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Jon Ward

I have received complaints about the quality of some of the threads and messages posted to the forum these days.

If I see a thread that is out of control, I can and do mark it as Read-Only. This effectively shuts down the thread. However, I just don't see a majority of the rogue threads.

So, my question is, should we try to inhibit the noise and improve the quality of the responses in some way? For example,

  • We could institute a weighted voting system of some kind to limit the noise. Threads with too many negative votes would be closed (read-only). Messages with too many negative votes would be removed.
  • We could require forum users to login to reply to message threads. I would only want to do this if we can make it painless for legitimate users.

Let me know your thoughts and feelings on this.

Jon

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  • 0 in reply to Jack Sprat

    "Well, I'm not sure that many of the responses that the troll/lost noob category receive really count as help."

    I was talking about the look of the original post, where a lot of noobs produces very similar requests as the trolls.

    Its on the second, third, forth post that the trolls and the noobs diverge, but without some form of moderation, then it is too late to stop the rolling snowball. With many real threads ongoing, the trolls gets gets ignored but on slow days, the people on this forum has to be able to offload some comments somewhere ;)

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  • 0 in reply to Jack Sprat

    "Well, I'm not sure that many of the responses that the troll/lost noob category receive really count as help."

    I was talking about the look of the original post, where a lot of noobs produces very similar requests as the trolls.

    Its on the second, third, forth post that the trolls and the noobs diverge, but without some form of moderation, then it is too late to stop the rolling snowball. With many real threads ongoing, the trolls gets gets ignored but on slow days, the people on this forum has to be able to offload some comments somewhere ;)

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  • 0 in reply to ImPer Westermark

    "...but on slow days, the people on this forum has to be able to offload some comments somewhere ;)"

    I cannot speak on behalf of everybody, but I never considered this forum to be a kind of therapy :-)

  • 0 in reply to Tamira Michael

    Yes, it is quote often students who manages to find this forum and starts to spread havoc.

    In some situations, it might be nice with an updated Terms of Use, containing a note that posters are tracked, and students abusing this site will be reported to their relevant school administration.

    Yes, I know that the problematic students are not reading the terms. But anyone on this forum can post a link to the information, and also quote that text.

    If such information is officially mentioned on the Keil site, it might possibly get some students to be a bit more carefull after having been warned. Moral compass is one thing. An explicit threat of a meting with the school principal may mean something.