[ikk157]

Glad to read your approval of the idea... I'm sure many feel the same and just NEED a tiny bit of coercion to comply with it. :-)

Not sure if you did read this: Lack of quality content, member contributions and interest (state of the community), the problem isn't new!.. It 's even the reason why I didn't start posting in here the day I registered in the forum, but waited till I saw the first thread topic that pushed me out of the anonymity to newbie status with 1 post count; the thread, by the way, was 'Controversial: Does God Exist?'.

There is no automatic(/scripted) way to assess posts quality, but SPAM is also easy to detect, be it one word or a 3-page manifest; moderators are here for that!..

The idea that I'm promoting is to hold hosted members to a pre-defined ratio (total credit points / total post numbers), be it 3, 4, 5 etc.. and why not make big specs VPSs requiring a bigger ratio than lower specs etc....

The thing this requirement brings to the table is to motivate hosted members to make more relevant threads and not just 20 posts averaging 2 or 3 sentences worth per post, saying nothing more than how happy / sorry / excited / looking forward to something or the like.... each and every month!... That's just sad!.. You can't build a forum worth checking on regularly with such content!...

Anyway, that's my 2 cents on this and it's up to the owner to deal with the consequences, ultimately.

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Edit: fixed a link.

You’ve just brought up yet another great point!

A lot of the discussion/posts here seem to be “induced”. You can really tell that some people are making their posts with zero passion. Sure they do end up being quality posts, but it’s just not the same as a post written by someone that’s actually interested on the topic! I always try to wait for proper topics or posts to respond to that I would actually find interesting... Preferably something that makes me think (even problem solve!)... that has made me really enjoy posting in here!

And also, just like you’ve mentioned, automating a system that can actually pick the “bad apples” from the good ones is insanely hard... you’ll need one extremely advanced AI. Specially one that would actually use artificial intelligence to give a post a certain credit score, rather than the current one that does it based on the character count.

And yes, the admins are doing a phenomenal job at getting rid of spam/low quality posts. However, some posts are of great quality... but they just lack some “love” from their writer (as I described above).

No clue how that can be rectified