...LOL?  So, if people go double post happy after this, they'll be screwed over even worse if they prov that the community can't control themselves? 

   That....or we'll see the beginning of alts being made to post another idea where the previous one is done (like many other forums I've seen that use the double post absorbtion thing) 

   ...Should we add in the FAQ about alternate accounts.  Sounds like a waste of space if we have people make multiple accounts.  Just forseeing some people's response to their thread being eaten by the forum pages of doom.

Well I wouldn't say screwed over exactly, more a sort of wait and see.

The majority of people want this and I recognize it's not a one sided point, so we'll go with the majority for now and see what happens, however if indeed as happened a few years ago people go nuts with short pointless posts we may indeed have to think again and maybe install the extention.

Ditto with alts, we've never had rules about it sinse it's never been an issue, but if it does, we'll make a rule, though sinse mods can view members' Ip's, it'd be pretty hard to hide one in any case, and probably pointless to try, plus actually imho rather a lot of work for a very small result.

I've actually setup (and then instantly deleted), a couple of alternate accounts myself on occasions with my private mail address just to test the forum signup or antispam newbie measures, and it really struck me the time it would take filling in the form, waiting for the new signup mail etc is really quite a lot just to bump a topic back up to the list, ---- especially when you can just create a new topic to discuss whatever the issue is in a fraction of the time.

Thus, while I know there are places where alternate accounts are a problem, it's never been one here, and frankly I don't really see why anyone would bother!

Well I gave up on gamefaqs after there seemed to be more topics discussing hentai than actual games, and the only other mainstream gaming site forums I've used was the mega man network which was very well moderated.

Certainly all the indi game forums I've been on tend to be okay.

I would go for that.
Of course, since the rule was voted out, no point in worrying about it unless the issue comes up again.

I'm not in favour of that idea Alex, sinse for a start moderators don't necessarily read every! topic on the forum, just those we're interested in (which is a lot), and any that have been reported as dodgy.

I wouldn't therefore like a suggested reason system sinse it'd be hell to keep in check, far harder than the old double posting rule.

We'll see how having no rule at all works, and if there is a problem we could always try James' extention which would solve the problem by removing any and all double posting.