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Poll: what solution idea do you think would work best? [closed]
| 1) Ban IP adresses instead of just users:
0%
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(0 Votes)
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| 2) Newbs have to wait 5 days b4 being able to post:
25%
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(2 Votes)
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| 3) Limit # of posts and responses per day.:
12%
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(1 Votes)
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| 4) More mods to delete spammer accounts:
62%
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(5 Votes)
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Total Votes: 8
Im sure its obvious to everyone that has been here more than a week that, our current form of punishing and getting rid of spammers is not working.
[color=white]-Problems I see with the current system-[/color]
[color=lime]1) For the next year or two we will constantly be getting new members, therefore there will always be new people to feed the trolls. So simple ignoring trolls is impossible because new members will never catch on right away, and we are going to be getting new members for a very long time.
2) The problem isn't that the mods aren't delteing the spammers accounts, its that it is so easy for spammers to make new accounts with part of their trademark in the name. Eg. devestater 88 always has an 88 in his name or something that sounds like devestater. therefore I think that deleting there accounts is pointless.
3) like Anchros said before. we need someway for the person to lose something by creating amother account, and with the current system spammers only have to slightly change their name. spammers can still build up a reputation this way, which I think is ther main reason they stay. (to be known by a lot of people)[[/color]
[color=white]-Solution ideas-[/color]
[color=lime]1) Im pretty confused on why anchros doesnt let the mods ban certain ip adresses. If mods could do that, then spammers would have to change homes or at least internet connections, in order to make a new account, which needless to say would work very well in getting rid of spammers. Seeing as how this idea is so obvious, im guessing there are problems with this plan that I dont see. (If so can someone fill me in on whats wrong with this plan?)
2) If we had a 5 day wait period for all new members that would sure slow down the spammers at least. New members would not likely be scared off though because they would still be able to look at the forum and see how it works before they talk on it.
3) Similar to the 2nd idea, maybe new users would be limited to the amount of posts they could create and resond to per day. here an idea of how it would work...
- New users (first week) can only create 1 new post per day, and can only respond three times a day to posts other than their own. They would be alowed to resond to there own posts as much as they want because there first post would likely be "hi im new!" and then they would likely want to hi to everyone who responds to their post, and i think that is exceptable behavior of a newb. then they could use there three responses per day to post their opinions about other peoples topics and get a taste of the community
-also for all the non new members, they could be not allowed to post anything that has more than 20% mispelled words. that way spammers would not be able to just type in a bunch of letters and post. old users could also have a post and resonse limit. except it would be closer to 5 new posts per day, and like a 40 responses limit per day
4) we could get an excessively high number of moderators so that mods outnumber all other users 3 to 1. and then everyone would talk like gramatically correct british people. (ok myabe not that much more mods but you get the point.) and there are also still a few very responsable members left that can be turned into mods. at least i think so.[/color]
feel free to make your own suggestions on how to fix this problem, say what suggestions you like, or say what suggestion you think are good but are unfair in certain areas.
I know that alot of these ideas are based on other peoples ideas from that post that was here a few months ago, but this has the solution ideas in one post instead of broken up along 12 pages
[Edited on 9/4/2004 12:14:52 PM]