Hi,
I have seen that the mods have quite a lot of work: abuse reports, noob slaps, new registration approval, filtering noob posts, and still contributing to the community. I think I have a way to let the mods focus on helping keep the community clean without having to deal with all the approvals and whatnot. Why not have a group of members on the forums that are recommended by member vote and then staff approved that would be Honored Users.
These Honored Users would have the job of approvals of posts and would get a neat little image that says they are Honored as good members in the forums. Instead of having the long new member approval process, why not have the members that are new post 20 good posts approved by honored users and then the honored users would just check them off. The honored users would also be able to delete their own posts.
I think this would help the forums by honoring good members to the forum, and taking the new member stuff off the mods hands. Honored members could also do noob slaps. They would be good members and would know when things would be getting out of hand. The mods would be able to handel all that with moderation actions and keeping the forum in tact (abuse reports, stickies, etc.)
What do you think? This would allow good members to be recognized by the whole community and give the mods less work so they could worry more about the community itself than new members and flame wars.
What do you think about this idea?
Hey, I am a total noob to DBP, so if you would be kind enough to just help me along. I'm good with FPSC though, just learning DBP now.
