The reason I am saying this is of experience on boards with a higher traffic. Again, try http://www.perlmonks.org.
Perlmonks hardly gets any trolls. Why? Well because your theory of 'reward for posting, so people will post more' is wrong.
Because, if the posts are worthless, and I quote "posting crap" then they would get downvoted and loose XP points and loose their status. So, more often than not, people who just post crap all day but have a higher post count tend to quiet down as their reputation or 'karma' gets slammed as people don't really appreciate crap.
And in the end, their posts are always otuside of the default threshold of -1 - +3 (on slashdot) so noone gets to see their posts anyway, unless you specify that you want the output 'raw'.
In regards to not giving everyone a vote. The system should be flexible enough for someone to set their own threshold obviously, but usually you have to a) log in once to get 1 vote for the day, then you need to gain your XP to 5, then 50, then 200 etc. etc.
Anyway, this has been thrased out before, and a whole system was built from it. Again, I will suggest that you try out and lurk around http://www.perlmonks.org for a few weeks.
- wil
Perlmonks hardly gets any trolls. Why? Well because your theory of 'reward for posting, so people will post more' is wrong.
Because, if the posts are worthless, and I quote "posting crap" then they would get downvoted and loose XP points and loose their status. So, more often than not, people who just post crap all day but have a higher post count tend to quiet down as their reputation or 'karma' gets slammed as people don't really appreciate crap.
And in the end, their posts are always otuside of the default threshold of -1 - +3 (on slashdot) so noone gets to see their posts anyway, unless you specify that you want the output 'raw'.
In regards to not giving everyone a vote. The system should be flexible enough for someone to set their own threshold obviously, but usually you have to a) log in once to get 1 vote for the day, then you need to gain your XP to 5, then 50, then 200 etc. etc.
Anyway, this has been thrased out before, and a whole system was built from it. Again, I will suggest that you try out and lurk around http://www.perlmonks.org for a few weeks.
- wil