Idea: Reputation System, Anti-Troll Gun Options

[Uronacid]

Recently I have become upset with a very specific member. I gave this member a percentage of my time, and in return they pissed me off. There has been a sudden increase in annoying members here on cB. This sudden increase of annoying members has had me thinking of a solution. I was thinking about how to make this place better. We obviously can't ban these annoying people for good. Technically they aren't breaking any rules, but suddenly it hit me. A reputation system. What if I could know there reputation before they pissed me off. If I knew what to expect then they wouldn't have bothered me in the first place.

A Reputation System

Xbox Live has a reputation system. You can give feedback on each gamer you come across, and their reputation will precede them on whatever game they play. This way, when you come across someone with a bad reputation, you'll know what to expect. You don't waste your time with people you know are a waste of time. Can you imagine if create blog had a system like this one? Trolls will loose their touch because members will know whether or not to give them the time of day.

Official members of the community would have the ability to vote on each post that a member makes within one week of the day that they posted it. Similar to the "report" button, you could have a "feedback" button. You would click this button and rate the post based on a number of positive and negative choices:

• Negative Examples:
  • Racist
  • Bad Language
  • Annoying
  • Mean
• Positive Examples:
  • Helpful
  • Funny
  • Nice
  • Open-Minded

The votes would tally up, and members of the community could view any member's reputation based on the percentages of the last 1000 votes. We obviously can't do anything like this yet, it would have to wait for mivron, but what do you think of this idea?

[freeflow]

I think its a good idea overall. The only thing I would see as a bad part is people teaming up to vote negative on a certain person.

[Uronacid]

I think its a good idea overall. The only thing I would see as a bad part is people teaming up to vote negative on a certain person.

Yeah, but that's why you would have to vote on a post within 7 days of it's creation (It might be good to have it so they can only vote withing the first 24 hours of that posts creation). That way people wouldn't be running around from topic to topic voting on old posts.

The ganging up thing wouldn't be bad if people got into the swing of voting. They would vote as posts came. I think that votes would even out. People would only gang up on members who are ultra annoying.