hozzászólása:

10 posts per day when its working but unlimited alts per day.

That's what another suggestion has asked for, to have support actually use the tools properly to ban all the users alt accounts and prevent them from creating more.

The latter is probably not feasible though.

:summercat2023:

that would suck

i'm all for banning the alts of people that abuse it like that

but alts themselves are not a bad thing