Can't say I disagree, but they are replacing the foums software so there's not much point in looking at what this system can do. The simplest immediate solution to the current issue would be to block trial accounts from posting at all, or limit them to a specific trial forum.
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Have to agree with Raveswing on this one, simplest solution is to limit the ability of trial acounts to post.
Of course, the real problem is NCSoft are understaffed...
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I suppose things could be set up so trial accounts get free access to the New Players forum and can freely read any other but posts to other forums require approval by a moderator but as Praf indicates this would require more staff to do this. I can't see GR being too happy if that much extra workload was thrown on him.
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I can't think of any forum software that has than installed natively. I certainly don't think it would be a huge task to implement though and I can definitely see the benefits.
From my minor knowledge of SMF you can assign board permissions to groups. Just have the defaut group have restricted permissions and then the Mods can set the permissions for new users to another group so they have global access.
This does mean more work for GR and would depend on how many new users there are each week.
if they just make it so trail accounts can only reply to a thread and read posts, then there is a lower chance of having a dossen of repeat threads.
Why should a new player, even if they're on a trial account, be restricted from taking part in the forum community just because one or two morons are making waves?
If people just didn't respond to the trolls, they'd eventually go away out of boredom.
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Why should a new player, even if they're on a trial account, be restricted from taking part in the forum community just because one or two morons are making waves?
If people just didn't respond to the trolls, they'd eventually go away out of boredom.
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Exactly. Trial account users have enough restrictions in game because of certian kind of people. No need to further hinder new people and give them a cold feet about CoX.
Also even some kind of immature person make that kind of posts, i don't see any need of replying his nonsense and make him bark one more time.
GhostRaptor clears that posts as soon as he spots them anyway.
So another /unsigned from me too.
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Why should a new player, even if they're on a trial account, be restricted from taking part in the forum community just because one or two morons are making waves?
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Which is why my OP suggests a system that would allow all posts with an automatically applied ban if enough other posters are finding their posts objectionable enough to notify the moderators about it.
I had another thread suggesting account restrictions - though that has been removed by the mods.
Assuming that you want to stop the one or two morons and their kind, the ideal situation is that idiots don't post - so no moderation is neccesary. Next up is permanently mod-staffed forums 24 hrs a day.. but I imagine that that costs too much else we'd have it.
An automatic system could address the problem and falls as an initially higher outlay, but presumed lower running costs - making the total cost of implementation lower in the long run. Hence suggesting an automatic-ban system.
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Problem is, your auto-ban suggestion is too easy to abuse.
No, sorry... I strongly feel that any decision to ban needs to be made buy a person, not influenced by board pressure. The trolls are nowhere near problematic enough to implement such a draconian feature, and your very suggestion is probably making them laugh; not to mention boosting their ego's.
The ONLY way to deal with a troll is to hit "Notify Moderator", followed by "Ignore this user". End of problem.
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The notify moderator button at the bottom of posts should be altered to keep track of the moderator notifications, both who is notifying and who posted the offending post, and should be altered to:
* Automatically prevent users from posting when they hit a set number of notifications against them in a 24 hour period, e.g. 50
* Stop users from notifying the moderator more than a set number of times in a 24 hr period, e.g. 10
Obviously the automatic ban could be lifted by the mods when they have chance to review the notifications, but in the event of imbecilic posters spamming the forums I'd hope that enough people would notify the mods to automatically stop any more scatalogical outbursts.
Placing limits upon the number of notifications that can be performed by a user, and making the number of these less than the number needed to autoban a user, could easily be used to prevent a single user (or small group) from using autobanning to grief another poster. I'd also assume that spurious notification for no good reason, or to grief, would result in mod action against the notifier.
No idea if this is supported on either the software currently used, nor on the board software that we're meant to be moving to at some point. If not supported, it may be worth finding someone to modify it.
As it is, the mods presumably look at every notification anyway - all this would do is hopefully stop the more juvenile posters from posting quite as much drivel.
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