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Hi all
I am a strong supporter of our forum policy where bans are practically non existent. And I also use a lot the "ignore" button. However, obnoxious posters will populate a lot of threads with offensive/trolling content, and, even worst, start creating loads and loads of threads. I think that all threads should be kept, people can write what the hell they want, but it is also true that hatred filled threads will keep eventual new quality posters away.
So I have a suggestion which I do not know if is feasible, but anyway:
Threads could be ranked on each section not by latest post, but by some new metric called "relevance". It could just count the replies (but I do not think that would be good), or something like "replies per day" or per hour, or even some kind of rate/grade given by the own community. New threads (which would not be rated still) could be placed in a section called "new threads", before they are old/rated enough to be ranked with the rest.
This way a new poster that gets to the page don't immediately see something like "Nadal fans are a disgrace" (which in fact they are
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I am a strong supporter of our forum policy where bans are practically non existent. And I also use a lot the "ignore" button. However, obnoxious posters will populate a lot of threads with offensive/trolling content, and, even worst, start creating loads and loads of threads. I think that all threads should be kept, people can write what the hell they want, but it is also true that hatred filled threads will keep eventual new quality posters away.
So I have a suggestion which I do not know if is feasible, but anyway:
Threads could be ranked on each section not by latest post, but by some new metric called "relevance". It could just count the replies (but I do not think that would be good), or something like "replies per day" or per hour, or even some kind of rate/grade given by the own community. New threads (which would not be rated still) could be placed in a section called "new threads", before they are old/rated enough to be ranked with the rest.
This way a new poster that gets to the page don't immediately see something like "Nadal fans are a disgrace" (which in fact they are
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