Community Moderation

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:25 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

This method seemed to help youtube clean up some of the spams on video comments so there's some hope.

I don't know, however, how helpful it'll be in helping reduce the workload for the admins; I have a feeling they'll be constantly be informed of new posts to delete.

Good luck with this plan though.

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:50 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I don't think it's necessary to inform mods and admins over and over. When the thread disappear after a certain amount of posts, mods will see it in their "MOD panel" and make the decision to delete the posts or not. They wouldn't need to be informed over and over again by PMs unless there's like a mistake of some sort. If there's like both voting and sending messages, then it would be double work - not cutting back. *shrugs*

About the threas appearing afterwards or not, I think just make it disappear or people will ask about it, etc. I know that there are no idiots around here or at least I hope not, but maybe new members or people who are unfamiliar with the system will ask out of curiosity and then the whole thing will start up again with the headaches, etc.

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:20 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

it's not whole threads disappearing that we're talking about, but single "voted off" posts...
i don't think people are inclined to ask after them, i would think people would more likely ask if a blank message stayed up, but even then i doubt it...

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:41 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I'm also not very keen on the part where the original owner of the thread is allowed sole control of his/her thread. IMO, that would somewhat negate the 10 votes option.

Otherwise, the entire idea sounds pretty good to me though I'm not sure implementing this system would make this job any easier for the mods/staff members...wells, at least not at the very beginning.

Hopefully, this new system might cut down on the flaming in threads and the ever-growing offensive posts.

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:02 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

How about the owner of the thread vote counts as +2/-2 ?

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:24 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I agree with the community modding.
5 is a good way to start and thread owner +2/-2 sounds good too.

I haven't really read through all of the posts here, but will mods be able to see who voted?
I think we should have that feature to stop suspicious activity as well. Mr. Green

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:14 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:55 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Hmm... Am I the only one who finds it ironic that I haven't been around much lately and the flame wars have actually gotten higher? I would have thought it'd be the other way around....

I definitely like the idea of the community being able to vote off certain posts, but what's to prevent the same poster from just reposting the same thing again and again if they so choose, starting the "vote count" all over again and wasting everyone's time yet again? I seem to recall a certain jackass a while back who went back and got, uh, creative, with the fansubber's wiki and I ended up spending quite a bit of time going back and removing all the little homosexual pics, etc.... Would an idea like restricting someone whose post has been voted off from posting back in that topic be difficult to implement? Or an automatic 1 or 2 week ban from posting at all in the forums? Just a few thoughts.

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:36 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

A ban sounds good if s/he posts sth annoying again. But banning someone after one post? That's too harsh. I mean maybe s/he wants to apologize and can't even do that then. So maybe a warning after a second "off voted" post would be good. and if s/he gets a 3rd vote within a certain time then get banned for some time. However there are a lot of idiots who simply create new accounts to complain or start trouble again if there actual account is banned. So don't know if banning someone actually helps.

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:41 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I don't believe in auto-banning people. If someone repeatedly make inappropriate posts the moderators will notice and decide whether a ban is needed.

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:46 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

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