What are everyone's ideas for improving post quality?
I have mostly ruled out:
- Removing signatures or sig ads globally.
- Requiring payment to wear sig ads.
- Banning account sales.
Very Logical.
1. To attain ranks above Member, you'd have to earn some number of merit points. Merit points would be awarded in a monthly vote on best posts of the previous month, with various measures (TBD) to prevent gaming of the vote. Winning merit points might also come with a BTC prize.
While I'm okay with the idea, 'voting' part turns me off.If the votes would be carried out publicly,there are higher chances of alts/shill accounts voting each other or getting votes by paying others.
2. Create or designate some sections as "serious discussion" sections, with no signatures. In those sections or maybe in different ones, also have poster restrictions such as Member rank or above only. And/or allow topic-creators to set these restrictions on their topics, similar to selfmod topics.
That would be kind of unfair to people who genuinely want to contribute to the topic but don't have a higher rank.Restricting signatures or members would have exceptions like a very good quality poster may have a signature and would definitely add good inputs to the topic.
Topic creators can still start self-moderated threads and impose those rules in the post.
What do you think of these ideas, and what other ideas do people have?
I think approval for signatures should be done case-by-case basis by a team of members dedicated to do so.I know this doesn't sound feasible but if you had around 500+ members who could review accounts and somehow automate the process,we will only see quality posters with signatures.