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#15
Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post
Please use the "Report This" feature when you feel it is warranted. It has been almost two months since activity increased to where I'm unable to read every post in every thread.



I've no idea what's available for vBulletin in that regard, nor am I fully confident that such a system would work well. At Slashdot, for instance, the post ranking system simply traded one set of problems for another, and Engadget appears to be heading the same way.
I can only imagine what it's like to moderate this forum with the current growth in traffic.

I don't know what possibilities vBulletin offers either, nor what problems they are facing at Engadget, but the idea with "downranking posts into oblivion" is a good one as I assume it requires less interference from moderators. It becomes a peer moderated forum, and even though posts are downranked so they do not appear unless you click on them, they are still available.