That's why I was putting the number up for debate. In retrospect, it should definitely be higher. If we get the limit higher up, surely a mod will notice 30 or even 50 posts of rapid-gear spamming. And I really don't think anyone after 30 posts will still be as ungreened as to post a thread asking for a beatmap request. This is really just there not to minimize the shit threads (as I said, every user makes a bad thread sometimes) but to minimize the number of threads we have to deport to the wasteland and leave with a single link to another topic. Bad content would also partially filtered if we up the number, since I doubt any troll would have the attention span to make 30 DECENT posts (I say decent so you don't go off thinking these posts are gonna be just like their threads they make now, because modqueue meets them long before that) and still make a shit thread after that. I think it would be effective, but the best way to find out is to implement it.
This isn't around to stop the purposeful trolls, they don't need to start a thread to get people unnerved. Thiis is about those people who just don't care to do the research. If we don't give them an outlet to outright fling their question into open air and hope someone pops around to answer it, they'll be sort of forced to contact someone who knows about it, or search on their own on the website.