Quote from: Timelord2067 on April 09, 2022, 12:05:37 AM

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Can I ask the various investigators here what your thoughts are on newbies and jr members posting investigations here? I don't want to turn this thread into a moderated thread, however, there is growing unrest caused by investigations that have inaccurate information as evidenced this week resulting in my decision to ask Teletalk.org not to post for the remainder of this year ^{(and they stopped posting for over a week)} then a brand new user is created immediately thereafter and began posting findings.

PM me, or post your thoughts here.

Not sure if I'm within the circle of this investigators since my contribution for this sector is very low, but my two cents for this issue at hand fall alongside the line of what lovesmayfamilis said

Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on April 09, 2022, 09:50:22 AM

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What can be done here? For DT participants, this is a complete verification of their evidence, and only after verification, a decision is made and a mark in trust management.
Also, the more newbie investigations get merits, the more rubbish you will see in this thread.

I believe it is not a secret that those newbies coming here with half effort on their findings is to chase merits, thus, "the more newbie investigations get merits, the more rubbish you will see in this thread." although I have to beg to slightly differ, as probably some newbies or low ranked members did a wholesome effort on their investigations.

I am agree that the most efficient way to prevent "merit abuse" on this thread lies on the hand of the merit giver to hold themselves from giving merits so easily, and DT to properly review the reports made both by newbies or other questionable report with weak proof and then properly tag those who deserve red tag.

A slight difference that I have in mind from lovesmayfamilis is the classic reward and punishment system. Merit is what lures newbies to come to this thread giving dubious reports, so let's introduce its counterpart: the punishment.

Not a punishment per se, just a neutral tag on the accounts who frequently give baseless findings. That tag would serve as a side note for proper investigators, BM, and DT to address the urgency of the reports. Newbies with several neutral tags stating they have multiple false reports would indicate they have a tendency to do half assed investigation, and thus their reports didn't deserve an urgency to be checked. On the contrary, they deserve the ignore button if they continue on bringing false-investigation at their hand.

No harm done for those account itself, they're not tagged with red so they can still get access to most things on this forum, their post will just not appeared properly on this thread for those who hit ignore button on their account, thus preventing them from gaining merit in the future from this thread even if those future investigations are deep and thorough. With this, by a "threat" that their efforts will gave them nothing --and even worse, it'll probably hinder them from gaining merit in the future-- hopefully it'll encourage them to double check their "findings" before reporting it.

The ignore button will also saving this thread cohabitant's --read: the investigators, BM, and DT-- time from reinvestigating accounts that is not actually in need to be investigated.