Gamingphreek
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- Mar 31, 2003
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Originally posted by: Lvcoyote
I was a Moderator at the abit forums for years, and am currently an Administrator at The Raptor Pit Forums, so I have a little experience. You definitely do not want anyone but Moderators to be able to delete threads, or move them. If a member posts in the wrong section or wants something deleted he should contact a Moderator to do it for him. What we found is that people would come in, ask their question and get some great responses, then for whatever reason would delete the thread after a solution was found. We lost some good information before we implemented the "no delete" options. You also want to implement a time limit for editing posts, 3 days seemed to work well for us.
A few other good ideas are to put a post limit on the For Sale/WTB section of at least 50 posts to be able to participate. This really cuts down on the trolls, they wont bother making 50 posts in the forums just to be able to list items in the For Sale section. Implementing a rep system is a bad idea, your Moderators will be flooded with user requests to remove stupid reps from their accounts, its the most abused option there is. A "Thanked" system is much better, the more times a member is thanked the better he looks in others eyes as to the effectiveness of his replies in threads.
That is a great point on the no delete option. The edit; however, is quite useful even after 3 days. For long threads updating the OP or, in some cases, reusing a thread is very helpful.
I don't recall too absurd of an amount of troll threads in FS/FT. I feel like 50 post minimum would flood OT and P&N with threads where an article is quoted or something outrageous is said - there posts would merely be troll posts in the other forums.
The thanked system or rep system just becomes a pissing contest to see who can get the most regardless in my opinion. Just general intuition when reading the original post goes a lot further in my mind. A lot of us more experienced posters also have a knack for calling out trolls when they are there - even if the original post might be more subtle.
-Kevin