More carrot, less stick - where off-topic threads created by non-donating members are concerned.
Problem: New blood routinely posts on subjects that are not specifically hammock related. The posts get moved resulting in a bad experience for the new visitor, who otherwise should be appreciating their honeymoon period with HF. They think the forum is broken, that they are being persecuted, and they resent the apparent deletion of their posts. Some certainly move on without getting to the bottom of what happened or upgrading to "donating" status. Friendly folks at HF continue to answer their questions despite the fact that they OP has been effectively severed from their own thread. Since the questions are often beginner questions, the value of the thread to other donating members may not be high. Everybody's time may effectively be wasted.
Solution(?): Is there a way to allow an original poster to see the threads they started regardless of what subforum they end up in? Allowing that to occur would give them a way to get at their posts even if the thread was moved behind the paywall, while still restricting them from seeing or participating in the giant archive of non-hammock threads. There would still be the carrot (lots of great threads if you donate), but not the stick (we moved your thread and now it is held hostage until you pay).
It would help donating members too, because we'd be less inclined to waste our time answering questions when nobody is home OR ignore those newbie posts that land behind the paywall because we don't think our responses will be received by the OP.
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