lol the premium sounds like pgh with different benefits.

And i guess you're right. most of the people that have or might get 5k points have some common sense, and even if they dont there will be a warning so they cant say they "didnt know"

on a completely unrelated note, im thinking about going back into karate. do you guys know any type that is better than the others?

In my humble opinion:

1. There will always be more cheat users than makers.
Out of those 68500 "inactive" 0 post accounts on flashcheats, how many of those logged in once a week or more?

2. With respect to hacks, the current system is perfectly fine.
Most of the badged games are hacked anyway. There's little merit in encouraging people to post hacks for newly-badged games when it's already this competitive.

3. What do you expect the new points/account lock system to do?
What's stopping people from visiting random pages and clicking working/not working without actually checking the game? Or you might actually start to see desperate or lazy users submit fake AOBs for extremely old games that few people would check. Kind of like the reason you don't pay people to donate blood, which is because you'd attract illicit drug users low on money who are also a lot more likely to have hepatitis and HIV.

And I don't know how the user database works, but what's the difference between a whole lot of locked accounts and a lot of 0 post accounts?

And this. ^

4. The points awarded seem quite arbitrary.
Trying out 4b*1, 4b*8, etc gives the same points as producing an AOB for an obfuscated game with root variables and it doesn't seem fair.

My suggestion is to keep it as it is. Or if you must prune the "inactive" users, delete <11 post or <1 hack accounts that haven't logged in for over a year. (Or some low number like that.) Allow them to sign up again using the exact same email address and username if they want to. Points-wise, don't deduct anything. Instead, display it underneath the username as a sort of powerlevel or something. Privileges like premium account and customizable title automatically unlock by having a minimum number of points.

On a side note, TIM, did you/will you move over the .sols posted on flashcheats?

And I'm a little technologically impaired, but where's the button to view post history?

I like the idea. As long as I don't need to post every day in order not to get banned... I hope log in will also get some points!

Keep up the good work TIM!

As it has mostly been said already, my fear in regards to the idea of needing to post for points is that people will just post for the sake of keeping their account and not be posting anything inheritly helpful. It is nice when chat happens because there is reason for it, not just because the wind is blowing that day. I think it is fair to say that if someone has not accessed the site in a long while (whatever you determine that time frame to be) then they can be tossed into the inactive account pile.

In my opinion, rewarding for posting instead of punishing for not posting is a better means of encouraging activity.

I know over the many years I have been on these forums, I have not personally talked too much. Regardless of my social skills, I have read a lot and learned a lot - from how to sift through code, to how to recognize what things are, to figuring out what they do in a game, etc - so thank you KongHack team and its users!

That is really easy compared to the rest of what you want to do =P

Okay I think it's safe to say that announcing this was a really bad idea to be honest because in the past 3 days, there has been a significant increase in necroing of threads, all of which have been of accounts with very few post counts, saying stuff that has already been mentioned in the thread, I think what should just be done is, if an account has not been accessed in 90 days, an automated email should be sent out, then after 6 months of no activity (ie not logging in) then it should just be locked and when they do return they just need to enter a key which would unlock the account.

All this banning and stuff is great for database cleanup but quite controversial since there's so many legitimate reasons for not logging on, unless if someone was to be gone a long time, they could always message the staff about it and let TiM put a note on the system or something like that to prevent account lock/ban

a script that deletes the bounce when you change your email *cough* ;)

0 post accounts were not migrated.

It should clear the warning, but I won't remove the actual bounces from the account. This way I can keep track of things. ;)