Post Quality counter

[skywallkee]

Hi, I'd like to suggest a thing that came alongside another post made on the forum regarding posts with a poor quality but high quantity.

The suggestion would be a post quality counter. Something that would have a formula close to the one "Forum reward" had. To elaborate it a little, this will be a score based on how many posts a user has and also what is the quality of these posts.

Just for the sake of the example, let's assume that the counter will be on a scale from -10 to 10. Each user will begin with a neutral score of 0. Now let's take two users:

User 1: has 10 posts, but all made in Off-Topic/Welcome categories or are monosyllabic/really short posts in any other category. This user should have a negative score, around -1 or -2.

User 2: has 10 posts, but all of them have been pretty long posts, even topics started, had images and also has some tutorials here and there. This user should have a positive score, again, between 1 and 2.

Now if User 1 continues spamming, at 100 trash posts, he'd have let's say -5/-6 score, and on the other side User 2 would go up to 3/4 score in the same post count. User 1 might decide that he wants to make a really good post, something that would have an impact on the community. Well, that one post should actually not bring him that much of a score, setting him higher with only 0.1 let's say. But on the other side, User 2 got bored and did a "Yes" post. This should affect his score more, lowering it by 0.2 let's say.

This way, it would be harder to get a higher score, but easier to get a lower score.

Why should this be implemented? Well, mods can check out low scored accounts and be able to hammer them and also this score can be a better criteria for joining giveaways than the post count as it reflects how much the user is involved in the community rather than how many useless posts they can make in a short amount of time without getting caught.

I know this might be a little tricky to implement, but I strongly believe that it should have a really good impact on the quality of the posts and how users behave on forum. Hopefully this might at least give the devs a better idea than mine to make the community a better place

[RoyalSteeze]

I think this is a wonderful concept you have laid out here for us, its tricky for the forum staff to reward active and constructive posts whilst not rewarding common posts or one word replies. I think they did away with the satoshi reward due to much abuse as usually happens with freebies, its unfortunate but lets keep this forum alive and well!

[Dan]

Where I am often an advocate for positive reinforcement, I also feel such things can tend to alienate people from contributing.

I believe what makes forums flourish is its contributors influence. If that influence is forced or manipulated to be shaped in a certain way, the "passion" (can find a better world later) is often diminished.