New Topic Creation Limiting Feature

this is stupid

Decisions based on topic ratings always have me a bit iffy, because someone could have a legitimate, but unpopular opinion that would get downvoted to oblivion. I wish that could be left up to the moderators to decide, and not the general populace of LTB.

I disagree. If it's a quality topic/quality post, even if it's "unpopular", I doubt it be dropped to -5. This is more targeting topics like "The best trade ever" and "The game pissed me off", where they should have landed in the trade idea thread and the gameday thread, respectively, instead of a new thread being created.

Besides it's not like the "offending" person is banned from posting or anything. He just can't post a new topic for a week. And again this only affects members with 2 or fewer votes.

LOL at the Ltb'rs that are against this lol. Quality over Quantity is better when it comes to posting. Dave is doin a good thing here, by not makein the the forum cluttered with topics that shud be discussed in their rightful threads. If you hav a problem with it, keep posting quality posts and get that rep up.

If I cared about reputation, I would just curry favor with other posters, because there are some people being given reputation for posts with no substance. I'm not speaking for myself when I disagree with this feature being implemented since I don't post new topics much myself, but for someone new who has legitimate topics that people just don't agree with and thumbs down.

If I cared about reputation, I would just curry favor with other posters, because there are some people being given reputation for posts with no substance. I'm not speaking for myself when I disagree with this feature being implemented since I don't post new topics much myself, but for someone new who has legitimate topics that people just don't agree with and thumbs down.

I mean if many ppl thumbs it down cuz its prolly takeing up too much space in the forum or its jus a low quality post, (im not sayin bad, jus becuz all post deserve sum recognition.) If ppl thumbs down for no reason, than thats jus messed up, but most of the time, its usually threads not relating to Lakers forum, or either redundant posts. Thats the only way i see threads being thumbs down

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Hi guys- I have made a minor update to this feature. I have made it so that a member who is not a moderator AND has fewer than 50 positive votes who posts a thread with a -15 rating will not be able to post a new topic for one week. That doesn't mean he can't post, it just means he won't be able to create a new topic for 1 week, dated from the creation of the -15 or lower thread. -15 is a very low rating and very few (less than 0.1%) of the topics have every gotten that score, so chances of this being triggered will extremely rare. If the topic is a news article topic that contains a link, the topic poster will NOT be affected (as described in my original post of this thread).

If you run into any issues with this update please let me know- thanks guys!

Now THAT's what I was hoping for as soon as I saw the thread lol.


Either that or the mods deciding on whether the topic deserved to be there.


Great job Dave.


BTW, this applies for non-mods or for everyone in general?

BTW, this applies for non-mods or for everyone in general?

Why don't we just call this new rule what it is and call it the Anti-MSDS/Anti-Lakerdude rule? Can we all just recognize it for a blatant attempt to censor certain site members?

For some reason I don't have a problem with this. I'm tired of only having the option to talk about Andrew. Great job Dave.

Why don't we just call this new rule what it is and call it the Anti-MSDS/Anti-Lakerdude rule? Can we all just recognize it for a blatant attempt to censor certain site members?

And we've talking about a -15 rating. That's almost impossible to get!


Remember the Drew injury thread which had about 1.3k posts or something???

And censoring any threads sucks in my view.

When there were tons of anti Drew threads on here, I never once wanted or even mentioned to Dave or anyone else to limit or censor them.

It is just a bald faced attempt to silence someone who some people don't agree with. We are free to go to any thread we want read any writer we want and ignore any writer or thread we want. Its very easy. I do it everyday. So do you. And so can anyone else, if they so choose.

There is no need at all to censor a member who does not break the rules. Well there is one, to silence him.

And we've talking about a -15 rating. That's almost impossible to get!

A certain thread reached (-15) votes with about (-7) negative votes in a matter of hours. It is now at -18. Heck, the Kobe vs. Bynum thread is sitting pretty at -22 which happened in like 3 days.

Come one, KS V2, lets keep this real.

Someone said the same thing you did. That 15 would be very hard to get. I said it would happen easy because of the dynamics of the fans here. And it happened in a matter of an hour.

If were gonna talk about this, lets keep it real and not play games.
You know and I know and everyone knows why the 15 is easy to get because of the nature of the threads involved.

It appears people are putting my name on their posts in this thread. I suppose I will only get one thread a week from now on because not too many agree with my positions. It doesn't make them right, but they just don't agree. I guess I'm at a loss on this one. A lot of posters will see someones name on a thread they don't like, and will now fall in line to put a negative next to it. Are threaders, who most don't get along with, being pushed out?

Luckily for me I rarely make more than 2 threads a week, so it shouldn't be an issue for me, but this does seem to be a little unfair to posters who people don't agree with them on their issues. Maybe I should go back to praising Kobe all day like I used to, because that got me votes on this site. Maybe if I did enough of those old threads, I would eventually get past 50 votes and be free to talk about what I want to talk about without fear of being shutdown.