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Posted by: catman6
Not sure how this will be taken but I'll voice my opinion anyway.
During certain hours of the night and even during the day sometimes the forums are overrun by spam. I know moderators take care of these people as quickly as possible but they aren't there all of the time. There should be a way for the members of this forum to "self moderate" to an extent.
What I'm getting at is a "Posting block" for example that will keep a member from posting for X period of time if Y number of people report 5 of their posts Z times. I feel that this would solve problems of spam that takes up hundreds of lines and would also take care of link spammers.
I know this has the possibility of abuse. There may be certain members here with hundreds of alts that they would use to have revenge on certain members. That is where the time limit comes in. They would only be kept from posting for a certain period of time, say 10 minutes. Once that 10 minutes is up they can post as usual again, however, if another one of their posts gets reported Y times they will get another 10 minute hold.
This would be even more expanded by activating this feature only when mods are absent and giving mods the ability to clear the hold on accounts.
This hold would not affect their trust rating or block their posts, only keep them from posting.
I want to hear other member's opinions on this idea as well as thoughts from mods and if they think this would help control the late night chaos.
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If this gives too much power to certain groups such as Sapphire as mentioned. It could be used to hide posts automatically rather than block the user. There is already a system in place to auto-hide posts when they receive a certain number of reports. They would still be viewable, but their posts would start hidden. Then the auto-hide could be lifted if a moderator clears them
Here is a script posted by HD PVR that can block users for now if you wish.
A less restrictive post hiding method that has been mentioned before (and in this thread by True Underdog) is to have the post hide when reported. This would at least solve part of the problem while also giving an incentive for reporting posts.
So you have essentially suggested a feature that would give 1 individual the ability to temporarily blacklist another poster?
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