consider the attention given to this thread....
http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/45...-flatmate.html
this person only made 1 - ONE single post about music, and it was a copy and paste job for some favourite lyrics. no mention of why or anything of the sorts. just CTRL+C and then CTRL+V. then an obvioius 'look at me' thread, that still gets attention.
there's a thread for tech support. there's still one for introductions. while i freely admit to having trolled the thread i didn't really think it would be allowed to become three pages of trolls.
i understand mods want to be welcoming to noobs but noobs also have to be shown where the lines are. the idea of rules on the front page is laughably absurd. who reads them on joining? the vast majority of the rules are common sense and if you've signed up for any website in the past you've probably already read the exact same document a dozen times. is a spammer going to give a crap about the 'rules'? a noob that would become a worthwhile member?