Both myself and Grav had came up with the idea of making it where you have to have like 5 posts before you can use the arcade or something, but honestly, it wouldn't help anything.
For instance, draco and his friends were just looking for a place to play games in class. If they came here and couldn't, they would have just gone somewhere else. It's a good idea in theory but in practice it wouldn't do anything but make our activity problem worse.
I did suggest that the arcade do a check to see if the person visiting has any posts, and if the person has 0 posts, give them a little message encouraging them to come join the community, and if they choose not to they can continue playing like they want.
There should be hidden games that you can only get at certpain postcount levels. Of course, our new super duper highly needed sup mod can help the old staff keep these people in check for spam.
There should be hidden games that you can only get at certpain postcount levels. Of course, our new super duper highly needed sup mod can help the old staff keep these people in check for spam.
What purpose would that serve?
I honestly don't think forcing people to join the forum to access the arcade or to access limited games is a good way to get them to start posting here. What does that accomplish?
Because it would offer all of the currently games now, just EXTRA ones as a bonus. NOthing would be taken away. Some people may want to unlock these new games and start posting and find out that they like the place.
Noones going to force anyone to do anything. We'd just go out of our way to find new games, and in return we'd ask for the players to go a little out of theirs and post.