In light of a recent trend - threads going completely off the wall, "new" members throwing around misinformation, etc., I had a couple thoughts that I wanted to share and get feedback and also provide a place for input, should any of you have some.

A lot of "new" users can just pop in here and start doling out advice. Is it possible to have a period of time after a person signs up before they have free reign to post anywhere in the forums? This will force new users to do some reading and become oriented with the forums, search functions, and other modules, before they start posting bad info they've learned elsewhere and asking the same questions over and over again.

Ok, so now you are thinking this: What about new users with an emergency question or new users (like corey woods who signed up today, WELCOME!) who hatch out bumblebees and post up eye candy for everyone? Answer: A "new users" forum for those people to introduce themselves, ask those emergency questions, or post pics of cool stuff. Keep in mind these new users should still be able to view all those forums, just not post in them. I guarantee that if all these new people spent 5 minutes browsing through the forums, they'd find at least 1 or 2 threads addressing their exact question.

I've never run a forum, so feel free to smack me down if you want, its just an idea that had enough merit to throw out there.