In my opinion, new members should not be able to request as of the day they join. Requests should be an earned privilege so at the very least they should have to wait a minimum of 1 month before being allowed to request. In an ideal world, the number of requests would be a tiered system based on membership time span but since duration of membership does not necessarily equal contribution to the site and/or participation this would not be ideal either. It is quite obvious to me a significant amount of requests are from new members. To make matters worse, many join, request several the same day and never come back (no doubt having downloaded a bunch before moving on). Having fulfilled a request or two in my time here, I can easily say that probably more than half of rewards removed by mods for non-payment are from new members who have joined, requested and haven't returned to the site since.
Thanks in advance for your consideration of this issue
Thanks in advance for your consideration of this issue