All Things in Moderation

I vote batgirl.

Thanks Ivandh.  Your reponses always carry a lot of weight. While Thomas Jefferson said that the best government was the least government, he also felt that all governments should have a revolution every 20 years to keep them honest.  Since this isn't a government and the likelihood of a revolution is scant,

Poor batgirl...she'll be the only one allowed to post in the forums

Ok, y'all are now obsolete.  Last one to leave, please turn out the lights.

Can't see how that would that work for e.g. friends of trolls will work together to boost each other  points up. 

Allow members to rate posts, but give this privilege to only a few members in the beginning, the ones whose judgement can be absolutely relied on. The mods can do this. Once a member has made a certain number of positive votes, he get the privilege to vote other posts. This way hopefully, the newer members will be motivated to contribute something positive. 

Once the positively voted members reaches a fairly large number. A new section can be created where only the positively voted members can post, and no one else. Hopefully, this will attract, GMs to post, since the significant quality, will be higher, and the GMs will know they will not be attacked or will have to deal with any trolls.

And really, "whose judgment can be absolutely relied on"? I have to meet these people

This "option" is occasionally brought up by some members. It would never work here. Dialogue works much better than a click on a mouse. For instance, would it be better if I simply gave a "thumbs down" click to your post?

Also (as has been written previously), friends would simply click to get the privelege you write of-when writing why it is you agree or disagree is better.

The only reliability in judgement is a persons history and their last post.

When you find them, please introduce me.

Should peopele who create a forum be able to dictate who can or can't post (as it stands now)?

On some other sites possibly offending comments are hidden, you can still see each of these comments by clicking a "Show" button. I think this is much better than a complete ban by users.

And if staff and moderators would get tools to quickly view these "user moderated" comments, this could help them a lot to identify and moderate really offensive comments.