Re: Limiting Spam posts, Trolls, Joe Jobs and other maleficence

[exussum0]

Anyone can twist statistics in their favour. I can post a regular question, get upvotes, and then post junk. Or create an XP team to vote me up constantly so that I can post.

[Random_Walk]

Anyone can but the bar would be raised for the casual troll. I am not so sure about the method of requiring pre-approval but once someone gets $n level of down votes we have a fair indication they are up to no good.

Perhaps life can be made harder for trolls and spammers with little chance of hurting true seakers of knowledge. The community certainly seams to get their number pretty quickly and flag them with heavy downvoting. At least a goal worthy of discussion

Cheers,
R.

[exussum0]

Perhaps life can be made harder for trolls and spammers with little chance of hurting true seekers of knowledge.

This place is more wiki style than slashdot style. Such is the culture and gosh darn it, I like it.

As for $n level of down votes, some people, in earnest, don't get it from time to time or for a large spanning period. Good contributions are good contributions.

[blogical]

This is the basis of most "security" measures- not ensuring absolute security, but decreasing the likelihood of an undesirable event occuring by, as Random_Walk pointed out, "raising the bar" in such a manner as to create the least possible interference with the affairs of regular users.