bansama: It would be a very good start in discouraging people from replying and in preventing an overflow of spam being on the front page (after all locked topics will soon drop off the front page). But yes, on it's own it wouldn't be enough. What we need as well, sadly, is some form of post limits x topics per day dependent on amount of rep. (when negative) and age of account (when rep. is positive).
Well, the notion that any teen can stroll in here, make a couple of morronic posts and force a change on the boards it's really hard for me to stomach.
In little over one year we had a single twat that couldn't take a hint. I'd prefer that gog's staff would deal with that twat and be done it with (even if it warrants a temp ban or if even after that he still doesn't take a hint, a permanent one), than allowing him to take credit for changing the way things work around here.
But i can see how others may feel different.
Edit: That idea of a limit on the daily posts sounds good.