Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 11:04:11 12/27/05
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On December 27, 2005 at 00:51:50, Jürgen Ecker wrote: >Hi Stuart, > >the vBulletin sorts the most recently replied thread by default to the top, so >the newest and current thread is always the first you see. I think this is a >good feature, because you see very fast what's the current discussion at the >board. You also mustn't search for the current discussion. >But there is also a hack for sorting the threads in other ways, like the date of >the threadbeginning. So it will be represented like in the CCC. > >Of course there is the problem, that some users will try to bump their threads >to the top, but this will be an issue for moderation. I would handle it in a way >of warning this user. If a user has an specified level of warning he will be >baned for some time or forever. > >The troll problem can be solved by the 'global ignore user'-function. This works >like this: the troll posts and his posting will be seen by himself, but not by >the other users, so they can't and won't reply on his posting. After several >times he will mention, that his posting are not interesting and he will go away. > >Jürgen Ecker > >>Jürgen, >> >>Does vBulletin push the most-recently replied-to thread to the top of >>the physical screen? >> >>Stuart I do like the push-recent-to-top but perhaps an anti-troll feature would be to push-most-heavily-posted-recently to top? That way trolls couldn't get the delight of pushing any thread to the top. They'd have to overpost on a single thread and that would reveal their true troll-like nature. So say a thread has 30 posts already. A post to it would increase it by 3.33%. Let's say the threshold is 10%. So actually 3 posts within a period of N would be required for it to push to the top. One thought... Greetings, Stuart
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