Community Issues

30-11-2015, 07:01 PM

Ares Wrote: Then why not start off with warning or banning users that go off-topic and/or just spam threads with useless shit?

So answer me a question, if you had a site that was somewhat successful.. would you want to get trigger happy and ban all of the people that are bringing your site activity? If everyone is doing it then who's there to blame? That's the problem within the site as of now, Low Quality posting is almost natural for people, they don't even notice they're in the wrong. And if you ban one, then you're going to have to ban the rest. Which leaves you with the people saying they're "HQ" and have 200 posts. Boom, there goes your activity.

The best thing to do, would be take these situations more cautiously; try and produce better content to provoke more High Quality posts and then whenever the majority becomes HQ again, that leaves room to ban off the LQ people that simply don't know how to contribute. Otherwise, you're almost certainly going to put your forum in a body bag.