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HylianSwordsman on 13 March 2019
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padib said:
HylianSwordsman said:

This is actually a pretty good idea. Maybe if it was locked for anyone below a certain number of points? Combined with stepping up the moderation on the politics forum, that would mean that many of the worst offenders would be permabanned from the forums entirely for trolling the gaming forums before they could accumulate enough points to muck up the politics threads.

Cool concept. It would have to be a private rating system done by a neutral group (mod team or a specific group for political threads as was mentioned earlier). It can't be a public rating system because people who disagree or read from the other side of a debate may not be able to stay neutral. It would have to be a rating done by a neutral party, and then certain threads could require higher or lower reputation as configured by a mod.

But that might lead to people not just refraining from trolling or being abusive, but it could lead to people developing some kind of cleaned out rhetoric that goes against the grain of the political forum.

Still it's an interesting idea.

I mean that's certainly one way to do it, but that would be really involved to create. I just meant the gamrPoints system, under your avi. You have 41,000 points right now. I have 11,900. We've clearly both been around long enough that if we were toxic troublemakers, it would already be apparent. Moderating politics would be hard enough with everyone able to access it, but with a high bar, say 5,000 or 10,000 points, only the most committed and proven members would be able to post in political threads, making it much easier to moderate. New people that are the type to troll and be toxic to the community wouldn't be able to post for a long time, and would probably get permabanned from activity on the gaming forums first. New people that aren't the type to troll and be toxic but would be turned off by divisive conversation wouldn't be able to take part in controversial topics until much later after they'd grown attached enough to the community to be able to look past that. All we'd need is some kind of check before a post submits that blocks posts into politics if your gamrPoints are too low. That, and a rule that posting a political thread to the wrong thread gets the thread locked instead of moved to politics if you wouldn't have enough points to partake in it, otherwise people would try to get around the gate by posting in General and getting it transferred to Politics. Also, it would probably be good to pair this with keeping Politics off of Hot Topics, Latest Topics, and the front page so as not to taunt new members with something they can't participate in.