After reading a "certain" post yesterday which upset me a bit and reading some good comments and suggestions from other admins, I think it's about time now to change some stuff here.
First off, I think it's a good idea to let the stars indicate the support a user has given, not the more or less useless stuff he discussed about in off topic. Therefor, off topic posts should no more be added into the total postcount, and therefor don't affect the stars count any more - I can easily imagine some users posts count getting cut down by more than half by doing that. But as another plan is to hide the number of posts, I doubt this should really matter in any way.
Why you may ask ? Well, the stars will then indicate the posts in the "main" forums of this board, where the goal actually is to help people.
Further more, we'll soon (possibly already this weekend depending on how the test works out and the new vB upgrade works) introduce a so called "ban points" system. That means that really, really useless posts (many of us have a high tollerance, but there're tons of these here), illegal content, offending stuff, totally mis-placed posts etc. will recive a certain number of ban points. Once you reach 20, the forums will automaticly ban you for 30 days, and un-ban you again after that. The second time this happens to an user, it won't unban you though.
Don't worry though, ban points also expire after a certain amount of days (not sure yet how many), that means you'll need to be on a spam trip during one week to actually reach 20 points.
Comments are welcome, more changes will be added to this post later on.
First off, I think it's a good idea to let the stars indicate the support a user has given, not the more or less useless stuff he discussed about in off topic. Therefor, off topic posts should no more be added into the total postcount, and therefor don't affect the stars count any more - I can easily imagine some users posts count getting cut down by more than half by doing that. But as another plan is to hide the number of posts, I doubt this should really matter in any way.
Why you may ask ? Well, the stars will then indicate the posts in the "main" forums of this board, where the goal actually is to help people.
Further more, we'll soon (possibly already this weekend depending on how the test works out and the new vB upgrade works) introduce a so called "ban points" system. That means that really, really useless posts (many of us have a high tollerance, but there're tons of these here), illegal content, offending stuff, totally mis-placed posts etc. will recive a certain number of ban points. Once you reach 20, the forums will automaticly ban you for 30 days, and un-ban you again after that. The second time this happens to an user, it won't unban you though.
Don't worry though, ban points also expire after a certain amount of days (not sure yet how many), that means you'll need to be on a spam trip during one week to actually reach 20 points.
Comments are welcome, more changes will be added to this post later on.
'tis a BAD time to be a L.A.M.E.R. now. 
