Brett_Tabke - 4:13 am on Mar 22, 2002 (gmt 0)

> How big of an issue is it?

My 3 a day was an under estimate. A couple mods reminded me of a few 15+ days just last week. It's very definately a growing concern because of the amount of time it takes to deal with each one. We take any action involving user messages very seriously. There is no other forum that I know of that holds user messages in such esteem as we do. No other forum respects copyrights and user contributions the way we do.

>cannot accurately assess that by looking solely at their post count.

No you can't WG, that's true. How about adding "byte count" to the profile?
I will add, that if private forums counted to post counts there'd be alot of mods with 5+k to their post counts. There's 40k msgs in mods/admin forums, most of which is discussions of the above issues. Every time there is an edit, there is a post and an explantion as to why. We always cross check each others work.

Three out of stickymail:

1: > So give us some expert rank?
2: > Member Plonk files?
3: > Message or thread scoring?

We thought along each of those lines.

We aren't fond of the first two. If there is a perpetual problem with a member it should be delt with off the board. We do a bit of that, but haven't had any real continuing troubles.

The third one is interesting. There are a couple of ways that you could do that:

a: a plus or minue +/- next to a message to allow senior members to score posts plus or minus. Members could then set a rank level of only those msgs they wish to see. The trouble in the forum format is that we tend to wander a bit (this thread for example) all around topics and they are related. That's both the strong points and weak points of the flat message thread format.