@ianfontinell-0 Controversial opinion, because I know it could end up reducing the volume of content being added to the site, but I#d like to see people start losing their uploading rights (at least temporarily) for refusing to make any attempt to curate the collections/dumps/spam they add to the site.
It raises another question for me to. Is there any point in reporting them? Some of them clearly violate the rules on collections, but to expect the mods to download all of these large collections to check them when they're reported is a lot of work and data usage, and most of the time you won't know the outcome unless you specifically go back and check after a few days.
The subject raises another thought. I think we need more feedback from the mod team when we report something on the site. We already have this when we report a duplicate, and you get a nice little message to say thanks for reporting and giving you some points.
When we report rule violations though we generally get no feedback at all. |I'm not asking for the mods to write an essay, and all we really need is some checkbox response form like
"Thanks for reporting xxxxxxxx.torrent.
Your report has been upheld/denied.
Action taken: User banned/Upload rights taken for xx days/User warned/NFA" and perhaps a chance for the mod to add an explanatory note if they like.
Feedback helps everyone. It helps users to better understand where the mods interpret the threshold to be, as opposed to rigid adherence to the rules, because some leeway is to be expected. We learn what is and isn't worth reporting, and that in turn helps the mods by filtering reports down to those that actually warrant checking. Uploaders are already anonymous, so there shouldn't be any problem with targeted campaigns against people.
The more we know the more we can help.
