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Originally Posted by Koir
You have good ideas in the rest of the post except for this part. If it does get implemented, it will immediately separate the active members into "the elite" and "the plebians". Sure, the chosen few established members will have a private area to discuss matters that are important to them, but the rest of the forum will still be subject to the same name-calling and threads going down in flames for the usual reasons in addition to calls of "elitism" annd favoured opinions.
At worst, it will change the forums into a large group of the "lower class" of posters constantly railing against the "higher class" who have access to an exclusive forum area where they can discuss things among themselves to much agreement and derision against those who cannot respond in kind because they are not "favoured" enough to do so.
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A forum I used to frequent had a serious discussion area and none of this elite hating thing ever happened. But the restrictions were 100 posts and been a member for more than a week. And even if you didn't meet the criteria you could still read the threads, just not join in.
ETA: I think 1000 is too steep. It would personally take me 6-12 months to reach that high only because I read more than I interact. Took me forever to just make an account here.