Situation: MSL finals just finished. I am browsing to the live report thread to see what other people think of this. I stumple upon way too many shitty posts from people < 500 post count. I don't want to read their uneducated opinion. Most of them are probably sc2 nerds.

Proposed solution: Make it possible for the browser (eg: me) to not see posts from users with a post count lower than X, where X is adjustable by the browser. The low-post-count-posts could for example be faded out.

I know there are shitty high count posters (CM) and there are probably good low post counters. But there is only one CM and the low post counters will get high anyway, later on.

zatic

Zurich15357 Posts

May 29 2010 12:07 GMT

Not going to happen. Post count is no indication of posting quality. Also live report threads are just terrible and always have been, just accept that.

Meat

Netherlands3751 Posts

May 29 2010 13:21 GMT

unfortunately i cant read this thread, i can only see posts from users with >2000 posts

p4NDemik

United States13896 Posts

May 30 2010 06:02 GMT

Can I have a feature that fades out any poster who has made more than 500 posts in the last week? Now that would surely filter out spam

mOnion

United States5657 Posts

May 30 2010 07:48 GMT

shitty posts ARE what make LR threads so ridiculously awesome. its just a clusterfuck of the first thing that pops into peoples minds.

konadora

Singapore66357 Posts

May 30 2010 10:39 GMT

but you'll just be removing the sheer luls and awesomeness that makes LR threads fun to read lol

Phrujbaz

Netherlands512 Posts

May 30 2010 12:02 GMT

A slashdot like system where people can vote really bad comments down, might work. So you'd be able to fade out posts that are just really, really bad, but keep the threshold high enough that it won't be too easy to abuse it.

Edit: http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml#cm600 is an explanation of the slashdot moderation system.

In summary, you'd have a rather large number of "moderators" where each moderator can influence the reputation of posts. When a post has a bad reputation, it's not shown by default. So people that post crap would see their posts disappear.

Pokebunny

United States10654 Posts

May 30 2010 13:37 GMT

On May 30 2010 16:48 mOnion wrote:
shitty posts ARE what make LR threads so ridiculously awesome. is just a clusterfuck of the first thing that pops into peoples minds.

Hahaha, totally agree.

You scroll through and laugh at people going OMG WTF JUST HAPPENEDJI1H2OI12O?!?!

OhThatDang

United States4685 Posts

May 30 2010 20:01 GMT

wow im sorry but that is the worst thing u can do and possibly ask for aha ~_~

are u trying to make tl seem more un-welcoming?

IntoTheWow

is awesome32277 Posts

May 30 2010 21:37 GMT

#10

On May 30 2010 21:02 Phrujbaz wrote:
A slashdot like system where people can vote really bad comments down, might work. So you'd be able to fade out posts that are just really, really bad, but keep the threshold high enough that it won't be too easy to abuse it.

Edit: http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml#cm600 is an explanation of the slashdot moderation system.

In summary, you'd have a rather large number of "moderators" where each moderator can influence the reputation of posts. When a post has a bad reputation, it's not shown by default. So people that post crap would see their posts disappear.

sounds like a powerful weapon for flash fans.

Trezeguet

United States2656 Posts

May 31 2010 01:41 GMT

#11

On May 31 2010 06:37 IntoTheWow wrote:

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sounds like a powerful weapon for flash fans.

yeah, just imagine a flash/jaedong or imba thread. It would be dominated by whichever clan has a larger following.

New Zealand6138 Posts

May 31 2010 04:23 GMT

#12

Jesus H. Christ.

minus_human

4784 Posts

May 31 2010 04:27 GMT

#13

I can only read what Haji and FA post.

Come on, LRs have always been like that, it's a way of maintaining the crazy-hype atmosphere.
What I dislike in those threads is whenever an uneducated analysis is made on the spot of the current game, it's usually bullshit, and that's why I tend do ignore longer posts.

semantics

10040 Posts

May 31 2010 05:02 GMT

#14

Where is the option to fade out all the people who are zealots/goons/zerglings

Phrujbaz

Netherlands512 Posts

May 31 2010 07:49 GMT

#15

On May 31 2010 10:41 Trezeguet23 wrote:

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yeah, just imagine a flash/jaedong or imba thread. It would be dominated by whichever clan has a larger following.

People with downvoting power still have to be appointed moderators. Pick people who will moderate responsibly.

At the same time, the power is comparatively limited, so a large number of people can be appointed.

Divinek

Canada4045 Posts

May 31 2010 09:05 GMT

#16

On May 30 2010 22:37 Pokebunny wrote:

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Hahaha, totally agree.

You scroll through and laugh at people going OMG WTF JUST HAPPENEDJI1H2OI12O?!?!

yeah even though shitty spam is annoying it's like the one place where it seems to fit and not really detract from quality

i mean if im reading through the lr of a game id rather see 'OMG REVA REVA REVAAAAAA' than

oh, well, bisu did indeed execute that reaver drop rather well

olof

Sweden254 Posts

May 31 2010 10:50 GMT

#17

On May 29 2010 19:19 Navane wrote:Proposed solution: Make it possible for the browser (eg: me) to not see posts from users with a post count lower than X, where X is adjustable by the browser. The low-post-count-posts could for example be faded out.

So if I want my opinion to be heard I have to make alot of posts? ~~

Postcount isn't related to broodwarskill or esportsknowledge.

flamewheel

FREEAGLELAND26781 Posts

May 31 2010 18:02 GMT

#18

On May 31 2010 14:02 semantics wrote:
Where is the option to fade out all the people who are zealots/goons/zerglings

Don't hate on the Harems.

reincremate

China2216 Posts

May 31 2010 18:46 GMT

#19

On May 29 2010 19:19 Navane wrote:
I know there are shitty high count posters (CM) and there are probably good low post counters. But there is only one CM and the low post counters will get high anyway, later on.

I don't see how low post counts can prevent us from getting high now.