Second suggestion of the day:
Moderators actually do their jobs and you know, moderate the forum, and keep an eye on spammy/stupid/misspelt/inappropriate threads. I know, I know, this is an extremely controversial suggestion that will raise many eyebrows, especially when the main priority is just to punish people you don't like and reward new members for no reason whatsoever, but hey, some of us don't want to go into the MD and find some weird list of video game fetish which is probably a joke. Stop me if I'm wrong, but 'can someone draw me a picture of a dominatrix midna' or whatever the ****, is not really the basis for a discussion. A) If you really want that kind of thing, there is a fan art section they may request things in I suppose and
what kind of discussion is going to arise from this realistically?
P.S. video game fetish stuff is fine, if you're talking about the actual subject, but I really don't see how one person's incessant posting on a subject is a form of discussion, and how all the responses are just spam posts to bump up people's numbers for the competition.