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oxnsox

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#383164 22-Sep-2010 14:02

Satch: Good ideas.
What's the deal with the "Trusted" moniker? How does that get allocated?

They look at your Avatar.... We'd all trust The Family guy... right???

Great ideas and implementations GZ Team

michaelmurfy

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#383169 22-Sep-2010 14:06

Awesome idea.

I think another thing to do is to get users to introduce themselves before posting in the main forums, this way we get to know them and it helps weed out those users that create a profile, demand help, and then bugger off.

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nickb800

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#383181 22-Sep-2010 14:24

Good idea in theory, although you might want to consider the perverse incentives that it creates.
For example:
Bob joined geekzone just to post a rant about telecom customer services. Finds that he cannot post a new topic in the telecom forum until he has 10 posts. Instead of meaningfully engaging with the community over a week or month, he posts silly things like 'bump' across ten random threads to meet the minimum, and then he posts his rant.

Something to think about

freitasm

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#383183 22-Sep-2010 14:28

nickb800: Good idea in theory, although you might want to consider the perverse incentives that it creates.
For example:
Bob joined geekzone just to post a rant about telecom customer services. Finds that he cannot post a new topic in the telecom forum until he has 10 posts. Instead of meaningfully engaging with the community over a week or month, he posts silly things like 'bump' across ten random threads to meet the minimum, and then he posts his rant.

Something to think about

The "minimum" only applies to some forums where the possiblity of spam is higher - at the moment only the Offers/Wanted. The Geekzone forum is limited too because people post in the first forum they see, so we wanted to change that.

All other forums are open, so what you say won't happen.

Satch

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#383575 23-Sep-2010 12:16

oxnsox:
Satch: Good ideas.
What's the deal with the "Trusted" moniker? How does that get allocated?

They look at your Avatar.... We'd all trust The Family guy... right???

Great ideas and implementations GZ Team

Ha ha, yes.

I knew I should have gone with a donkey in long socks sitting down...

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