:Title:    Dealing with difficult people?
:Author:   Thomas Kriese (CCAL30)
:Date:     Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:46:45 PDT
:Modified: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 10:49:58 PST
:URL:      http://www.omidyar.net/group/community-general/news/88/

As the `membership of omidyar.net`_ grows, we'll undoubtedly encounter people that may or may not share the same values as the community. 

In fact, we've already seen some members exhibit behavior that could be classified as annoying (at best) or destroying (at worst).

Now, we have a reputation system in place to help us identify users/posts that the community finds to be contributing to the value of omidyar.net (or not).

What should auto-magically happen when the community indicates that a user/post/page does not belong?

Here's a suggestion:

 feedback score on comment/page

        * at -10: folds the comment/page (and viewing requires a user to be signed-in -- to prevent posting just to provide Google juice)

 feedback score on users

        * at -10: hides user profile
        * at -25: prohibits making comments or workspace edits, giving away feedback points or sending messages.
       
As members of this community, I'd love to hear your thoughts on how we deal with this. Do we even need the system to do anything? or is the negative feedback score enough?

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:UPDATE ON 11/20: I removed the (-50) threshhold on users, as everything we'd proposed making happen at -50 actually occurs at -25. It does beg the question, however, is it worth throwing extra negative points at a user once they've crossed the -25 threshhold?


.. _`membership of omidyar.net` : http://www.omidyar.net/user/stats