I feel like it's about time to give the people in the forums a little more power. After all, the mods can't do absolutely EVERYTHING. I think that we should be given the power to lock a thread after certain number of votes, and maybe the person who made the thread can just lock it themselves after a certain number of time. Also, we should be able to punish spammers, as in, after a certain number of votes against the spammer, the spammer loses 50 AP.
I mean, spam is EVERYWHERE, but it's not getting taken care of. For example, someone had the nerve to make a thread called "ahhhhhhhhhhhh". It is nothing but spam, but it's still going, three hours later. We should be able to stop these things, don't you agree?
I think that the mods are doing a great job, and they don't need help locking threads. if there is a spam thread, it will be deleted eventually. I someone is spamming, all you have to do is notify the mods. you do have the power to stop spammers. it's called the flag button. proper action will be taken eventually as long as you just notify the mods.
Lige has a great point. Just ignore the spammers. It ticks me off when I see a spammer psot one spam thread, then 20 people comment it saying "This is spam! LOCK!"
The people who keep posting in spam threads are the ones making the spam worse by keepign it bumped up. Though AG members have been much better about that lately. = )
If you want to help get rid of spam, simply ignore it and report it (but dont report every small spam article). Spam is realy not that bad at all on this site. It is only bad if you let the small amounts of spam here get to you.
No, disagree. The Mods are here to stop spam and let us have fun on this Gaming site. The site is about gaming, not the forums. The mods would crash and burn, and eventually, everyone would be a a mod.
Haha, too bad, but Dan names the mods, and he wouldn't name anyone not worthy....
And to be honest, this site is not just a gaming site. This site has a very good community, and many intelligent people to debate with. This site has revolutionized into a gaming AND community site in my opinion. And there's also spam on games, not just forums...
I honestly think that it is giving a little too much power to the regulars. With your spam idea, depending on the # of votes required, a team could gang up on a player they didn't like, and vote him down when he did not spam. talk to me on my prof for more.
more mods will be chosen as more members meet the criteria to become an AG moderator. Just give it time and someone shall rise up and punish the spammers!
Giving regular members mod powers would just make everyone power hungry. Think of the arguments the voting process would cause.
