TOS was made for that, without considering human’s nature to ignore and disobey it ;D
That’s what you think! Google thinks otherwise 
Cas
Another option is just have a 4chan style sub forum for posting (or moving) senseless posts. Threads automatically get deleted after after a certain amount of time (maybe 24 hours after the last post/reply in a thread). This would allow some senseless discussion (without fear of censorship) while at the same time not messing up the stats or forum.
In normal forums, isn’t that the main job of mods to do exactly that ?
Moving threads, merging threads, complaining, moderating posts… you know…
I think that is a good idea. People will refrain from posting stupid stuff when they realize their posts are being moved to the “Shamefully Senseless” section.
And I could also feel powerful by using my moderators powers for something 8)
Again, I don’t get the point you are trying to make.
The rate at which the ‘annoyance-scale’ maps to one of the actions, is the difference between ‘gentle’ and ‘harsh’ moderation.
Well, my point is harsh moderation is common, and it works… all this medal/rank/karma/whatever code seems unnecessary if you’d just have mods doing what mods are supposed to do.
Maybe I’m secretly complaining that m77 was never banned and instead there more ranks and medals and whatnot. I just like the traditional approach in forums: date of joining, number of posts, name, avatar, thats it - the rest is mod-work
MarkusP and ChrisM would not have a “high” rank using this system. Thats why I think “since when has this person be here” is more important than being a “JGO Knight”
They would have, except that they left before medals were introduced.
I am either oblivious of whatever point you were trying to make or you really meant hypothetical question. :clue:
Well, there was a guy that once used YouTube comments to train a spam filter to act as a “stupid filter.” Maybe Riven could do the same with StackOverflow questions?
I don’t really think technological fixes alone are ideal. There should be a rule and it should be enforced by human moderators. Forums often have permission settings you can change per group/per person. Posting in existing topics and posting new topics are usually separate permissions, so there is a mechanism to enforce it.
Something that could go a long way is to look at the ratio of a person’s new-post-count to new-topic-count. Then you can take some action, like sending them a warning, blocking them from creating a new topic, or putting them on a moderation queue like you would do for new members in a board with lots of serious spammers. It could be made fairly unobtrusive. Here is Java-like pseudocode:
if(member.topicCount() - 1 > member.postCount() / 10 && member.medalCount() < 3)
{
if(!giveOneWarning || member.hasReceivedWarning())
{
member.postsGoToModerationQueue = true;
}
sendPrivateMessage(member, "You're creating too many threads. It's impolite to spam new topics.");
member.setWarningsReceived(member.getWarningsReceived() + 1);
}
Another possible approach, and I know it’s out of fashion, is use human judgement rather than automated nagging.
(I meant rhetorical question. as in I’m actually claiming there is no fix. “Semi”-rhetorical because I could always be surprised by a clever solution.)
The simple fact is, when it comes to this board, there simply isn’t a real problem to speak of, thanks in no small part to Riven’s efforts.
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oh, nice
Yes! senseless thread! now I can ask java related question without account on other forum! if i’m not ignored ofc… :emo:
Wait, anyone experience lost medals? :o
You didn’t lose medals.Previously there was SMF karma (labeled ‘medals’) and actual medals (person A appreciates post B of person C). These two values grew out of sync - I had >400 karma but only >300 medals. Now SMF karma is synced with actual medals, making it much less confusing at the cost of a few lost karma points.
Oh ok thanks for the explanation.
What I really want as a title is: “I used the big potty!”. Never have grokked the achievement culture thing.
I’m an achievement whore and a perfectionist, which is the reason I don’t play most games with achievements. Some of them is just silly grinding and my ocd forces me to grind, if there’s achievements for it. xD
Though I’ve never had any urges about ranks on forums. But it is always nice to be recognized for the time and effort you put into helping others. (Even though, in this forum I think I’ve gotten more help than given xD)
Time to spam games… ;D
Let’s do something lower, for example work together to give medals to each others ;D
Absolutely. I’ve already made sure that all of my Java4k games are detected, and now I’m wondering what the etiquette is on posting links to games I designed and wrote but don’t own. The Showcase FAQ says “anything goes”, but the Featured Games FAQ seems to imply that you have to own all the rights.