Meaningless Spam Thread

[curtsibling]

I'm sure that would be a best seller.

Yep! In the East and the West...!
(what a world we live in!)

[Robert]

CyberShy, serious dude. I don't see this being a success unless you chill out a bit and keep the existing rules in place. Other wise a lot of people will just up and leave and poly will become a ghost town and I for one don't want to see it go the way of ACOL. So please assert your authority but keep the existing rules in place.

I made a mistake by closing the wrong thread.
Fair enough that people complain about that.

People who think something like that is a reason to start spamming nude and gore pictures are not going to be a part of Apolyton if they continue to do so.

Oerdin and KrazyHorse are both banned for 24 hours now. (I finally found out how to do that (fingers crossed). JM should be able to ban people as well, btw.)

[Krill]

You're facing an uphill struggle. You would be better off leaving the OT and associated forums to it's own mods and focussing on improving the on topic fora.

Because right now all you are doing is undermining your own lackeys.

[Robert]

For the record, Jeroen, Jon Miller, Lorizael and me are the 4 mods of this forum.
Maybe more will follow.

[Krill]

Non seqeutur. It doesn't matter if you are a mod or not of this forum. What matters is if you are going to let the people you gave a job to to do that job. They've had 2 days to get used to it and you only just showed them how to ban people.

So give the mods some slack and let them deal with the situation. You should be in church instead of dealing with this sinful mess, I'm sure.

[Wezil]

Jeroen is an absentee landlord.

[Krill]

I doubt he really even understands the culture of the OTF, so how could he really mods this forum? He can't.

Now apply the same principle to Mr. Plumpy...

[-Jrabbit]

I think all OT posters should be given full mod powers.

[Asher]

I think all OT posters should be given full mod powers.

I've frequently discussed my idea for this with some others here. If and when I make my own site, I plan on hacking vBulletin to have a communal moderation system. There will still be a head "moderator" for the forum, of course....but it'll mostly be a Slashdot comment/digg like system.

There would be a link on each post that other posters could flag as inappropriate, but instead of bringing up a form to email mommy it'd just keep track of how many people thought it was inappropriate. After a certain threshold (determined by an algorithm), it'd "minimize" that post with a warning as to its potential content. If it still gets even more, the post would be removed from the site pending the actual moderator action (approve/deny the post, essentially) even though that's probably not going to happen too much, stuff like TubGirl certainly would qualify for that.

The algorithm would also take into account posting history. If somebody frequently makes posts that are moderated out of the main thread view (as a rate, not volume), they'd have a shorter leash.

Long story short, the community dictates what is or is not acceptable and it doesn't require a mod to look at every post.

[curtsibling]

I recall one great site, Itshappening.com, that was basically self-moderating, and the system worked well.

Most posters can police themselves if given the freedom to...

[Wezil]

I want a taser.

[curtsibling]

Riot shield and iron bar for me!

[-Jrabbit]

I've frequently discussed my idea for this with some others here. If and when I make my own site, I plan on hacking vBulletin to have a communal moderation system. There will still be a head "moderator" for the forum, of course....but it'll mostly be a Slashdot comment/digg like system.

There would be a link on each post that other posters could flag as inappropriate, but instead of bringing up a form to email mommy it'd just keep track of how many people thought it was inappropriate. After a certain threshold (determined by an algorithm), it'd "minimize" that post with a warning as to its potential content. If it still gets even more, the post would be removed from the site pending the actual moderator action (approve/deny the post, essentially) even though that's probably not going to happen too much, stuff like TubGirl certainly would qualify for that.

The algorithm would also take into account posting history. If somebody frequently makes posts that are moderated out of the main thread view (as a rate, not volume), they'd have a shorter leash.

Long story short, the community dictates what is or is not acceptable and it doesn't require a mod to look at every post.

Works for me. The only thing needed is some way of preventing dogpiling. I can easily see political differences getting translated into "inappropriate" flags, which would be disastrous for actual discussions. I'm not convinced that setting the threshold at a high level would be enough to avoid that.

But with some development and experimentation, this could be really cool. Every member of the community would feel (at least somewhat) invested in it, and anyone who couldn't live with the outcome would, naturally, leave. Problem solved.

[Asher]

The algorithm could be tweaked by hand. Posters who have a history of inappropriately flagging posts would have their input mean less. It wouldn't take too long to "calibrate" the system.

[Felch]

I'm so sorry that the tubgirl thread was deleted.

The reactions from you, Drake and Felch were incredible.

Technically tubgirl ought to be my avatar.