Hello. I can no longer access MM. After reading this entire thread, I am led to believe the reason for this is that I'm a leech who is contributing absolutely naff all towards the community. I've tried to pick sense out of nonsense in this thread, but despite people's efforts to justify this change, I've not read a single reasonable explanation of why a fix was required for something that didn't seem broken.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I see that this rule was maybe created in private, by a group of unpaid volunteers some time ago, potentially without consulting the wider community, and that it is now being implemented via automation.
For all you budding Ethics Philosophers out there, in this scenario, is the MM access a carrot to encourage posting more often, or is the removal of access to the MM a stick to force you to post?
Throwing myself into the meatgrinder, I've been a forum member for about 20 years, made over 14,000 posts in a short period, and went to great lengths to illustrate my posts. I could easily spend 30 minutes on just one single post, so I didn't just spam my way to 14k. It took me 20 mins to write just this one single post. Even though I am heading towards old age, I still love my PC hardware, so buy or sell something on the OcUK Members market at least once a year on average. I think I've had close to 100 transactions and never had a problem. Deffo has been a nice place to buy/sell decent-priced hardware for the past 20 years.
I can't meet the minimum requirements because I don't like to post anymore. I find some people's posts unnecessarily offensive, verging on potentially toxic behaviour which doesn't make nice reading. Even in this thread, I can see a few unmoderated individuals trying to provoke an emotional response, in a simple discussion about forum rules. This is a general internet problem really, and not aimed at OcUK forums being more toxic than the average web hangout.
I would argue that in my time, I was very active and I would like to think I made a meaningful contribution to the OcUK forums by helping beginners overclock their INTEL/AMD systems and also speccing them new builds using all OcUk parts. I always received plenty of thanks from the individuals I helped, which was enough, but the amount of unmoderated ad hominem thrown against me from others was unreal, even from the forum mods themselves, which eventually led me to quit posting.
We normally honour our veterans for their previous service, but here we see OcUK stripping them of any privilege they may have earned during their lifetime unless they return to active duty.
I hope you will consider removing this MM requirement to spam the forums once a certain amount of posts are made. I support changes that make the forums safer but I'm not seeing that in this example.
Apart from that, Happy New Year, I hope 2024 is a good one!
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