Thread:RubyTheMaster/@comment-4750363-20130605200748/@comment-4332975-20130612144329

I think, though, that doesn't really address the problem, Nights. We've had people that have been around forever and never seem to get any brighter, while other users post something damn near brilliant, and never post again. Case in point; Stormlilly almost didn't register at all and tried to erase Fanatics, due to anon users having their IPs shown. It was only luck that I noticed that a) the content had been removed by its author, and b) that it was actually very good, and thus was able to convince a quite excellent author to make and account and stick around. If we blocked new members from posting, we'd miss some of those really good pages, and just have people spamming up the site to reach their quota as quickly as possible. It only makes sense to do it for CPOTM voting, since that's something that really shouldn't be your first contribution to the site, and because of the cheating we've had.