- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: impurity
The internet is serious business.
Internet pr0n certainly is.
I think that the idea of "on a leash until trusted" is not a bad concept, but the levels of trust should be a gentle slope.
If a new member account is labeled as "unproven" and is restricted to a low number of thread creations per day and a reasonable level of replies per day, I could see that as a safety "feature". As the member account ages and uses the site responsibly (no bans, no discipline, etc.) it then gains increasing levels of "trust" which in turn relax those restrictions... well, those would be rewards for positive membership.
But such a structure is about protecting the site and membership from those who would abuse their posting abilities. There really isn't a way to guarantee "quality" of posts by limiting the numbers of posts. You might get less spam, but people are still going to make "I like pie" posts. It's human nature to be stupid.
Again, I'm going to plug my idea of "levels" here on B.net. Every new user will begin at Level 1, being able to only reply to threads a limited amount. As the user gains levels, he is allowed to create a limited amount of threads and reply more. After a certain amount of time/activity/non-rulebreaking, the user will have full privileges.
Edit:
This could make bans more effective as well. If you are a high level user and you manage to get banned, you drop a few levels and have to earn your way back up. So not only would you be banned for a period of time, but you'd be more limited when you came back. Lesson learned.
[Edited on 1/12/2007]