With all these threads about bad apples, adult links, etc. in the coop, I thought I would throw an idea out there. Shawn, I know you are already working on something, but here's at least some food for thought: 1) An area, either in the forums, or accessible from within the coop member area for reporting questionable/bad sites. 2) Categories for reporting based on specific violations of TOS - adult, spam, hidden links, etc. 3) You enter a site, and can put a few comments in about why you as a coop member do not like the site. 4) Other coop members either get e-mail alerts (optional) or can check the lists regularly. 5) coop members vote on the site for x days. (maybe 10) 6) if the voting is going bad - 5-1 or 10-1 ratio against the site, the site is temporarily suspended pending outcome of the complete voting cycle. 7) Each coop member gets one vote per domain. 8) If you bring up 5 sites which are accepted by the community, your reporting rights are temporarily suspended. 9) If you own 2 suspended sites, you must report all other domains you own for review. 10) a suspended site can be reinstated once after corrections are purportedly made, but if it doesn't make 45 days without getting suspended again, it is gone forever. This kind of system supports a "community standards" model. The community as a whole gets to determine what falls on which side of the grey area. I think most of us are accepting of light grey, but we greatly differ on the lines that once crossed are unacceptable. The people who talk in the forums are not the only people on the coop network, so if we leave it up to the forums for discussion we are ignoring a significant portion of the community and we are encouraging "squeaky wheels" who try to set the community standards by overposting and general obnoxiousness that all of us have seen too much of before in online forums.
The concept is a good idea I think, with Shawns refinement I think we've got something here. BTW I didn't understand this point
I think he means that say if you bring up 5 sites; and noone else in the community agrees that the sites are wrong; then you cannot complain about it for x amount of time..
exactly flawebworks. That way, the community isn't bombarded with one person complaining nonstop about sites which the rest of the community feels is allright. If you have 10 sites to review every day, nobody will login and vote, but if there are just a few on occasion people are more likely to take notice. When I was thinking about this, my two biggest concerns were abuse of the system and making the system simple and useful enough for people to utilize it. Just a suggestion though. I hope something similar or smarter comes along.