Dealing with the upcoming pokemon black and white flood

[The Catboy]

Since I remember the last messes with big releases I had a strange idea. When the Pokemon Black and white roms are dumbed, there will be more than likely an AP on them. And we all know the huge mess that is going to cause. So as an idea, I think the site should lock out the Register button for a few days/weeks so we don't get as many people coming on all at once. It won't solve nor stop the problem, but it will make the site a little easier to mange without all the new accounts being made all at once.
As well another idea was given to me by CamulaHikari. If not that not allow low levels during X amount of time not be allowed to make new topics. Again it won't completely solve the problem, but after the last mess this site went there, I think we should seriously bunker down the site so we don't have a repeat of last few times.

 

[XXLANCEXX]

[NDS] Pokemon Black (J)(XPA)(DSienchanced) [NDS]

 

[Zarcon]

[NDS] Pokemon Black (J)(XPA)(DSienchanced) [NDS]

If you posted that for cheap laughs I'm suspending you for 999 days.

 

[basher11]

[NDS] Pokemon Black (J)(XPA)(DSienchanced) [NDS]

i doubt it.

 

[XXLANCEXX]

thats what i saw an a ****** site had to block the site cause its against the rules but its a mp3 file so d/w about it



Im just gonna play .DOT Hack G//U Series on my PS2 until this comes out
I have alot of side missions to complete cause i want to have a 100% complete save file

 

[ThatDudeWithTheFood]

No and No things like this are things you just have to deal with.Think about it this way.CRAPLOAD of posts and WHINY noobs or CRAPLOAD of topics.

 

[Nimbus]

We could just make it so that nobody with under 50 posts can post in Pokemon B/W related topics. That would be relatively fair.

 

[ThatDudeWithTheFood]

How would the forum distinguish from Pokemon to non Pokemon thread.

 

[Nimbus]

A simple check based on keywords such as

Pokemon (Spelt in any manner)
PKMN (Spelt in any manner)

This would only apply to new topics. In the case of posting in an already existing topic, we should probably increase the flood timer.

Edit: Yay 300 Posts!

 

[iFish]

We could just make it so that nobody with under 50 posts can post in Pokemon B/W related topics. That would be relatively fair.

Even if that was possible.

People would then spam to 50 and post what they want....

 

[gifi4]

We just have to deal with the massive flood, mods will have fun locking billions of topics though =(

 

[8BitWalugi]

I can remember they DID lock down the whole site to only members with 100+. If anything, lock it down to 200+, or something like that.

 

[Raika]

We could just make it so that nobody with under 50 posts can post in Pokemon B/W related topics. That would be relatively fair.

Even if that was possible.

People would then spam to 50 and post what they want....

If they tried spamming to 50 the mods would easily notice...
Then BAM suspension.

 

[gifi4]

I can remember they DID lock down the whole site to only members with 100+. If anything, lock it down to 200+, or something like that.

But, what about all the people who are posting that have under 100/200 posts, not for pokemon but for other things???

 

[heavyknight]

Ideas - prevent a certain number of post counts from posting, IE. those people with 1 or 2 posts that generally disappear not long after posting.
Restriction applies to making new topics, but posting in an existing thread another story. And if they do spam/use nonsense just to get a count up for their needs, ban, block, delete, whatever.
I figure this way it wouldn't hurt existing users, and encourage regular use of GBATemp, as opposed to registering, asking something, and quit after that.

And then there's PoweredByTux's filter idea, turn Pokemon into something (funny?) until it dies down. Digimon, grapes, tomatoes, innuendo, Nintendo, anything works. Revenge trolling!
Add to the rules for the special Pokemon occasion, to address the whole 'bugged' forum stuff. It shows they didn't read, at least. No ifs, ands, or buts, excuses be gone.
For those with actual help for the game, such as strategies for the first gym, and what Pokemon to catch, B/W, PM, PM B/W should be enough to bypass it.

 

[p1ngpong]

We aren't going to lock anything down or restrict anyone's posting ability.

And we certainly aren't going to filter out the word pokemon or any of its variants while massive amounts of discussion about the game are going on. That would just cause large scale disruption to legitimate threads about the game and not really solve anything. If anything it would create a whole host of new problems amongst the n00bs.

Really there has been a great deal of discussion about these "n00b floods" before for years. All these ideas have been touted around before, none of them would really work.

Like I said its just something we deal with, its not like the end of the world is coming.

 

[_Chaz_]

We aren't going to lock anything down or restrict anyone's posting ability.

And we certainly aren't going to filter out the word pokemon or any of its variants while massive amounts of discussion about the game are going on. That would just cause large scale disruption to legitimate threads about the game and not really solve anything. If anything it would create a whole host of new problems amongst the n00bs.

Really there has been a great deal of discussion about these "n00b floods" before for years. All these ideas have been touted around before, none of them would really work.

Like I said its just something we deal with, its not like the end of the world is coming.

LIES!!!





REPENT REPENT!

 

[monkat]

Let's just close down GBAtemp for a few weeks.

 

[Fudge]

1. No
2. Yes

 

[haflore]

We could just do what we did before:

1. Complain in preparation. [In progress...]
2. Become annoyed at false reports of an early release. [Already had one of those.]
3. When it really is released, wade through people asking if it works(walks) on R4, and trying to sneak in links.
4. Report/create threads about the Game(Pokemon).
5. Find the strange/funny ones and make fun of them in the EoF.
6. Be shocked at how small the flood was compared to our expectations.
7. Look forward in horror to the next really huge release.

This has always worked before, let's keep doing it!

 

[Nimbus]

We could just make it so that nobody with under 50 posts can post in Pokemon B/W related topics. That would be relatively fair.

Even if that was possible.

People would then spam to 50 and post what they want....

In which they would be infraction, and warned, and unless they were to heed those warnings, they would eventually be suspended or banned.