Protect our Game Forums

I would like to suggest a safeguard system to help keep trolls out of Gamespot: nothing is more frustrating than seeing a "member" who posts nothing but complaints in nearly every game thread made, yet this "complainer" has absolutely zero games in their profile.

And why is Gamespot allowing members who don't have any games in their collection to post a review on a game? That makes no sense whatsoever. No collection, then you cannot post any reviews: that's the way it should be.

Option 1 (Gamespot-centered):

Make it mandatory to have games in your collection or you're blocked from posting, e.g., if you don't have any PC games, you can't post in the PC forum. You have to have 360 games to post in the Xbox forum, and so on.

Option 2 (Web-centered):

Bioware does this in their forums, btw. You have to have entered your License Key for a game (such as Mass Effect) in order to be allowed to post in Bioware's Mass Effect Forum.

Gamespot could implement a safeguard where a member would have to enter the Serial Number for their hardware (PC, Xbox, PS3 serial number). The servers would check the entered Serial Number against the manufacturer's database. If the check fails, the member cannot post.

Open forums such as Off-Topic and System Wars would not be affected.

What if someone wants to discuss, speculate and build up expectations? Ask for system requirements/recommendations? That's not flood or off-topic. It would have been long-done if such tactics were profitable:

Option 1 is particularly illogical to me. Like you're trying to eliminate fanboysm with one sweep. Trust me, I would do that if I could, but the feedback will be horrible, many users will be lost.

I think the first option would just confuse folks that legitimately want to post...And if people wanted to troll a forum and knew all they had to do was add a game, they would do it and continue trolling until being struck by the banhammer. The 2nd option is fine for a forum like Bioware, but in practice here, I don't see it working. I wouldn't want to fish out my serial number to post somewhere. Again, it would turn away too many legit users. I just don't see either as viable options for keeping trolls away, I see them more as deterrents for everyone.spazzx625

Okay spazzx, let's look at the idea of eliminating alt accounts: only GS Staff should have them, anyway. Allowing alt accounts just opens the door for people that have bad feelings against Gamespot (like D_S, for example).