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[Was (Bob)]

Quick question that I'd like to get some feedback on.

What does everyone think of giving selected people access to the "roast spammer" button?

I haven't thought this all the way through yet, so I'm just thinking out loud here, but what I'm thinking is that I select certain existing chairperson and directors (who've demonstrated exemplary judgment) and enable them to temporarily halt a spammer's ability to post messages. Abusing it would be a Terms of Use violation. I could make it only usable on accounts that were created less than 24 hours ago and whose post volume falls within a certain range (say, 3 to 10).

The idea being that if someone sees a spammer, they can put a stop to their activity pending my review, rather than just deleting the post in their thread and hoping I see their message about the spammer sometime soon.

As a corollary countermeasure, we could impose a posting volume restriction on new accounts. Say no more than 10 posts in their first hour.

Thoughts?