Anti-Leeching

[Saedusii]

It is five rep, not five posts.

Reputation is the token of appreciation you get when you contribute.

You have 0 rep power, which is the amount you can give to people.

And 1 reputation point, which you begin with.

[billybobbo]

....bad idea

[[Soul Eater]]

Lawl why bumping up this topic? And why bad idea? Because you can't leech then anymore?

Well I read all the comments, and tbh, even tho leechers can't click or download links, they still will leech other things, like scamming guides, ingame exploits, tips, online guides etc.

That's why if we really want MMowned to be a better place (=a place where people actually contribute and don't leech everything and getting everything nerfed, and stealing free accounts e.g) , leechers SHOULD be banned.

Now I know it will cause havoc and such, but here's the deal. There exists many leechers, even leechers coming from October 2006. Maybe it's not best wise to ban them immediately, but give them a sort of "trial" . Leechers just start normal as always, with 1 rep and 0 rep power. Each month count as a countdown limiting up till 3. For example:

billybobbo joins MMowned on Novembre 2007.
Billybobbo didn't contributed in that month and just leeched.
Next month on Decembre, billybobbo can't watch text that are wrapped in code(example, this is sort of punishment)

billybobbo still haven't contributed in Decembre, and is still leeching.
It's January, and billybobbo still haven't contributed, billybobbo can't click or DL or see links (again, idea of punishment)

Now there are 2 possible ways, either way, billybobbo will just leave MMowned because he can't do anything. Or other way is that he stays on MMowned and just leech the non-wrapped text and exploits.

billybobbo haven't contributed in 3 months, so that's a lot of time and he only leeched. So billybobbo last punishment = Banned
, because it is for sure that he doesn't intend to actually contribute and just wanted to leech.

Of course, the duration of the trial (if this idea is accepted that is) depends on the admin. I just only give a few examples of how it can maybe done, I don't know if it is actually possible to do something like this but o well, this is my thought on it.

And yes, I used billybobbo as a example on purpose because I just hate it when a leecher from 2007 says "bad idea" to something that can limit the leecher space, else he wouldn't be able to leech anymore.

[Innit]

This is never going to happen in my opinion.

Matt set this up as a site where it prouded itself on never having to register and pay, you CAN pay now but that is out of the pure goodness of your heart

Anyway, I would agree with this, but you can just post your stuff in the Contrib Section/Shared.

If your stuff is really good, it will be moved to the Elite sections, where no doubt you will make 50+ rep seeing at most Contribs + have 2+ rep powar.

[-Lex]

i stick with the lex solution - delete them all.

[Viter]

i stick with the lex solution - delete them all.

how do you then want new members to come?

[spleen]

I think that's unfair on some people because i have 3 rep (nothing really) but I try to make good contributions and useful comments, I just can't think of decent ideas for scams, guides, hacks or w/e. There is no rep given out for helpful comments and considering virtually everything has already been posted here, it's very hard for some people to get +rep.

[Clovian]

I think the whole lazy leecher system is a mistake. should be less rep needed to get out imo. because some try to contribute but dont get rep. like the one above me who has 3 rep.