Reporting posts - Reward/rank

[woopidoo2]

I was thinking, some people post posts in the wrong board, or spams alot, anything that you can report a post for.

 

 

 

Why not give someone a ''present'', if he is the one that reports the most posts in one month?

 

 

 

This way more people will report posts, and at the end of the month they will see if he/she is in the list of the ''Post Reporter of the Month''.

 

 

 

I dont know what this ''present'' will be, maybe an adjusted rank, underbanner, trophy, i dont know.

 

 

 

Just an idea,

 

 

 

~Woopidoo2.

[Centuramage]

I'm not sure this is such a good idea.

 

 

 

Giving users such an incentive to report will likely have the moderators flooded with reports for every post with a possible minor infraction or even reports for posts that have no business being reported at all. That would effectively render the reporting system useless.

 

 

 

The whole point of reporting posts is to make the job easier for moderators to keep the forums clean and presentable, I think, not to hunt down and pick your peers' and friends' posts to pieces, as I feel the case would be, given an incentive to report lots of posts.

 

 

 

Your suggestion seems to equate more reported posts with cleaner, friendlier forums. I don't feel this would be the case and frankly feel that it would compound the work for TIF's moderators.

[Ard_Choille]

While I understand your premise woopidoo2, I think it would be lost on most reporters.

 

 

 

It's been my experience that any time you create a reward system for quantitative behavior, quality is severely compromised. We have some very diligent reporters currently and I'd hate to see that quality deteriorate by sheer volume increase.

 

 

 

Have fun!

 

 

 

- Ard

[misterxman]

Well we don't want users to come to forums just to look for things to report. Reporting/modding should be the last thing they aim to do when they come here. If they happen to see a bad post, most of the time they'll report it. Still, bad posts get reported eventually or a mod finds them so it's not like bad posts go unmodded for a long time.

[ShaneOneill1]

I agree with the others I'm afraid.

 

 

 

People would just go through the forums searching for rule breaking threads. So the Moderators would not only have a harder job, there mail boxes would be full rather quickly.

 

 

 

Also, players may just create accounts to spam, so they can report the thread and gain a 'report count'

 

 

 

Have a good day. :D

[Shaddd]

I agree with the others I'm afraid.

 

 

 

People would just go through the forums searching for rule breaking threads. So the Moderators would not only have a harder job, there mail boxes would be full rather quickly.

 

 

 

Also, players may just create accounts to spam, so they can report the thread and gain a 'report count'

 

 

 

Have a good day. :D

 

 

 

Exactly. A harder jobs for the moderators would lead to new moderator recruitment, and the Admins/Staff are busy as it is. Fixing up the forums, and what not. It would just be too much to handle in my opinion.

[woopidoo2]

You (who posted here) changed my point of view completely :P

[saidada1189]

While I understand your premise woopidoo2, I think it would be lost on most reporters.

 

 

 

It's been my experience that any time you create a reward system for quantitative behavior, quality is severely compromised. We have some very diligent reporters currently and I'd hate to see that quality deteriorate by sheer volume increase.

 

 

 

Have fun!

 

 

 

- Ard

 

 

 

maybe then we could have one mod work on that. Such that quanity is not only measured, but so i quality. This does not mean that only one mod has to do all reports, but that the mods that think a report is "good" can send it to that mod. That mod would then at the end of the month look at the numbers, and the quality.

[Ard_Choille]

maybe then we could have one mod work on that. Such that quanity is not only measured, but so i quality. This does not mean that only one mod has to do all reports, but that the mods that think a report is "good" can send it to that mod. That mod would then at the end of the month look at the numbers, and the quality.

 

 

 

I feel that it would be a disservice to the Tip.It Community to narrow down this sort of assessment to just a few staff members. The Tip.It Staff works the forum reports as a team and represents the Community as a whole since we all started out as mere posting/reporting users wondering if we were adding any value to the forums.

 

 

 

The "quality" measure you are all looking for is quite active albeit not visible to all users in the form of a ranking or "present"...unless you consider the influx of Moderators, Administrators and Crew Members added on a regular basis. Essentially, we all recognize quality reporters and do our best to communicate it to them.

 

 

 

- Ard

[saidada1189]

oh I see

 

 

 

Well that (ard's post) changes my view completely too

 

 

 

(I forgot about the new staff thingy)

 

 

 

-sai