- RighteousTyrant
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Posted by: Achronos
Any such feature would allow you to turn it off, yes. Although, the default for everybody would likely be "on". The only thing I'm not sure about is how to display those posts meant to be hidden. I'd probably just censor the subject and text but leave the body of the post there instead of outright hiding everything like I do for banned users. But I'm still undecided on that. I guess the big problem with hiding them outright is that people will start doubling posting, thinking their previous post got deleted or there was an error.
Regarding their point about people "unhiding" things... well, some people are like that, but really, if you're unhiding the reported spam, you don't get to complain about spam. At that point, it would be your own damn fault for being able to see stuff like that.
Other things I'm considering are a thumbs up/down for entire threads (not individual posts), and allowing you to sort the forum by the positive/negative status THEN by last post date if you so choose. Also, allowing you to sort by post creation date instead of last post date (and making that the default sort for the file forums so bumping threads has no effect there).
A lot of you focus on the problem of spam like it is caused by people not knowing the rules at all. That's silly - it is caused by people not caring what the rules are, combined by the sheer volume of stuff. The solution for spam, then, is to give you tools to elevate the good content to the top. This is a hard problem, of course. But suggestions that target that particular aspect are significantly more helpful than suggestions that assume people are ignorant of the rules, or suggestions like "get more moderators" or other negative reinforcement type suggestions. Moderators should be a last resort in an ideal system.
The thumbs up/down and hiding-reported-posts features sound great--I hope that, after the OP in a thread has, itself, been reported enough times, it becomes hidden on the forum front page, so as not to bump off potentially better threads.
Also, if we have the ability to rate a particular thread, do we have the ability to change our rating, or is it set in stone?