I understand what you guys are saying... But I was talking about a sub-forum that's only accessible to members meeting a post-count standard.
If you guys tried that and weren't successful, then forget what I said.
I've seen it work in forums before. I moderated on breaks.fm before the admin team split up and the whole site began to crumble. We had a very successful music posting thread that was 1) Not visible to non members and 2) Only postable by those beyond a certain post count.
That ensured the absence of spammers.
It became a big selling point for the forum, because it was, obviously, a music forum.
People wanted to be a part of the whole forum because they were able to interact with the people who were giving them advice about their music.
Anyway, I know it's not a dumb idea. I've seen it work.
It just has to be managed properly.
Until the management of such a thing is ironed out, you can't expect anything resulting to work properly.
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