Topic: Proposal: activity penalty for necroposts (Read 646 times)

laffo, ok, so he made spamming more difficult by requiring people to spam more. That'll work out great.

In other words, we're proposing to turn a measure of activity into something which is not a measure of activity.

I must point out, people who necropost aren't trying to boost their activity rating; they're simply clueless as to the etiquette of forums, which is, "We don't like necroposting so please stop."  Because activity is not measured by the age of the threads you post in, but by post count limited by the threshold of how many two-week spans you're online, it should make no reflection on activity that a member would feel the need to necropost for this purpose.

Therefor, unwanted necroposting is done solely by people who are, likely, searching for a thread they like and not realizing just how old that thread is.  Rather than punishing the person for something they're not realizing they're doing (or in some cases, as has happened before with a member necrospamming in any thread related to Jews, which should be met with direct mod action), a more productive solution would be to include a warning upon hitting the post button (as is the case when posting after a reply has been made) when a member is posting in a thread older than, say, six months--or, if we really wanted to kill necroposting, threads could be auto-locked and archived after a certain time period.  But to attack a person's activity rating after the deed is done will not serve to help anyone in any way; the old thread is still there.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2702160

I can't agree with you more

Really? Ok, that's kinda absurd.

You might not have gotten the memo, but the ability to send PMs is linked to penis size activity.

There's the real problem right there.

The fact is that people who get scammed by these spammers do value that number
The better would be to display nothing. Or registration date.

You're assigning some arbitrary value to that number on the left there again. Like people did with the postcount. Which was the reason why postcount got removed in the first place.

Here is a Public Service Announcement: Penis size is unrelated to either activity or postcount size. No one cares about activity or postcount size. If you DO care aout activity or postcount size nonetheless, please stay calm, sit down in a quiet place and wait for help to arrive. A unit of helper monkey will be dispatched as soon as possible.

Another approach that I have been playing with is the idea of ratings that cost you your own rating points to give (either positive or negative).

If you make it hard to get the points (be it # of posts or time) then the cost of using such points (being scarce) is not so likely to be wasted.

I see a lot of 2011 and 2012 threads getting new posts, usually by relatively new users making lots of short (one or two line) posts.

Giving a permanent -10 penalty to activity rating would make this activity useless for people hoping to boost their activity for PM or trust purposes, but not be overly punitive for people that really think that an old thread deserves a new read.

Also, I mentioned it in a different thread, but figure it is worth repeating here.  Ignores earned should deduct from activity, either actual activity or effective activity used for spamming.