The "Ban Bomb" - GLP's Answer for better posters?

OP you really are pathetic. Is this how you deal with all things in life, by trying to devise means of censoring speech. And a shameless attempt at brown nosing too - you have to be the lamest GLPer ever

But is that banning an individual or a whole bunch of folks who did nothing but use the same internet provider.

Well, then maybe a system where when folks sign up they can declare themselves, liberal, conservative or neutral.

I dunno?

I knew you were trolling.

Are you aware that a lot of people are banned from GLP already because, presumably, of what they say.

Typical Liberal 'freedom of speech as long as we agree with what you say' attitude.

Actually, I'm really trying to propose some solution here, because I don't like banning, though, I can concede that it's an "evil necessity."

If an alternative solution is not reasoned with we can all expect the old banning system to be returned.

It's just an idea. Trinity really has trouble with some folks here. I figure a system that could police itself could work. I could be wrong, though.

You have any ideas to offer?

OP, by your logic there is something inherently "better" in enabling cliques of like minded folks to anonymously be able to ban those they dislike? not a very well thought out scheme

You've seen the way people karma-farm around here? The system would simply be abused. People would stock up on ban bombs and drop all 5 at once for even the slightest infringement. Even if you were to limit the number of "bombs" a poster could drop to something like one a day, people would just create multiple accounts and still bombard someone. And if they took a particular dislike to someone, they'd wait for the 72 hours to end and bomb them back to banville.

Do you want nice or do you want truth?
The two are rarely the same.

Right, brief runs around reporting abusive posts. Can you imagine giving him the power to ban people?

What if you can trade your karma points for a "ban bomb" and folks can do the banning, but it would take maybe 5 ban bombs to finally get someone banned and it would be for like three days?

The ban bomber could select choices for reasons why he or she is dropping the bomb on a poster, say "Poster was rude," or "Poster did not do their research," and its non attributable.

And if someone were to get ban bombed they would see a page pop up as a warning saying

"someone has ban bombed you. Four more bombs and you'll be banned for 72 hours. You should try to be nicer" or "you should try to be smarter"

Oh and just to be cute, under the person's name could be little bomb icons for how many hits he or she has taken (red bombs) and another for how many are in their arsenal (green bombs), hahahaha.

Also, the hits a person has taken should reset to zero if they managed to be good long enough (maybe two weeks?)and not take any more hits

What do you think Trin?

Well the rules could be changed to make it fair, for example only registered people could use "ban bombs," if you ban bomb too often your anonymity would be given away (it could warn you before that happens).

There really are some very mean spirited folks, and unfortunately negative reinforcement seems the only way to change behavior. It's just too bad the current system seems indiscriminate.

I don't think so.

That sort of system would be abused.

No one has any business banning anyone here aside from the mods.

It's just an idea. Trinity really has trouble with some folks here. I figure a system that could police itself could work. I could be wrong, though.

You have any ideas to offer?

What if you can trade your karma points for a "ban bomb" and folks can do the banning, but it would take maybe 5 ban bombs to finally get someone banned and it would be for like three days?

The ban bomber could select choices for reasons why he or she is dropping the bomb on a poster, say "Poster was rude," or "Poster did not do their research," and its non attributable.

And if someone were to get ban bombed they would see a page pop up as a warning saying

"someone has ban bombed you. Four more bombs and you'll be banned for 72 hours. You should try to be nicer" or "you should try to be smarter"

Oh and just to be cute, under the person's name could be little bomb icons for how many hits he or she has taken (red bombs) and another for how many are in their arsenal (green bombs), hahahaha.

Also, the hits a person has taken should reset to zero if they managed to be good long enough (maybe two weeks?)and not take any more hits

What do you think Trin?

:mfgame:
Sorry, but I honestly think this is a terrible idea.

What if you can trade your karma points for a "ban bomb" and folks can do the banning, but it would take maybe 5 ban bombs to finally get someone banned and it would be for like three days?

The ban bomber could select choices for reasons why he or she is dropping the bomb on a poster, say "Poster was rude," or "Poster did not do their research," and its non attributable.

And if someone were to get ban bombed they would see a page pop up as a warning saying

"someone has ban bombed you. Four more bombs and you'll be banned for 72 hours. You should try to be nicer" or "you should try to be smarter"

Oh and just to be cute, under the person's name could be little bomb icons for how many hits he or she has taken (red bombs) and another for how many are in their arsenal (green bombs), hahahaha.

Also, the hits a person has taken should reset to zero if they managed to be good long enough (maybe two weeks?)and not take any more hits

What do you think Trin?

:mfgame:
Sorry, but I honestly think this is a terrible idea.

What if you can trade your karma points for a "ban bomb" and folks can do the banning, but it would take maybe 5 ban bombs to finally get someone banned and it would be for like three days?

The ban bomber could select choices for reasons why he or she is dropping the bomb on a poster, say "Poster was rude," or "Poster did not do their research," and its non attributable.

And if someone were to get ban bombed they would see a page pop up as a warning saying

"someone has ban bombed you. Four more bombs and you'll be banned for 72 hours. You should try to be nicer" or "you should try to be smarter"

Oh and just to be cute, under the person's name could be little bomb icons for how many hits he or she has taken (red bombs) and another for how many are in their arsenal (green bombs), hahahaha.

Also, the hits a person has taken should reset to zero if they managed to be good long enough (maybe two weeks?)and not take any more hits

What do you think Trin?