It's elitist... that's it. Sorry, but in everydaylife, people just deal with that kind of stupidity. If somebody here makes a stupid thread, then don't read on after you decided "hey, that's stoopid" and don't answer and that's ok. Seriously... Do people make you take an exam before talking to them? I don't think so...

cYa,

Tauwasser

Is people making uninformed requests even a problem on this board?

Quizzes suck because once one person solves it, they can easily post the answers on the web. (not to mention I hate that kind of elitist crap)

It isn't if the rules/questions require common sense.

a lot of forums instead of having quizes just have the user cycle through the series of rules and policies before they register or can post.

No matter what you do though you'll never stop the flow of ignorant people, and when I say ignorant, I mean ignorant by choice or laziness, but that's life.

Enough..

Having a quiz based on the rules themselves isn't a bad idea, but we're not instituting any quiz. I wouldn't bother visiting any board that made me take a quiz regardless of content. I don't want to have to stop coming to my own board.

You can continue to discuss it if you really want, but we won't be having any. I hate stupid people as much as everybody else, but it's no reason to compromise this site's integrity or environment.

The problem is -- people that don't read the FAQs don't read stickies either.  So this wouldn't reduce the number of unwanted threads -- it would just result in a large number of unnecessary bans.


When I think about what "these types" of people do, is they see a board about ROM hacking, and say  "ooo, I can ask my question here!".  So they register when necessary, and immediately head for the New Topic button.  Having warnings and minor flashing items on screen up until this point will probably go unnoticed... because as of this point, the person cares about absolutely nothing besides finding a way to post on the board.


With that in mind... you might just be able to have a message after the "destination" is reached.  Since the person has already jumped through all the hoops to get access to the boards -- by this point they may be more receptive to rules/warnings/whatever.  I would think you could detour the person to a "READ THIS BEFORE YOU POST" page after they click on the "new topic" button if their post count is 0.  Since it isn't so commonplace and isn't really part of the general routine associated with registering for message boards, it may catch the person offguard and go "woah, what's this?" and have them actually READ it....  as long as you keep it short.  Even a medium-large sized paragraph might be too much.  If a person hits this page and sees "read this before you post" -- followed by a huge page of rules, they'll just go "yeah whatever" and skip past it.  Hell, even I don't bother with large pages of rules.


That would probably be how I would approach such a problem -- if I felt it was worth bothering with.  But the question we have to ask ourselves is... is this really that bad?  I mean we get one thread like this... what... every couple of months?  Hardly an epidemic.  Honestly -- I don't think we are in need of any such system yet...  especially not something as horribly extreme as an entry quiz  (I'm really glad Nightcrawler flat out said "no" to that)

Warning, sarcasm detectors are broken. Dispatch repair teams to contain the situation immediately.

I guess I should've put a "this post should not be taken seriously!" disclaimer with my last post. Part of the reason I used a silly :crazy: smiley to begin with. Ahhh well.