(May 6, 2011 at 4:28 am)tackattack Wrote: I agree that the ban vote is a bad idea. If you want to make your opinion known of someone, rate the user. If you have problem with what they posted, report it. A vote button to ban someone where the admin's have the final say, invites trouble. It gives the appearance that the community has the say so or influence on whether to ban someone. If admin's happen to disagree with the majority, that invites discord between forum community and it's administrators.
Solution - make it something that only mods and admins can see the results, adjust the software so that it appears after the user has been around a while (~2 weeks), and weigh the votes such that users with more rep and/or more post count have a slightly more valuable vote.
The consequence of this is a) people won't be able to see how others voted, preventing group think. However, appeals to ban a person, like in a thread would have to be censored, so as to prevent said group think. b)
In essence, one wants to make the voting system only represent the voter and not the interests of other members. In addition, by delaying the time for a ban-user button to appear allows for initially troublesome posters to redeem themselves.
Perhaps we should make it a "Vote to send <user> to Gauntlet" - this will allow for the community to exercise a little bit more power while participating in subforum "Gauntlet". Thus we can increase the chances for the community dealing with trollish posters in one place and remove the whole "ban this fucker" problem through controlled isolation. If a user in the gauntlet proves to be truly troublesome, the mods and admins can ban them. If not, they can be removed.
Additionally, making this vote system appear only once or twice in the lifetime of a user is advised, such that people may only be sent once or twice to the Gauntlet, but not more. This would prevent spamming the system past reason, would allow for mods to fight vote abuse only twice in a single sitting in theory. Not to mention, if the community sends a person to the Gauntlet twice, either the community is up to no good, or the poster is up to no good. Either way, further inquiry is needed.
And have that button appear in their profile.
Simples.
