Suggestions for Jupiter Media

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Originally posted here by JP
Greetings All:

The AntiPoints system may ban you, close your thread, or hide your posts, based on what a consensus of many members think. Keep in mind, the alternative to that, is having single individuals make those decisions by themselves (aka a moderator or two).

Most people, early on, made it very clear that freedom of speech was very important to them. I think those very same people might now be neglecting to take into consideration what having a single person, or a of couple of people, dictate what is / is not appropriate for you to say, instead of leaving that decision up to the consensus of the forums as a whole.

Many of you are concentrating on how "unfair" a single AntiPoint assignment can be. Remember, a single AntiPoint assignment can't do anything to you, or your thread. It takes many many assignments from many many different people to have a true effect on you. However, a single moderator certainly could have instant and unilateral effects on you.

Also, everyone agrees that these forums are VERY clean of spam and abusive threads, like you'll see plaguing other forums. Why do you think that is? It's because if one of these abusive users appear, the users of the forum have a collective power to instantly rid the forums of them. If you switch things over to human moderators, these people, and threads, remain until one of the human moderators happens to log on, whenever that may be. A user could literally and very easily spam the forums with dozens and dozens of posts before a human moderator would catch them.

In short, be careful what you ask for, because you just might get it, and I have a very strong feeling that once you do, you're not going to like it.......

We don't like it already, JP. You haven't been gone long and already it starts.

"Some men you just can't reach, so you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. But I don't like it, anymore than you men." -Cool Hand Luke