Tiered QBN accounts
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- cannonball1978
How hard is this to implement? It would cure the majority of spammers and trolls.
- monospaced0
explain and elaborate, please
- mg330
How are spammers tapped into the site? I remember talking to Rafal about this when I hung out with him in Ireland. Are people just getting around the captcha and creating accounts on the fly?
If so, if a couple of people could manage accepting/declining new registrations, wouldn't it be pretty easy to spot the genuine requests, and filter out the spammers?
- cannonball19780
Allowing people to post after, say a weeks membership or some sort of participatory vetting would make starting an account a bit more of a time investment.
- you've really thought that one through...monospaced
- Have I? You think so?cannonball1978
- exactlymonospaced
- cannonball19780
Or work it into the +1 system. You get like 5 posts and if someone +1s your post you get to keep your account. Something like that.
- a -1 system would work better, a thread gets -10 points is deleted/hiddendrgs
- that's what a few forums has.akrok
- and what would stop people from just slapping -1s onto threads just to fuck with others?monospaced
- it become flame war centralGminor
- You could give "weight" to the -1s that happen from legit people.cannonball1978
- so, I would be more legit than you, right? why? why not? Who decides? errrr...monospaced
- mg330
It would be interesting to see the balance of genuine new members vs. spammers over the past few months.
- e-wo0
You're so tired you spelled "tired" wrong
- orrinward20
I think a 'Spam Choice' section under Public Choice would be awesome.
- waterhouse0
I'm fairly angry.
The Penn State thread: apparently gone.
Pharmaceutical spam on the front pane: nearly 50%.
- mg330
- monospaced0
Sounds like you're just tossing the same old ideas out there, but I don't think they would work because people would abuse them. Even the tiered system is flawed since they'd only have to either wait a few days until they can post, or earn the right, which would turn away just about every new potential member at the same time.
- the only solution I see is aggressive moderating... and I don't want to go theremonospaced
- 23kon0
I suggested something like this a few weeks ago and someone said it had been suggested before.
Another way would be to have the site invite-only and if you invite someone and they abuse the site then you could face a ban too? pretty harsh!
Or to sign up youve got to prove you are in the design industries?
- scarabin0
all we need is one mod who can actually do the job
- paid?monospaced
- oh you mean without force feeding them the spam threads??e-pill
- i havent seen a mod capable yet of preforming such a task.. they need full guidance..e-pill
- inteliboy0
i vote stewdio to take over as dev and whip qbn back into shape.
- Gminor0
Whats wrong with the current system? We report spam to the spam thread it gets deleted with the account pretty quick. The site IS moderated with our help. I suppose the real problem is though stopping spam before it happens, which I think requires a more complicated lengthy strategy, one that QBN aren't prepared for perhaps, they are probably fine with the spam thread system.
- mg330
Gminor,
The problem is that the current system allows it at all. There are bound to be ways to prevent a person from having to moderate anything.
- cannonball19780
However it works, the design should be preventative, not cure-on-sight.
- talking out of my ass completely now.cannonball1978
- No. I feelz yamg33
- Amicus0
We need at least 2 mods in each of 4 different timezones around the world.
Plus a team of uber-elitist assassins whose shit doesn't stink to take out the worst spammers.
- ukit20
We need SQSA (the Stop QBN Spam Act)
- GeorgesII0
MAKE ME MOD!1!!!
PROBLEM SOLVED!- apply here: qbn@qbn.com
tell em to dump their current mod for you.e-pill - nah, joking, becoming mod is like losing the possibility to be an asshole ehhe, don't want that :)GeorgesII
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