Bookwyrm627: Would you feel better if I gave an example that I've actually seen? Here: "I have a bunch of different questions about this game that I want to ask. I'll ask them in different threads so the various answers don't get confused by cross-answering, so I can mark the various questions as answered individually, and so that some questions/answers don't get lost in the shuffle."
Yes, please link to this example.
Bookwyrm627: The spammer can just wait for one of the sales and spend $10 to buy games for 100 accounts using a $0.10 game (and if one of these games is a loss leader for the sale, then GOG may well be
losing money).
Please show these $0.10 games...I must have missed them in the past.
Bookwyrm627: This thread creation limit would be horrendously frustrating for users and it is barely a speed bump for spammers. Don't harm legit users,
especially impressionable newbies that you're trying to attract, while trying to solve the spammer problem with bad solutions.
It would not harm legit users. That's just your claim. But it would fend off spammers.
Why don't you give me examples of legit users opening three+ threads/day?
Just use today, or yesterday, or this whole week as an example.
Bookwyrm627: Rando newbie
might find the answer, or the answer might be buried some unknown number of pages back. That assumes the answer to their specific question exists on the forum at all.
Yes, let's assume the answer exists, many answer to questions that get asked in the general forum actually exist in the dedicated forum for the game in question.
Also: most of the dedicated game forums aren't that long, and despite not being the best search function around, it actually helps, if you search for certain key words.
Newbies can look them up. We all did at some time.
One thing I noticed with every single of your forum replies: you never give any solutions, you only come with "reasons", why the solutions proposed by others wouldn't work - in your eyes.
And to "prove" your points, you always come with made up arguments, that don't occur in real life.
What is it that you fear so much about any change to the existing system and all its flaws?