Originally Posted by
arn
This encourages spamming the forums... I mostly only browse the exploration section, and when I find new things ingame I check to see if it's been posted before. If it has, I do not post, because there's no point in reposting.
Considering this rule though, it appears the morons who're posting "faces" or dicks created in texture patterns are the good members of the forums, while the people like myself who stfu because we have nothing new to say are bad, wicked people doing nothing but steal your precious, precious bandwidth.
Encourage people to contribute, for sure. Removing signatures and avatars from people who don't post is all well and good. But removing things like the search feature, which actively aids me in determining whether or not to post something seems counter-intuitive, since it will result in more people, posting more rubbish, which leads to more bandwidth charges.
But then, considering you're adding more ads, I'm guessing you won't really care.