We discussed the use of a forum for the "I'm new" threads mainly, and the idea that rised is that it would end in a spam forum where nobody actually cares about who is posting what. Also, having a spam forum won't stop spam elsewhere. Spam calls spam, I saw that at other boards, and the result isn't pretty, unless you make very strict rules and enforce them.
I mean, having some games like "this or that" every once in a while is okay, but if people just want to spend time, they should better go out and play football/basket/soccer/whatever. Or find another board made for spam. Or something. We got rid of post counts more than a year ago to prevent spam, I'd find it not very clever to make a spam fest forum
