- spartanfornow
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Use your head. The one on your shoulders. No really, just try. Please?
˙sɹǝʇndɯoɔ ɥʇıʍ pooƃ os ʇou ɯ,ı 'ǝɹǝɥ ʇǝƃ sıɥʇ pıp ʍoɥ 'lol
I think the best way to counteract spam would be this; the Topic Rating System.
How it works:
At the bottom of each thread, there would be a rating, starting at 50%. There would be two options good and bad.
Selecting Good raises the rating of the thread, Bad lowers the rating of the thread.
If the rating drops below 20%, the thread dissapears from the listing entirely, it wouldn't be deleted, it would just not be crowding up the boards.
If the rating rises above 80% the thread would get either bolded or a gold star next to it.
This would be a good way to combat spam, it would forever create a way of saying that the spam shouldn't exist without threads, replies, or private messages. This would keep otherwise good members from getting banned/blacklisted when they respond to spam
EDIT: If you get blacklisted, your votes should be removed, limiting the spammers combating legitimate threads.
EDIT #2: I suppose that it would not be cookie-dependant. I don't know how that works.
Discuss.
[Edited on 8/8/2005]