- CrazzySnipe55
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Posted by: CAVX
Haven't fully weighed the pros and cons of these thoughts, so take them with a grain of salt.
-New users and users coming off of a ban will have a dramatically increased post rate limit (current 30 seconds, I believe). The high limit will decrease daily until it reaches 30 seconds like everyone else.
-A good forum standing is incentivized through in-game rewards for future game releases and/or rewards like Bungie Pro or discounts on Bungie Store merchandise.
-Users have the ability to upvote and downvote posts. Downvoting a post will hide it and downvoting a thread will hide it from the listing, and upvoting something could influence the order of your thread display based on who you upvoted. Users will get a "reveal" button similar to the mods to show what they've hidden and see the page as a default user would see it. Reporting a post automatically downvotes it. The key here is that the amount of upvotes and downvotes doesn't have to be public information, but the mods could view reports on which users have the most downvotes/upvotes/etc. to more easily understand who's more likely to be breaking the rules and who's doing a good job. Notably, a manual review here would still be required, but it might make it easier to notice smaller trends in negative behavior.
Um, uh... no because Facebook. Wait, uh, no because elitism. Or... I don't know... abuse. Some other tired unoriginal nonsensical argument that'll be brought against this idea.
For real though, I like all of the idea's you've proposed except the changing of the order of posts based on upvoting. That does lead to a logical argument of abuse because people can constantly upvote a thread to keep it at the top of the forum. Also, I'm just partial to seeing things chronologically. It lets me know what I have and have not read.