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But wouldn't that create more spam? As people would want to make more money they would post more pointless posts. I know that the staff got rid of post counts quite a while ago due to spam.
I'm not saying it's a bad idea, it's a great idea. I'm just wary of the post count thing.
- Rexy
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Well, we still have postcounts, so I don't know quite what you're talking about in that regard.
I think that, quite possibly, somewhere at the back of your mind, you're worried that this whole shop hack thing would "legalise" spamming, and moderators would be so swamped with spam that they wouldn't be able to do anything about it anyway.
The fact is that, while it's possible and has happened on some forums that have lax rules and use shop hack variants, I've NEVER, not even once seen spam on a forum that uses shop hack while at the same time having a strict no spam policy. Spam generally means money removal, warnings, and bannings, and therefore any spammers hoping to make lots of cash will soon find out that their clever scheme will bring them nothing other than a swift boot to the crotch. If people want to make lots of money, they need to be REALLY decent members who make lots of good contributions to the forums - so long as those contributions are properly spelled and interesting, then that's all that matters. Spamming is the fast way to get yourself into "virtual overdraft" as it were.
The shop hack system does not reward bad behaviour if the moderators patrol the forums like they're supposed to, and in fact the shop hack system would allow moderators another form of punishment (money removal) for misbehaving.