that would be an alternate to a "flood control" like screen

Yes
Let me give u a chance and support ur idea (I have read all 6 pages to be honest with u )
And I am very dissapointed to see how many ppl leave their comment without even reading first post properly

Definitly YES. I hate early bumpers and should be warned. Mods do nothing about them even when they early bump constantly. I think more warns should be handed out for the constant rule breakers.

me too and it makes me feel (slightly)



mods do something, they close topics reported and might give verbal warnings without that being noticeable
but i agree, more warnings should be issued for the constant rule breakers BUT the question is, were to draw the line
often harsh punishment is not the solution, the question is how to make it clear to them that it is better to stick to the rules

in order for this to take place, there would have to be some form of "post analyzer" since the person could be responding to a question in the thread

unfortunately another comment which shows that the post was not ready properly

current score:

40:37 (of the 37, 28 did not reply at all & 5 of the remainder did not read the post properly)

still the same score

I'm going to vote no on this as well. While I do not like users early bumping I myself have had instances where I needed to post ahead of the bump rule and directly after myself.

Example: I had agreed to a trade (so I was the last poster) and while I was in the game I got a realm down while waiting on a mediator (the mediation button was used) so I had a friend go in the game and pick up the items for me.
It was needed for myself and my friend to both post in the trade thread for records that he was in-fact the person getting the items.

There was no other way around me doing it. I had to post that he was taking the items for me, in the thread, and he had to confirm. Thus, I violated the early bump rule, but it was at the mediators request.

I thought of this too and I expect a lot of other people have too but the problem is if people are going to violate the early bump rule and they are unable to do so on their post they will simply repost it. This will lead to mass reposting which is much more difficult to manually keep track of.

i.e you are solving one problem but making another worse as a consequence.

This post was edited by hue_two on May 20 2008 12:26pm