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When you say honeypot do you mean preventing newbies from posting in forums other than the honeypot? Would they be allowed to view the discussions by current members in other forums?
This might be a neat idea to prevent people who could otherwise be classified as spammers from entering the forum. The only drawback would be about who regulates if your accepted or not? I joined this forum after viewing the threads for a few months and seeing how much higher the maturity level and intelligence factor is hear than on all the other forums I have participated. People who regularly paticipate in Cellar disscusions, for the most part, actually have useful and and intelligent things to say. If I had to engage in some sort of "approval" forum beforehand to gain acceptance by the "upper" members I probably would have just left thinking of this place as some sort of elitist social club for those with too much free time on their hands. But being allowed to participate just because I can has changed that view greatly.
I definitely see the point of a so called honeypot to prevent messed up people from destroying and otherwise intelligent conversation (i.e. r9/cuddles/april/whoever the hell this person really is). Seeing posts like those remind of the unmoderated MSN forums, something that the Cellar is clearly not. But how do you suggest this honeypot would work? As a newbie myself I'm asking.
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