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Tom Achronos
Bungie.net Overlord
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."
One other possibility we're looking at is a kind of "karma" system. Basically, a new user would be limited to a crappy title, a limited set of avatars, and maybe some limitations on how much he can post.
To gain karma, various things can be done. A linked gamertag, time passing without being blacklisted, 7th column participation, etc. Lots of things could modify your "karma" either way. We could also put a button on post that people could click if they think the post is an especially good post. We would not put any negative feedback buttons or stuff like that, because that can be abused easily and some people wear negative feedback like a badge of honor.
Anyway, as these actions are recorded, your "karma" increases, granting rewards to the user. Things like granting the user special titles in the public forums, a expanded set of avatars only available to high karma users, and anything else we think of.
You might be wondering how this would help spamming. Well, one of the problems we have right now is that your identity is not very valuable. You can simply create a new passport and get a new login, and you don't really lose much: a similar name will tell everybody who you are. But what if you create a new login and you lost more than just a name? How about a title, your avatars, your reputation? All the neat little awards we could come up with, gone.
That, combined with a more effective admin system that the mods will be getting shortly, might do the trick. Anyway, that's my idea - any comments?