Risker wrote:
I also have a real problem with the idea of anonymous
reporting
What issues do you have with anonymous reporting? On my forum I have reporting wide open
to the world, no login/membership
needed. Aside from spambots that can find any link, mostly what I've seen is more
biased reporting: Posters will report
transgressions by someone they don't like. In most cases, it is a real transgression
and something that needs cleaning up.
There are a few who narrowly interpret the rules (or make up their own), but those are
usually pretty obvious.
The only question on seeing obvious bias would be could it scale. You might need a
database of notes from prior decisions, or
maybe a trial period of watching other decisions for new adjudicators.
Many of our most seriously problematic sockpuppeting
accounts are people who've been blocked for behavioural reasons - and we waste a huge
amount of time trying to keep them off the site.
I definitely agree with this. Is there any way to track cellphone users? Their variable IP
addresses are as bad as the old
AOL days.
Janine