Originally Posted by
armagebedar
That is a shame, and a simple fix would be to only allow members with a certain number of posts / tenure / etc. to view such a thread/forum. If this system works for Coupon Connection, why can't it work elsewhere?
What's to prevent someone who is trying (knowingly or unknowingly) to "kill" the deals from getting to x posts and y days of membership fairly quickly, thereby gaining access to the special forum, and would just go about their business again? And how would you know if someone that was doing something to "kill" the deals didn't already have the x posts and y days met, so they could access it already?
This was the exact same argument when creating a forum inside Mileage Run with an x posts/y days restriction was debated here in the TB Topics forum a while back, and subsequently was not adopted. There were other factors as well, but this seemed to be the biggest reason to not create such a forum.