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]

Good point. Sounds good then at least to me. (referring to Josh)

Edit// I don't think the overall point is to turn this board into a goody-goody place but rather to give feedback on the members. And ^ said yes people could simply not reply to there threads but do you see how many people are on this forum? Seriously no matter one someone is going to reply to their topic and it gets going from there.

Really I don't see how this could hurt at all.

[MissHygienic]

Edit// I don't think the overall point is to turn this board into a goody-goody place but rather to give feedback on the members. And ^ said yes people could simply not reply to there threads but do you see how many people are on this forum? Seriously no matter one someone is going to reply to their topic and it gets going from there.

Really I don't see how this could hurt at all.

I'm not saying that it's the point to change the forum into a nicer, caring community. I'm saying that if there were restrictions to everything we say, then what purpose would subsections like The Lounge serve? Who's to judge what's mean? A few members could interpret my posts with some of the things I've said as rude, and other people may not agree. How is one supposed to regulate this? Am I going to get a bad reputation because of saying a few "f**ks" and "shits" because perhaps it offends new members?

Or, hypothetically, it is without a doubt that the older members here will cut themselves and their friends slack, even if they do spam, as opposed to new members. I think this would cause some injustice.