Welcome to the Lounge

1. The "abuse report" should be disabled for older messages
   This would limit "abuse wars" where someone goes back and tags all of a poster's messages.
2. The filter should have a time component
   There is a difference between someone who posted two abusive messages in the last year, and someone who posted two abusive messages in the last day.
3. The filter should allow for the number and quality of messages posted
   This allows for human error - in both directions. A prolific poster is more likely to be tagged by accident than an occasional poster, and is also more likely to say something to which objection may be taken.
4. The filter should require reports from more than a small number of people
   This would tend to filter out "abuse wars", where a group of friends attempt to get someone banned.
5. Human judgment should be exercised
   This is the most problematic part.
   As we are dealing with people's reputations, I feel that a human should review the reports before someone is tarred, feathered, and ridden out of CP on a rail . This is especially true in borderline cases.

1. Reset the abuse votes (and the rep points thereof) after say, 5 days, if the reported message doesn't get the predefined number of abuse votes (so as to get nuked off).

Agent__007 wrote:

Reset the abuse votes (and the rep points thereof) after say, 5 days, if the reported message doesn't get the predefined number of abuse votes

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:

this would require keeping a log of the time of each abuse vote on a per-message basis

Brady Kelly wrote:

for any thinking reader

Quote:

expired way back in June 1990.