Proposed change to new member privileges

[maninsoma]

This morning there is yet again another post by someone who just joined the forum denigrating a provider.  Not that I think everyone who is a new member is necessarily lying, but I just don't find "warning" or "avoid" posts from new members helpful.  At least when someone has a posting history you can look at their history (if you're so inclined) in order to help you figure out whether to take their warning seriously.  

I'm on other sites (unrelated to the topics discussed here) where posting privileges work differently for new members.  For example, there might be certain sections of the forum that are invisible to someone until he has a certain number of posts over a certain period of time (e.g., 10 posts over the first 30 days).  If I'm not mistaken, in the early days of this site (not sure if it was Hooboy's iteration or Daddy's) new forum members actually had to have their posts approved by a moderator before they were visible to other forum members.  Even with a short period of time/number of posts, having such a policy would at least prevent posts where someone just signs up to denigrate someone.

Am I the only one who thinks some sort of gatekeeping would be helpful, particularly now that "basic" reviews are allowed in the forum and not required to be submitted for review by the site admin?

[RadioRob]

The first 5 posts new accounts make are reviewed to ensure they are not spam.  We don't have the man power to review context, etc of posts.  

If something violates the community guidelines, anyone on the site is able to report that post.  It will flag it for moderator review.  If enough people report the post, it will also be automatically hidden until the moderators can review it.  

(We also see each account that is used to report a post and can see when someone is using multiple accounts.  If someone uses multiple accounts to try and get content hidden automatically... those accounts will end up banned.)

 

[maninsoma]

Thanks for the info, RadioRob.  I guess I'll just continue looking at the status of people who post these "warning/don't hire" threads and just ignore the ones created by people who signed up just before making the posts.