This is going to take awhile, but I think it will work.

1) Make a page displaying the rules, shortly before the first time you enter Flamebate, that you’ll need to click yes or no to.

2) Only allow one report per person per page of thread. This will help prevent tons of spam of reporting.

3) Add some more mods, but only give them the power to look through bug reports and reported posts. Again, this will lessen the workload on the mods, and these people can just pbum along the “important” stuff.

4) When reporting anything at all, give a level of importance. e.g. Shock is priority 1, trolling is priority 5.

These are ideas on how to restructure Flamebate, so that it’s more manageable by the mods and such.

The reason this is posted in GD is due to it being a completely serious thread with helpful suggestions, and that it would simply be trolled to oblivion in GRP.

For a critique of the rules, see this thread.

Yeh. Make the current mods like Mod Leaders, and then have mods specifically in charge of the forums, that can ban for up to 3 days (while a Mod Leader checks the case to see if harsher penalties are in order.)

Forum Mods can lock/move threads, edit, but not award peens or stuff.

*Waits for SG94 to bring this to the mods attention as being serious trolling in GD*

As you may know, we’re planning to do a revamp of Flamebate in general. All these ideas are quite good and we’ll definitely keep them under consideration when the time comes to implement our changes. Thanks for posting this!