# Should Discourse require reading to gain initial trust?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-discourse-require-reading-to-gain-initial-trust/5081
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [2013 年3 月 22 日 18:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-discourse-require-reading-to-gain-initial-trust/5081 "2013-03-22T18:04:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@saper](https://meta.discourse.org/u/saper)
#### Post date: [2015 年5 月 16 日 02:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-discourse-require-reading-to-gain-initial-trust/5081/42 "2015-05-16T02:22:28Z")
Thank you - yes, I figured it out later. So [gradle.org](http://gradle.org) definitely needs to enabled linked reply for new users (to dig out “Old Forum” posts).
Having linked reply disabled is just “for the UI to be less confusing” rather than “permission denied” ?
Is there a config setting to enable **Reply as new topic in the right gutter** for the new users?
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### Author:  [@Arjan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arjan)
#### Post date: [2016 年4 月 30 日 13:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-discourse-require-reading-to-gain-initial-trust/5081/43 "2016-04-30T13:17:36Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> > [@davidmiller](#):
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> > […] typically when I’m researching a topic for the first time I will come across forums in search results which I will read before wanting to post. […] I don’t like creating accounts unnecessarily, and most forums only require users to be logged in for posting (not for reading). If I did this on a Discourse forum, I would lose my ‘reading credit’.
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> Fair point, but the reading barrier […] is intentionally easy to achieve, but not _so_ easy that you can do it trivially right after signing up and then turn around and engage in shenanigans with a bunch of sockpuppet accounts.
Some years have passed since the above was posted April 2013; am I right to assume that pre-registration activity is still not taken into account?
(When a new user is blocked from posting, appearing on `/queued-posts`, their activity seems to indicate they just registered and immediately tried to create a new topic without even browsing around for a bit. In other words: it seems blocked users always have very low values for “Topics Viewed”, “Posts Read”, “Read Time” and “Days Visited”. But like @davidmiller wrote: if someone anonymously reads many topics but still cannot find what they’re looking for, then creating a new topic right after registering might not be strange. Of course, I understand tracking/matching pre-registration activity might be troublesome, so I’m merely trying to interpret the activity metrics.)
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