smudge wrote:
I wasn't getting angry at Alex, just annoyed that there isn't this basic system in place at least to deter them. It would stop them. I think lots of people have left because of the issues with this website.
Fine, OPs then.
Why wouldn't they start replying to existing threads if they were stopped from making OPs? Other forums don't restrict it to just OPs.
Don't understand your point.
All that I am saying is that lets respond to the problem at hand.
If you restricted all posts to two a day (a) it would be a sacrifice -many of us make more than five posts a day, but (b) restricting original posts would NOT be a sacrifice. I myself don't start three original posts in a whole year. So restricting me to three a day would not be a sacrifice. And it probably wouldn't be a sacrifice to you or to most folks.
The agent that's doing this appears to be a dumb bot that just works automatically. No human is actively posting. So there is no reason to think that it would be nimble enough to change its tactics like a chess player. Not in the short run. So just restricting OPs would probably fix it. The humans behind the bot might (if they think that WP is a worthwhile target) might in the long run reprogram it to intrude into existing threads. So we can wait until then to up the ante in response.