If you have 3 negative points, the signatures are automatically turned off.
If you have 10 negative points you are automatically banned.
Say you hate me: I have 4927 posts. If you go read them all, chances are you can find 3 (or 10) bad ones. Or even better: more than 3 of my posts have been deleted by moderators already, in over 3 years on this forum.
Does that mean I deserve a ban? I don't think so, and I've never been banned.
For the every rule you can have a different weight like for plagiarism you get directly 3 points, and autoban for 7 days.
Plagiarism gets you a permanent ban instantly. There's no need to lower the punishment.
For the every rule you can have a different weight like for plagiarism you get directly 3 points, and autoban for 7 days.
Also the pointing system can be Rank or post-count-dependent like for instance 3 bad reports for a Legendary with 10000 posts compared to 3 bad reports for a Newbie with 50 posts, need to have different Weight.
Agreed
But this shouldn't be automated.
Question for the Mods: does Bitcointalk keep track of bad posts per person, say a hidden field in the profile only visible for Mods? If it doesn't, I think this should be implemented, so Mods can easily see who's a repeat offender, and take action based on that.
A Newbie posting a referal link isn't a big problem, if he learns from it and stops posting them. I too had the great idea to earn money from posting a few referal links when I was a Newbie, until I got all of them back as Deleted Post in my PM:
Read June 30, 2015, 09:57:35 PM Deleted Post Bitcoin Forum
Read July 01, 2015, 08:11:10 AM Deleted Post Bitcoin Forum
Read July 01, 2015, 12:49:47 PM Deleted Post Bitcoin Forum
For the record: I didn't have a signature at that time. But I stopped posting reflinks.
If, however, a user doesn't learn from it and keeps spamming, he deserves a ban.
In the past year, some of my posts were deleted, when I answered a technical question which turned out to be a necrobump. I'm more careful now, but I don't think I deserve a punishment for that.