Khuli wrote: > Is there any merit in the possibility of users here being able to 'Rate' > another user, or a thread, and after a suitably poor rating the thread > gets automatically locked, or the user gets some kind of penalty? > Perhaps people with a higher rating have more weight when voting, and > people with a poor rating cannot vote at all.
I also thought of that, some other forums that I frequent have 'reputation' systems, and vBulletin (the application that these forums use) has support. But reputations and warnings are not a complete solution for a couple of reasons: 1) you need moderation anyway. 2) reputations can get abused. Note that eBay is making radical changes to its reputation system because of serious abuse. I don't know enough about this space to make technical recommendations to the LogiTech folks. I'm all for things that automate or lighten the moderators workload. But I think in the end, the moderator has to be a smart human. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
