Re^3: Limiting Spam posts, Trolls, Joe Jobs and other maleficence

not providing any incentive to create further bogus accounts.

I disagree. I've never heard of this phenomenon happening beyond a few very unusual cases. Trolls, in general, aren't after XP. In fact, many are happy to see their XP sink to plutonic lows. Some appear to have taken pride in the rate of their XP decline.

Thus, if anything, forcing them to abandon their accounts after reaching some negative XP threshold might be more of a disincentive.

A word spoken in Mind will reach its own level, in the objective world, by its own weight

Comment on Re^3: Limiting Spam posts, Trolls, Joe Jobs and other maleficence

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^4: Limiting Spam posts, Trolls, Joe Jobs and other maleficence by Herkum (Parson) on Feb 24, 2007 at 16:44 UTC
I was thinking about this and what if we just limited the amount of XP that a person could go down? It is highly unlikely someone who is serious would try to inch their way back into good graces from a score of -100 XP or so. Lets say once they reach -100 XP they cannot go any lower. It would deny those individuals the enjoyment of getting a descending score. If they did not care about XP and just wanted to troll then a cap would not anything to change their behavior, positively or negatively.	[reply]

Replies are listed 'Best First'.

Re^4: Limiting Spam posts, Trolls, Joe Jobs and other maleficence
by Herkum (Parson) on Feb 24, 2007 at 16:44 UTC

I was thinking about this and what if we just limited the amount of XP that a person could go down? It is highly unlikely someone who is serious would try to inch their way back into good graces from a score of -100 XP or so.

Lets say once they reach -100 XP they cannot go any lower. It would deny those individuals the enjoyment of getting a descending score.

If they did not care about XP and just wanted to troll then a cap would not anything to change their behavior, positively or negatively.

[reply]