Re: [Competition] Report spammers and pseudo-goodposters
@OP i will sponsor the second place winner and since i am sponsoring i am not participating in this competition. Posting my report history though to show i could be a contender 
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Thank you for providing smerits for second place. . Just to add onto this also. This is why I considered giving out payments, although that also has its drawbacks. Honestly, I couldn't care what the motives behind someone reporting is as long as they're not gaming the system. Therefore, I don't mind offering rewards up for users that are using the system properly, but as soon as payment is introduced I know that it will be gamed to no ends. I'm not a big fan of handing out merits for reporting, although I wouldn't critique anyone doing it as there's far worse things they could be wasted on.
I fully agree with your post especially with the part in bold. If a reward system like that got implemented I think that not everyone should be able to participate in it. It should be based on the stats of good reports, both quality and quantity wise. That way you would be dealing with a handful of members who already know what an off topic and spam post looks like. That minimises the possibility of abuse and gaming the system. Don't you think that this will solve issue with low quality reports?
[To avoid abuse each participant with 5% of fail reports during competition period will be kicked from competition (be sure that your report is legit, do not report every post because you are only making moderator's work harder).
5% might be too much but 2% will force competitiors to create as good reports as possible. It only does not solve this issue:But, people get greedy, and will game the system by creating alt accounts, and posting spam, and reporting it with their mains. Then, the original goal of the campaign of removing spam is void, and we are left dealing with more spam than original. It's a hard one, but the very core of the idea is a good one.
Which i'm not quite sure how to solve it for this comptetition. I'm also not sure if 3-10 merits are that much to made members put that much efford to win them. It is also much easier to find spam (f.e. in almost every megathread) than create alt to post spam to report it.
@Welsh Thank you very much for sharing your point of view with dealing with reports. It was very educating for me and will help to create quality reports for "pseudo-goodposters"
BTW do You, as staff member, have access to others "report to moderator" stats? Or only Theymos has it?