Comments on: The end of “topic-flooding”? http://blog.makefive.com/2008/06/the-end-of-topic-flooding/ You are what you think. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:45:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: karj http://blog.makefive.com/2008/06/the-end-of-topic-flooding/#comment-5 karj Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:24:47 +0000 http://blog.makefive.com/?p=19#comment-5 Agreed--this has certainly been a difficult issue to resolve, and we're really trying to take a balanced approach in dealing with it. It's our feeling that those who did the bulk of the topic flooding weren't really doing so maliciously. We're of the opinion that they simply needed to be reminded that the site is about good information and discussion, not the collection of points. I suppose we could dock more points yet; however, I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt. All have apologized to the community and agreed to create better content in the future. That being said, it rests on our entire community to take note of bad behavior and personally call-out those who are abusing the system. In weeks to come we'll be adding more moderation tools as well. This will allow active users like you to make note of offenders quickly. As with all of these things, it just takes time to develop them; nevertheless, once they are in place, I believe we'll be able to better root-out bad content before it starts to bubble out of control. Thanks for your patience as we work out all of these issues. :-) Agreed–this has certainly been a difficult issue to resolve, and we’re really trying to take a balanced approach in dealing with it.

It’s our feeling that those who did the bulk of the topic flooding weren’t really doing so maliciously. We’re of the opinion that they simply needed to be reminded that the site is about good information and discussion, not the collection of points.

I suppose we could dock more points yet; however, I’d like to give them the benefit of the doubt. All have apologized to the community and agreed to create better content in the future. That being said, it rests on our entire community to take note of bad behavior and personally call-out those who are abusing the system.

In weeks to come we’ll be adding more moderation tools as well. This will allow active users like you to make note of offenders quickly. As with all of these things, it just takes time to develop them; nevertheless, once they are in place, I believe we’ll be able to better root-out bad content before it starts to bubble out of control.

Thanks for your patience as we work out all of these issues. :-)

]]> By: mdudlik http://blog.makefive.com/2008/06/the-end-of-topic-flooding/#comment-2 mdudlik Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:49:02 +0000 http://blog.makefive.com/?p=19#comment-2 I don't know if this is enough, especially for the 5 or so friends who were at the head of this spamming this weekend. Considering, that even 50% of the points would still have them ahead of most of the valuable users (platt, friessen, chrisj) (19,000 in a day for the top place person) and doesn't address harassment of other members (TOP 5 SORE LOSERS OF MYFIVE) and an obvious disregard for the community itself. it might also be good to remove some of those topics they added, because they just add clutter to be sorted around to get to the decent topics Top 5 Alex Merced Songs Top 5 Siblings top 5 weather top five people who should kill there selves etc etc etc I don’t know if this is enough, especially for the 5 or so friends who were at the head of this spamming this weekend. Considering, that even 50% of the points would still have them ahead of most of the valuable users (platt, friessen, chrisj) (19,000 in a day for the top place person) and doesn’t address harassment of other members (TOP 5 SORE LOSERS OF MYFIVE) and an obvious disregard for the community itself.

it might also be good to remove some of those topics they added, because they just add clutter to be sorted around to get to the decent topics

Top 5 Alex Merced Songs
Top 5 Siblings
top 5 weather
top five people who should kill there selves

etc etc etc

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