Abuse of Power?
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That was unfortunate. I think enabling down-voting on Lounge might help, I think when members have nothing to express their dislike they just reporting the post/member as spam.
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I think the intentions behind the current system are clear. If a message is being reported as spam, then the member is a spammer, which should in fact get them banned. Unfortunately, incidents like this happen when people resort to reporting a message as they don't have any other means to vent their anger on an utterly nonsensical post. But then I've also seen that incidents like this are not very frequent, and when it does happen, our members get the unintentionally closed account reinstated. This is a fair trade to ensure that the actual spammers will get kicked out by the system really quick. I think everything is in order. :)
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Rajesh's idea of a "report message as crap" option seems like the perfect solution to me. It needn't do anything but count the number of reports, no minus points, no abuse/spam deletes or ahything like that. Just let the OP know how many people that didn't like his post...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!
Ron White, ComedianYes, that is a good idea, so if we don't want to implement something new, we can just turn on the down-voting without any minus points/deletes. just plain down-votes to tell the OP that we are not interested.
Remind Me This - Manage, Collaborate and Execute your Project in the Cloud
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I think the intentions behind the current system are clear. If a message is being reported as spam, then the member is a spammer, which should in fact get them banned. Unfortunately, incidents like this happen when people resort to reporting a message as they don't have any other means to vent their anger on an utterly nonsensical post. But then I've also seen that incidents like this are not very frequent, and when it does happen, our members get the unintentionally closed account reinstated. This is a fair trade to ensure that the actual spammers will get kicked out by the system really quick. I think everything is in order. :)
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
I agree, but we need something to let other know that we don't like certain threads. Because most of the time when you reply with dislike, it tends to offend them as it's just finger pointing. It seems, people are not learning anything from these life-learning-lessons. :-D Why do people think that they need to represent themselves as either funny or wise. I just hate this nonsense. :mad:
Remind Me This - Manage, Collaborate and Execute your Project in the Cloud
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Rajesh's idea of a "report message as crap" option seems like the perfect solution to me. It needn't do anything but count the number of reports, no minus points, no abuse/spam deletes or ahything like that. Just let the OP know how many people that didn't like his post...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!
Ron White, ComedianYou mean add back down voting? No. If you don't like something move on. If its inappropriate flag it. If you do like it give them an up vote. But no, I'm not going back to the days of down vote wars
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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You mean add back down voting? No. If you don't like something move on. If its inappropriate flag it. If you do like it give them an up vote. But no, I'm not going back to the days of down vote wars
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
NO not quite - like downvoting but without point deduction. Like that, it does no harm, but still lets people know that you don't approve of their post. No war. There seems to be interest amongst the other members for a feature like that.
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress