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scratch and sniff?
First of all, you should get more interactive.
For example, a language award....similar to the JREF foundation forum. Anyone at anytime can nominate a specific post (other than your own) throughout a given month for the "language award" by pasting the post in the award forum. All the nominee's can be reviewed by mods and then cut down to like 7 or something. Then whoever gets the most votes out of those 7, wins the language award for best, most original, intelligent, and strong post of that month.
That would create an incentive to sign on and post something of substance. I know alot of people are being turned away from USMB due to trolls, spammers, or just plain idiots. So with the language award, the mods and the people can exploit some of the highlights and/or intelligent posters on this board, while at the same time....proving that the rep point system is not the only way to gain respect on this board, and that it has nothing to do with actual knowledge of the world around us.
You could call it like the "flat earth award" or something ironic.
ps. this method also works for "worst post" awards as well.
I know a lot of people are being turned away from USMB due to trolls, spammers, or just plain idiots.
Absolutely. So the big question is: how do you keep trolls, spammers and just plain idiots from participating on USMB?
CreekSpeak Removed
Having witnessed , on this board, the partisan attempt to silence someone that disagreed with another's political position who gets to decide what is spam, a troll or just plain idiots? In other words when do we begin censorship and who gets to decide whom to censor?
censorship?
isn't this private endeavor the perogative of the owner, buddy? Don't they have the right to mold this environment according to their whims? Come on, RGS, don't get all commie pinko on us here when you feel the chaffe set in..
How about giving us back our old emoticons which Greg the tight-arsed took away from us.
Having witnessed , on this board, the partisan attempt to silence someone that disagreed with another's political position who gets to decide what is spam, a troll or just plain idiots? In other words when do we begin censorship and who gets to decide whom to censor?
Certainly, I have the right to create whatever environment I wish.
I wish it to be free of censorship.
How's that?
Sorry, not my problem to solve. I was just highlighting what I think is a major problem for the board owner and administrators. I know trolls, spammers & co. have First Amendment rights, but they are a major reason people dont tune in anymore. There used to be thousands of posts on this board every day; now it is down to a few hundred. If and when someone comes up with a solution for handling spammers, trolls & co., attracting others wont be such a problem.