- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Hmm, that's very true. I suspect there would be people that would create an account....wait the restricted time to post...then vote on someone they don't like. Also, that person would probably get his friends to do it too......hmm... Well, there could be a vote restriction as well I think. Before people are allowed to vote, they must have a set amount of 'good' posts determined by feedback. This of course would not be put in till a bit later, after there is a good amount of voters established. But after it was put in, it would eliminate like...99% of attempt to sabotage someone. Because we all know, the only people who would try to do that are short-attention spanned, lazy bums lol. For them to do this, they would need to Create account, wait the restricted time to post, make at least several Good posts to get thier rating up, then they could vote....once per [authors] post. And then get all their friends to do it as well. I don't know about you but that doesn't seem very likely lol, and if it does eventually happen, the community (by now full of respected individuals) would alert mod that someone was unjustly silenced, or limited...or whatever.
*Edit* Just as a sidenote, many peoples enjoyment of the forums are being destroyed as it is by garbage. There will always be casualties, but at least with these new methods...we would have Medics to heal them :)
Also, so people don't vote with multiple accounts there would be an IP limitation. Easily enough done right? Not positive, but still...1 voter per computer to be safe.
[Edited on 3/13/2005 7:39:03 AM]