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?

[MissHygienic]

I'm not sure if you're directing this more at the staff, but I've been pretty active on this forum for the past 2.5 weeks, and I personally think that this idea seems like a pain in the ass. It's appropriate for XBox because serious players don't want to play with jerk-offs and so they have that reputation system. But a forum? I don't see any need for all of us to go out of our way to vote negatively or positively for every some other post.

We're in no way being forced to handle these annoying people or people who ask relatively dumb questions. We can leave the topic alone, and that should already be an incentive for "trolls" to troll elsewhere, and not on CreateBlog. Instead, we're responding and fueling the fire by answering their questions which encourages them to create more and more posts. That's probably the reason why.

I know what you mean by the negative examples, but bad language and being mean? That would make this forum into some kiss-ass, happy-go-lucky, sweet-family type of forum, and that'd be essentially unappealing to everyone.

[Uronacid]

I'm not sure if you're directing this more at the staff, but I've been pretty active on this forum for the past 2.5 weeks, and I personally think that this idea seems like a pain in the ass. It's appropriate for XBox because serious players don't want to play with jerk-offs and so they have that reputation system. But a forum? I don't see any need for all of us to go out of our way to vote negatively or positively for every some other post.

We're in no way being forced to handle these annoying people or people who ask relatively dumb questions. We can leave the topic alone, and that should already be an incentive for "trolls" to troll elsewhere, and not on CreateBlog. Instead, we're responding and fueling the fire by answering their questions which encourages them to create more and more posts. That's probably the reason why.

I know what you mean by the negative examples, but bad language and being mean? That would make this forum into some kiss-ass, happy-go-lucky, sweet-family type of forum, and that'd be essentially unappealing to everyone.

I'm not directing this at staff at all. I'm directing this at the community. I believe it would reduce the amount of drama tremendously.

You wouldn't be forced to vote. It would be entirely up to you. If you were effected positively by a member then you might want to do them a favor and give them some positive feedback. However, if someone is bugging you then you would be able to anonymously give them some bad feed back so the next member will know what to expect and be less frustrated with an obnoxious post.

It's more unrealistic to expect everyone to ignore trolls that they don't know are trolls than to ignore trolls that can visibly see are trolls.

Also, this is just the brain storming stage of this idea. Those obviously wouldn't be the actual choices you would have to choose from. Those are just examples so that people understand.

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.

Then they would vote on your posts accordingly. If the majority of the members in the community find your posts offensive then you would receive negative feedback if the members gave it to you. I'm sure no-one will have a perfect record, but if the majority of your feedback is positive then you shouldn't have a problem. This idea wouldn't restrict any of your posting ability. It would simply give members an idea of how the community perceives you.

Would you give your friends bad feedback? NO, an there is nothing wrong with that. You understand your friends. Of course people will abuse the system in the beginning. That always happens when new things are put into effect. I just don't' think that a few friends are going to save a member from the wrath of an entire community (that is, if you're a real bastard).