Random ideas braindump

Posted Jul 29, 2010 3:16 UTC (Thu) by freemars (subscriber, #4235)
In reply to: Random ideas braindump by cesarb
Parent article: On comment spam

I favor letting newly registered members post comments, but paid members with enough seniority (maybe a year at the paid level) can mark comments as spam. The stuff marked as spam gets moved to a queue for a real editor to review. If the editor decides the message is legit the member who marked it as spam no longer is allowed to mark spam (but doesn't suffer in any other way).

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Random ideas braindump

Posted Jul 29, 2010 3:26 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]

> If the editor decides the message is legit the member who marked it as spam no longer is allowed to mark spam

It is best if this happens only after a few incorrect markings; after all, mouse slips happen.

I also think that what is relevant for seniority is time since the first non-spam comment from that account, not time with a paid subscription. If the user was a subscriber for a long time, but dropped to the non-paid level due to financial difficulties, plain forgetting to pay, or the account was a gift subscription and the user did not have a credit card at the time it expired, and the user subscribed again last week, that user should still be considered as having a lot of seniority.