I would like see some sort of minimum post count be required before someone can start a new thread. Two reasons:

1) It would stop non-FT or sales threads by renegade posters who have no desire to learn from or contribute to FT. Case in point: Sunday there was a religious thread on MilesBuzz, which was quickly deleted by the moderators. Although I have nothing against the author's viewpoint, FT is not the place for it. Not a biggie in itself, but then there's my pet peeve:

2) I'm sure I'll take some heat on this one - newbie threads. To me, most of the threads I read that are started by newbies (in terms of number of posts) are looking for information that has been covered ad nauseum. Case in point: the number of centurion threads on the Amex forum. Yes, we were all newbies at one time. Some of us tried to learn from the latest threads, or we learned to use the search function, or both. But some people want to be spoon-fed. These threads move other (and, dare I say it, more informative or relevant) threads down the list, a faster-than-necessary bump to the dreaded page 2 of a forum which usually indicates it's close to death. In my opinion, these threads are clogging up the boards.

I'm sure this will strike some as an elitist view (now that I'm over 1,000 posts). I know that over time, I've tended to start fewer threads because I've stayed current with the info here (other than this thread, I've started one thread in the last six months). But I find myself having to wade through a ton of old topics disguised as new threads in order to do it.

Blast away.