Hey, when the forum started, wasn’t there talk about disallowing new users to post new threads? There is a lot of people who come here with their random syntax ideas, or help in learning the language (one example from today), without knowing any of the details of the language. It would be nice for there to be a barrier to posting, like SOs reputation system.
I originally had it configured such that a minimum trust level was required to create new topics. This just caused issues, and I don’t think it’s a good idea. Part of having a public forum is dealing with poor quality posts.
@cmr was it set to minimum trust level 1 to create new topics? This is pretty easy to achieve (10 minutes reading, enter 5 topics, read 50 posts), and now that you guys have split out the sites the internals site intended for the more technical folks could have slightly more stringent requirements. Up to you though.
We have at least one other customer with the minimum trust level set to 1 to create new posts, bbs.boingboing.net and that goes fine.