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Title: Category confusion in forum and software based solution idea
Post by: tesla80 on June 14, 2018, 10:29:24 AM
TL;DR
There are many topics opened in a wrong place in the forum.
The category confusing can be solved with software, for example if the moderator had to categorize 5+ topics of the same person within 2 months, that user could be blocked for 1 to 2 months from opening new topics.

Long version
I see that Bitcointalk forum becomes more and more popular & crowded.
As far as I can see in the forum, the majority create new topics in the most watched categories. Most of these topics have not related to that category and should actually have been opened in a different category, but people are opening them up to the populace at the request of sight.
This makes those populace places untraceable.

Besides, the most valuable topics that are opened in non-populous categories are not very popular. As a result, there is only one category that is inflated, others stay weak.

Moderators move some wrongly placed topics in the right categories as much as they can, but if the people are educated, this effort will not be needed at all, so we do not pay moderators.

The category confusing can be solved with software, for example if the moderator had to categorize 5+ topics of the same person within 2 months, that user could be blocked for 1 to 2 months from opening new topics.

Sincerely.


Title: Re: Category confusion in forum and software based solution idea
Post by: Strufmbae on June 14, 2018, 10:33:36 AM
Do you have an example image of your software?  How can you say that it would be helpful to the forum?


Title: Re: Category confusion in forum and software based solution idea
Post by: tesla80 on June 14, 2018, 10:57:19 AM
Do you have an example image of your software?  How can you say that it would be helpful to the forum?
Explanation
This is an idea and there is no external software, the idea can be implemented in the forum code like merit system to improve quality of the forum.
There can be a counter for moved topics of user by moderator. If moderator moved a topic of user, this counter can increase and date-time can be recorded. Using a simple date-time (in 2 months) and counter threshold (5+ moved topics) comparison, the rule can be executed and the user can be banned from opening new topics with the same comparison. So if counter is bigger than 5 and last moved topic date is <14.06.2018>, then user cannot open new topics until (lets say) 1 month later which is <14.07.2018>. If the date is older than <1 month>, then the counter can be zeroed if it is not zero.
This is not a hard implementation, very simple but effective. We know that moderators moves topics because of a single reason, thus the topic is opened in a wrong place.

I think currently moderators lose their time by moving wrong topics, but they would check another stuff instead of this. My idea can reduce the effort of wrong topics.