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Originally posted by CoachJM
Include a "rules test" as a part of the registration process - a fairly difficult one, but not ridiculously so. A "passing grade" would be required before the registrant would be authorized to post on the board. This would do a couple of things. First the "happened to be in the neighborhood" crowd wouldn't even take the time to complete the test and would just "bounce" to another website that turned up in their Google search. For those who did take the time to complete the test, it would provide a mechanism to weed out those who would be "in over their heads" on this board. I am quite confident that the membership of this board would be able to come up with a suitable test in a matter of hours (if not minutes) and it would be a trivial technical task to include the test as part of the registration process.
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That is not a bad idea. The only problem is that on this website, when you register, you are able to post to boards about a variety of sports. If a rugby official wants to join the board, he should not have to take a baseball rules test. Possibly when one registers, he could be prompted to which forums he wishes to post too, and he could take a test regarding those specific sports. That might only be needed for the baseball forum, so mabye the test should be required before posting only for baseball.
I think that mabye the test, coupled with a waiting period before one can post, mabye 10 days or so after registering would also help out a lot. The waiting period whould greatly decrease the number of people who come here to post one simple question on the first day they register, and then never return. If they see that they can't post here for 10 days, they will likely take their post to eteamz. Any quality poster would not mind having to wait 10 days before posting in order to weed out the bad posts.