100th post in this thread :d
Let's face it, the only reason people come to this site is RuneScape cheating. Of course there might be WoW cheating, but we'll stick to RuneScape Cheating for now. The black market is the main attraction to this website because people want to buy and sell their gold.
If you think about the majority of RuneScape players, there's going to be people who scam, and people who rwt. I personally believe that there are MANY more people who scam than rwt. Therefor making a huge concentration of these forum members scammers. Some are well known, repeat offenders... And some are just little 13 year old fuckfaces breaking trust.
We need to make the black market a privilege. Right now it's open to anyone; scammers, jagex employees, and even our parents. I think, and Im sure many of you would agree, that if the Black Market was a members only section whereas you need an account + certain number of post count you will gain access to it, we will decrease traffic in the Black Market which is mostly spammers and scammers anyway. I think that although this might cause a few problems, the fact that it will reduce scammers and such will greatly outweigh the problems.
Not only an account & post count required, but a specific date as well. This will not only repel scammers and make it MUCH more difficult to repeatedly scam, but now you can't just make an account anymore and scam, it requires much more than that. I also think this will reduce the amount of idiots we have.
I know that these are all on the 'do no suggest list', but I don't really see why. This forums going downhill and we have way to many scammers, I don't see what it will hurt.
I am highly supportive of this suggestion, however we need to work out a few bugs. You guys are right with you "less scam, more spam" theory but I think we can work around it. Such as a combination of post count AND join date. Obviously people can just make new accounts and spam to each other, but I think this will give the moderators a chance to do less moderation with scammers and deal with more spammers.
Of course along with this new addition you could enforce a spamming rule. Crack down on it, and enforce a Post Per Day restriction to spammers.