Not planned Thumbs Up. How about thumbs down?

[ARocks]

Ratio system is pretty good to cut down on leechers but how about you add a thumbs down near the like button ? this will help users give thumbs down (ratio down) to users who publish expired/ non working accounts. It will even keep the forum clean of those dead BS accounts that people publish. Maybe after a certain number of thumbs down, the owner of the account can get banned. Just a suggestion.

 

[miss.special]

3 things:

1. If the people would be reporting dead accounts every time they find them board would be mostly cleared of them.

2. However, some tool or script that will track how fast is an posted account dying from each user (after how many replies) might be useful to get a statistic about how good are posted accounts in general by each member that was posting them.

3. I don't agree that members who are posting accounts that die fast should be banned. Those are still working accounts and they are contributing with at least something which is better than posting nothing.

Cheers

 

[ARocks]

I never said banning people that post accounts that die fast, banning the one's that posts dead accounts from the first place just to get more ratio.

 

[kxp]

I am sorry but I don't quite get you.
At one point the forum doesn't want spammy posts (very natural), but most if not all giveaways require to post reply to un-hide the content. So this leads to users making tons of nonsense posts just to see what's hidden (even if it is outdated/dead).
Yes you wanna prevent leechers, but we're on a cracking forum ain't we? So everyone here probably knows about clear cookie/VPN and can make a new account whenever they get banned for spam. But most threads incourage spam at its best.

 

[ARocks]

that's true @kxp , but better do something than not doing anything, right?

 

[Jacob]

You can do the same thing by reporting dead links or accounts, when we close the thread or move it to dead section it becomes uncountable by the ratio system.
Therefore, you'll help us to keep the forums clean from useless stuff and you get your ratio up again.