[Al the Vykker]

Dear Staff/Members of OWF,

Note: This was originally posted by myself in the Employee Lounge. The staff has voted on the topic, but we also need all member feedback. The rest of the staff will probably copy over any posts in EL, that they wish to be part of the discussion, and also show their own decisions.

It has come to my attention and to most of the members and staff, that we have a problem that has worsened in the past couple of weeks, and now hit a peak at the current time. New members are constantly spamming, even memers here for the past few months. This either is poor following or failure to read forum rules, or just a way they feel they can boost their ranking on these forums, by boosting their post counts to look "cool". Well seeing that they will not stop, and even though they have been warned they dont seem to listen. I have a radical idea to attack them from the very idea that makes them believe they are going to be better than anyone else. I propose the following:


I believe we should get rid of the post count reader under peoples names. I believe that if possible the post count should be put inside the members user cp, so that they can know how many posts they have but it is not shown to the whole community.

We can still have rankings from Slurg to whatever still, but the post count is invisible to the community as a whole but then if the member wishes to see how close they are to say being a Vykker Scientist they still can.

I feel that this is a first step in getting rid of our spam problem. I hope you agree. But if you dont I would also like to have your feedback. I was looking through a few other forums I found, and they oringinally had post counts and now they no longer have and its helped them get rid of their spam problems and problems througout the ranks. thankyou for reading the previous suggestion.

Please feel free to give feedback, and if you have a question about anything I said in here feel free to ask me.

-Sincerely Al the Vykker FC Mod