Lets make good posts and reputation mean something.
Recently there is a new asshat hijacking tons of threads. It is not that he is being confrontational (which he is) it is that he is just talking shit and not adding anything at all meaningful.
I dont really care to read his shit. I want to put him on ignore, which is not nearly enough, especially if others respond to him.
Why can lots and lots of well respected members call him out on this shit and he is still here?
Why not make the ability to post frequently be reputation based. Get negative rep from someone with rep above a certain level and you can only post once an hour for 6 hours afterwards. Get negative rep from five people in a certain time frame and you can only post once a day for a week.
It is like timeouts for kids. These guys are acting like children. They can ruin a discussion in no time and hurt the value of the board to new people. Why are we letting them do this. Treat them like the children they are.
Take it so far as banning people and even related IP's if that becomes an issue.
Make it where negative rep means something to both the person giving and receiving the rep. Make it where any user can only give negative rep so often. Put something in place to make sure it is not being misused. Define when negative rep should or should not be used.
Lots of cool things could be attached to rep, currently it is meaningless.
Recently there is a new asshat hijacking tons of threads. It is not that he is being confrontational (which he is) it is that he is just talking shit and not adding anything at all meaningful.
I dont really care to read his shit. I want to put him on ignore, which is not nearly enough, especially if others respond to him.
Why can lots and lots of well respected members call him out on this shit and he is still here?
Why not make the ability to post frequently be reputation based. Get negative rep from someone with rep above a certain level and you can only post once an hour for 6 hours afterwards. Get negative rep from five people in a certain time frame and you can only post once a day for a week.
It is like timeouts for kids. These guys are acting like children. They can ruin a discussion in no time and hurt the value of the board to new people. Why are we letting them do this. Treat them like the children they are.
Take it so far as banning people and even related IP's if that becomes an issue.
Make it where negative rep means something to both the person giving and receiving the rep. Make it where any user can only give negative rep so often. Put something in place to make sure it is not being misused. Define when negative rep should or should not be used.
Lots of cool things could be attached to rep, currently it is meaningless.
