Originally posted by SNGX1275
Whats wrong with the way it is now?
Nothing really...
And I think I posted that in another similar thread...
But since we were on the topic I thought I'd suggest a way which I feel would be better than the one suggested by Phantasm...
timmmore> The 5 stars wouldn't be too bad, but (if I understand you correctly), it won't change things much... It would be the same as it is with rank today...
And I'm against letting everyone vote on each post... Most users would most likely just ignore the function, and those who really cared how high they are would only create x^n new accounts to vote with....
For the "moderators could be biased", yes they sure could be... But with my suggestion, they'd actively have to do something... They'd have to mark the message(s) as "not counting towards postcount"... That alone should discourage any "casual" "cheating", and if it happened quite a lot to one users, it wouldn't be harder for that person to complain to Julio, and he'd check which mod was marking all those messages, and ask him why...
But Phantasm idea of nominating posts could be a very good idea...
If we let people nominate users, then we'd still get the same problem of people registering lord knows how many accounts, but if we limit it only to posts, it would be obvious if someone was trying to inflate their score...
It would also be quite interesting to see what posts would make it to the top, if we only allowed each user to vote for 5 posts (and not his own!)...
With limiting the votes to 5 per person, the person would have to be sure that the post (s)he's voting for is worthy...
And it could be a good incentive to make people make "better" posts (better layout, well thought out etc)...
Mict> I admitted there were flaws with the system I suggested, but that I thought it had fewer flaws than what Phantasm originally suggested...
And as far as "I've written helpful answers that were less than 3 sentences"...
Well, it shouldn't be too hard to add a couple of more lines to the post, maybe describing why you think it'll fix the problem, if it were said anywhere else etc...
And the problem with people writing longer BS posts, I think that will be covered by moderators having the ability to mark a post, so it wouldn't count towards the postcount...
.02$
I'll end this post by quoting SNGX1275, as I think he made quite a lot of good points!
Originally posted bySNGX1275 :
What if we keep the current ranking and postcount as it is today
The influx of rubbish posts we have had recently may be caused by one of the obvious being overlooked: we have more traffic than 'back in the day'. So we are getting more new members, and keeping the percentage of "bad posters or posts" the same the number increases with more members joining.
I guess my point is that these ideas seem good at first, but the more you look into them the more flaws you can find. I think its good to have a thread like this to discuss options, don't get me wrong. But so far I'm not sure any of these ideas are going to fix a problem that we have always had, its just more noticible now since we have more posters than we have had in the past.
I say moderators just keep doing their jobs, maybe utilizing the PM feature more on members that are starting to post a little less mature than what we (as a forum) like to see. I don't really view this as a problem like I did not all that long ago, I realize its just something thats going to happen, but if moderators and the general population on the forum can just make an effort to post at a certain 'standard' level new members will see that and take notice.