Letters And Numbers:
Would a flagging/report system for obnoxious people work or would that just be abused?
Like if 5 differnt people flag someone for being a pest they get banned?
A voting/karma system like this with that kind of penalty would likely cause more problems than it causes. Imagine if there's a clique, and then someone gets on the "shitlist" of that clique for a petty reason.
One person could also try to open multiple accounts to try to game the voting system. You aren't supposed to open multiple accounts, and we crack down on this when discovered, but this isn't always right away.
That said, it
does help when multiple users report the same troublemaker, and give as much detail as possible.
It's best if an administrator directly observes the behavior when it happens, though this isn't always possible.
We do wish to get rid of obvious troublemakers, trolls, and scammers. We also want to strongly discourage obvious, intent, disrespectful behavior. But we don't want to mistakenly remove someone because of petty, minor disagreements.
