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I was trying to offer a helpful suggestion on the running debate over giving posters a "score" -- since keeping score is such a big thing on stock message boards these days, including here.

Let me take the idea a step further:

Build code so that posts increase day by day based on some "trustworthiness" score. Or decrease if an alias becomes less trustworthy.

You become more trustworthy in this way:

- No deletes for SPAM, PERSONAL ATTACKS, VULGARITY, VIOLATIONS OF PRIVACY or THREATS
- Being a member for an increasing number of days
- Posting on more than one message board
- Being a paying subscriber

An alias would be scored "less trustworthy" based on:
- Deleted posts for SPAM, PERSONAL ATTACKS, VULGARITY, VIOLATIONS OF PRIVACY or THREATS
- Being a member for very few days
- Posting on only on message board
- Being a free member

Aliases that are more trustworthy should have more posting capabilities. This is the core of the idea.

Aliases that can't earn and keep their trustworthiness score high would have their posting activities curtailed.

Those with little or no trustworthiness would have few or zero posts.

Those who screw up really bad end up in jail anyway. The system for that is great.

But if you want to come up with a way to reward good community behavior and try and modify bad community behavior, surely there is a way to write code in such a way that it's not a popularity contest (recommending your alias a la membermarks is a popularity contest, as is a system of recommending posts, like on SI).

If iHub posting is all about the TOU, staying on topic and not posting about other aliases, there should be commensurate reward and punishment, with a dash of mystery -- a "score" for every poster.

Like here, on this link, threads have a score -- in fact, this is a good example, if applied to aliases rather than just message boards, would it work? I don't know. Maybe:

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/top_boards.asp