I totally agree. There needs to be incentives across the board to increase user engagement and reducing leeching. Members that spend effort to better the community/ecosystem should be rewarded.
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In the mean time definitely flag low effort requests. One of the mods will hide them.
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I think locking it to trust level 1 would make a lot of sense, it’ll mean that people read through a bit more first and get a better feel for the site before they get at it. I always chuckle a little when I see someone new that posts 3 request topics in a row. It’s a sure sign of getting something that can play scripts and being super excited about it.
I think it would also be good overall if new members were encouraged to at least tries to script a short video (1 to 2 minutes long) so that they can understand how the process works. Obviously it’s not something that should be required or anything, but you get what I mean.
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it seems like if we want to lock it down, trust level 2 seems appropriate. Trust level 1 can be gained in about 10 minutes. Trust level 2 takes 1 hr over 15 days.
With the built in moderation tools, we can’t do anything fancy besides select view/reply/create access based on trust level. Unsure if there’s any plugins made to do more complicated stuff
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all been said already but i agree with everything. i’ve only been around for a few months but at the moment 50% of the scripts I’ve posted are req fills because I want to give back to the community. I would hope that “forcing” people to participate in the community will increase the longevity of this community
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Previews are the most common thing that are missing in requests. Can you add links in the request template? To make it more convenient for the requestor consider adding the following two links for how to create previews:
Maybe also this:
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I wish there was also a rule that don’t allow generalised requests without links like “I wish there was more X studio scenes/ I wish there was more scenes with X pornstar”. The whole point of request should be to make it easy for a scripter to make a decision, but instead you can get quickly discouraged from looking into requests category.
Maybe also add at least one link requirement and limit the number of links to 3 or something (it doesn’t help when you see a wall of links either).
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updated the top part of the template. take a look and lemme know
Recently started using this site and it’s amazing! Just found out about this requirement for Script Request and I think it’s a great way to drive engagement!
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Unless the powers-that-be don’t mind having loosey goosey rules on this site (meaning sometimes rules are enforced and sometimes not) I would like to suggest having some mechanism in place about trust level 2 being needed to post in the Script Requests category. My example is what I saw today: I noticed 2 script requests from a TL1 user. I replied to the posts encouraging them to have some active participation on the site and they would quickly get to TL2 and therefore be able to make script requests. Later, I saw another user (TL2 or higher) saw 2 additional script requests from TL1 users and moved them into that category. That seems to defeat the purpose of this rule. I’m not trying be a jerk or anything, especially to the other member who moved the posts…I just would like to see the rule applied the same way every time. Honestly I myself briefly considered moving the 2 posts I saw but then remembered about this topic and checked the posters’ trust level. I would be interested in hearing other thoughts on this.
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currently, @trust_level_3 and @trust_level_4 have the ability to recategorize topics and mods don’t really have the clear visibility to police this easily as far as I can tell.
So I’d just ask everyone to not move requests into #script-requests for people who are not yet trust level 2.
If you disagree with this rule in the first place, then please discuss here
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I agree with the rule and this is what I was hoping I would hear. If (when) someone notices this happening in the future (not everyone is going to be aware of and/or remember this rule) what appropriate actions would you like to see TL3/4 users take?
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perhaps to just politely remind the person that requests are for tl2+ and then flag the post?
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I moved a request the other day and encouraged the requester to add some previews. I didn’t think to check their trust level, sorry about that I’ll be more careful in the future.
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No problem, I almost did the same thing 
I just wanted to get a little more clarity on the rule.
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It’s starting to be an annoyance that so many people post in the wrong category when they can’t post in script request category. Maybe we should consider opening script requests for level 1 members again. Personally I think incorrect postings have become a larger issue than too many script requests.
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just ban rule breaker for 24 or more hours
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Ban or no ban, I still need to flag posts for moderation so from my point of view the problem persists unfortunately. However, I assume a 24h ban might be effective incentive to prevent an individual user from trying to circumvent the rules again.
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Maybe reopen the requests, but give people a limit on how many they can post a day/week? I don’t know how the site works, so I’m not sure if that’s feasible, but I noticed that the biggest thing was people posting 4 or 5 requests in a row all at once.
Also, if there could be some way to force first time users to read a few sentences about properly formatting their requests, that would help a lot too.
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Didnt read any responses… Why not just make the script request section set so that users of such level can create a topic and anyone lower can only reply to topics in that section?
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