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Originally posted by EvilSeph
A spammer can just as easily get a high rank as yourself, Billy.

Think about it, yes they are spamming. But what if they do it in a way that it doesn't seem like actual spam, but they are. Most of the senior members and up notice it and get annoyed by it, INCLUDING yourself. I mean, its not fair if someone sits their providing quality posts bustin their ass off just to get a nice rank to prove they are helpful. When a spammer can do it in half the time and just has to make things up.

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Or. Keep the ranks remove the post counts and the staff decide who to promote and who to not, though same situation arouses, where people are singled out.

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Sorry, had to pick that out.

Yes, they are spamming, and people like Joseph get punished for that. He lost 60%-70% of his post count for spamming and that should be enough of a warning for anyone. No one can really sit there for hours getting up to my level by posting complete rubbish without people noticing, it's easy to do once or twice but you can't get 500 posts that way. I doubt you could get 50. Joseph himself found that out.

Well, the next idea's fine, as long as the staff can be bothered - could you honestly sit there looking through a forum full of posts and give people ranks on it? Plus, there are complications: would T&T/GCC be counted? Would staff be biased in some way? Would time between posts come into effect?

I really don't think there is any need to change the system. Spammers get punished and admins, no matter how good, will not sit filing through tens of thousands of members.