Dealership Experience Section

[Fuyuzora]

Is it just me, or would it be sensible to put in a small barrier before users can post in the Dealership Experience section of the forum? Nothing as drastic as the classifieds, but maybe 10-20 posts?

PRO: This should prevent users (or individuals trying to deceive TM3) from creating new accounts solely to promote or criticize a business... It's very hard to gauge a user's authenticity or credibility when they register only for a singular purpose.

CON: Individuals above could simply make 10 low-value near-spam posts in order to reach the threshold before posting, which is probably worse than the status quo.

Thoughts? :S

EDIT: Son of a- ... Obviously meant to post this in Site Suggestions section and apparently mis-clicked. Could a mod please correct this idiot's mistake?

[boyracer]

Not a bad Idea, I like it.

[peterm15]

100 posts isn't a bad idea. If someone wants to register just to post bs. They will at least have to use the search feature.

[Hyperion]

Often thought this myself

[Hoodzy]

62 posts!

[S.F.W.]

Jeff propose an interesting idea in the admin lounge. Rather than a minimum number of posts, we could use a minimum number of days before a user could post in this section. Thinking 3-5 days, would provide a cooling off period.
Thoughts ?

[peterm15]

Sound good to me.
I do think that should work for all reviews though. I've seen a couple nasty ones for SP as well. I don't think they were from new users but you never know.

[Jackal]

Cooling off period sounds good. Then we won't have someone posting 10-20 +1, meaningless or angry posts just to get to post the same day.