- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: GameJunkieJim
The employees have the powers, I've actually seen Blondebeard lock a thread!
And the system works kind of like a scale from -3 to +3 with everyone reading the thread voting on it. Your vote seems to have more weight if you has more positive feedback, I.E. You can spend points to do things, up to and including stickying threads automatically if enough points are spent on it. Threads which earn more positive points earns you more Karma to spend on others threads (or your own) and threads which earn negative points take Karma away.
You would only be able to post if you had at least 1 point of Karma, and you got one free point a week. But it's retroactive with bad behavior, for instance if you somehow flamed and got -3 karma points, you wouldn't be able to post for 3 weeks. The worse you act, the worse your built in penalty. It would ease the burden on the Moderators considerably. But it would take so long to implement...
I'm not very familiar with this, but...
Wouldn't that system be abused? I mean, what if a bunch of newer users all spent their karma on a good poster who was simply trying to help out?