- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Deus_Ex_Machina
I think that this idea is good in theory, but of very dubious usefulness. How would this ranking system work? Would it simply move the topic down, and if so, which topics get to go ahead of it? Also, if you "blacklist" one user because he posted something unpleasant, chances are that he's just another nincompoop who doesn't know what to post--he'll get banned for it and there goes the usefulness of the blacklisting function.
The topic ranking doesn't necessarily have to be something you view when accessing each forum but something that shows on the right side like Pinned, Top Forum Topics.. You could have Ranked Topics that shows a list of topics by Rank allowing users to sort through what people have ranked as good/bad. There would be no sliding scale rank from 1 to 10 or anything it would just be a simple Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down type of rank. Could also have the option to "see all ranked topics" like the Top Forum Topics has. This feature would be useful because it would let users that don't want to sift through all the useless topics and just view the good stuff that has been given the "Thumbs Up" by the users.
It's not that people are really posting anything unpleasant it's just that people are posting stuff that is really dumb and or immature. I'm not interested in 90% of the crap some of the "kids" on here are posting and it would be nice to be able to sort that crap out. I'm guessing this is mainly because the forums are all ages. While they may be banned I continue to see this stuff every day so the bans can't be permanent as I continue to see the same names posting as well.
[Edited on 03.19.2008 2:22 AM PDT]