Fill their screen with a giant ascii mushroom cloud if they hit a submit button in any thread other than the "introduce yourself" thread for their first post. Rinse and repeat until they figure it out, or give up and lurk. Kind of like a mouse in a maze.
Or ask "dude/dudette, are you human and do you like music? Well share your music and say hi" and most newbies still only lurk. It is very little effort. You can like Bieber and we will appreciate the diversity (he has gotten better thankfully).
Perhaps, though, the purpose of giveaways and using SBAF as an outlet for SDR is to increase membership. A consequence of this is the risk of attracting parasites.
If there is benefit to SBAF in increased numbers alone, perhaps the relationship is more symbiotic.
Read these "rules" AND introduce
yourself before your first post
Being true to what the artists intended
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