Sciforums Voting Age

Should the voting age be raised?

  • Yes, make it 250 posts.

    Votes: 5 22.7%

  • Yes, make it 500 posts.

    Votes: 10 45.5%

  • No, leave it at ten (I like my polls tampered with).

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • No, I have less than 250 and this thread is a pile of crap.

    Votes: 4 18.2%
  • Total voters
    22
  • Poll closed .
I think StarOfEight and CC have it right. Any kind of either/or would allow a limit on how many bogus accounts can be set up for voting, and passers-by from screwing with a serious issue just for enterainment.

Either that, or does Porf have some way of only allowing one vote per IP address?
 
Silverback, restricting it by IP would take care of the problem of shitheads with too much time on their hands who register repeatedly, but it'd still leave the polls open to shitheads with too much time on their hands who get their fellow shitheads to register here.
 
"Probably should specify the time limit as 30 days before the poll opens. Just to be precise about it." i dunno, what if a poll is open for ages, and someone learns what the poll is about by reading everyone elses posts, then they shud be able to vote

"restricting it by IP would take care of the problem of shitheads with too much time on their hands who register repeatedly, but it'd still leave the polls open to shitheads with too much time on their hands who get their fellow shitheads to register here."
then couldnt we do both? one vote per IP address and the 1 month or 100 post min as well
 
Thanks, StarOfEight. I am all in favor of Shithead reduction by any and all means possible. It seems that IP address would eliminate the problem at hand (those listed by CC as sharing a single IP) and the 30 day, 100 post limit would cut down on "calling in friends" if that really is a problem at all.

How long does a banning poll (or other poll) stay open for anyhow? Should the time limit be designed to always be longer than the poll to keep out the "calling in friends" when a poll like that is opened? ie: If bannings are always 30 day polls, shouldn't the time limit be 31 days to prevent people on either side from pulling in outsiders?
 
50 posts or a month, IP restrictions can have a bad effect of blocking people with the same external IP, increase post count if the problem persist.

edit: i would prefere no limits, perhaps limit ban threads to the site owner, instant 3 day ban for ANY other person that creates a ban thread.
 
"perhaps limit ban threads to the site owner"
isnt the point of ban threads so that porfiry can find out who is not wanted at sciforums with less effort?
 
Ban threads get out of hand to easy, im amazed it took this long. Porfiry & co or only Porfiry could make ban thread based on how often a user had his posts reported.

i dont like limits, if the sciforum populus cannot handle ban threads, we might as well loose that option
 
alain said:
"perhaps limit ban threads to the site owner"
isnt the point of ban threads so that porfiry can find out who is not wanted at sciforums with less effort?
Click to expand...

Besides which, Porfiry retains veto power over any ban poll.
 
Fair comment spurious .Do trolls actully do that?? sad twats! . I know i`m fairly new here , and don`t have that many posts (yet) but we all have to start somwhere.250 posts is still a while away for me so i have`nt voted on this poll ,and don`t fancy the other options.
 
Dont worry slotty at your current rate it will only take you 452 days before you have 250 posts :)
 
lol. thanks for that . and i reckoned juggling soot and nailing jelly to a wall was soul destroying! :eek:
 
hang on , a one legged man trying to kick a football up a down escalater -thats soul destroying .but i did laugh at the guy trying :D
 
i was in the same situation once slotty, but i didnt laugh at him, i was too busy trying to remove a leg from my chainsaw
 
yes give us your pwd slotty, we only want to help.

anyway, limits will not keep the morons at bay, unless it gets set high, so high that it will hamper the regular users
 
thanks for the offers of help, but i`ll have to decline,i think some posters would abuse it :D
 
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