Okay, I'm spitballing here and haven't discussed with other mods yet, but wanted to get feedback on something. There's a Trilateral Commission of Drug Mods group that obviously I belong to. Aside from the usual talks of world domination, causing recessions b/c we're bored, etc, someone mentioned that in their sub, they reward people who report sourcing violations with flair. I guess sort of like different "levels" of flair.
Here's the problem we are running into. Our job would be so much easier if the community used the report button on posts. What's even more discouraging is when there is a sourcing post, you get people answering it. We should stop doing that. Sourcing and such is going to get this sub shut down. Because I tend to approach behavioral adjustment with punishment, my suggestion to the Commission was to also ban people who answer sourcing posts along with the OP. Someone there, who obviously subscribes to the positive reinforcement philosophy of things, suggested trying to reward people who report posts and contribute in that fashion.
Again I haven't discussed with any of the other mods but I thought this idea was intriguing and might be worth doing. The problem is adding more work to the mods b/c we'd have to track people who report and then add their flair. Might be able to figure out a system.
But before that, wanted to see what you guys thought. Would flair make us more proactive as a community to report posts that violate the rules? Is this something you guys would like? We could have different "levels" of flair too - report 10-20 posts and get like "Hall Monitory" flair, 21-30 get "Jr. Deputy" or some shit. You get the idea. Thoughts?
Can I get, "narc" flair? I rule 4 the shit out of people.
But seriously, the only problem is that reports are anonymous, so you'd have to ask people to take an extra step to get their flair.
I've certainly been guilty of answering, "where can I get the best, X". But I usually answer with, "OP, this is sourcing, so you need to learn the rules, but in my experience, or, looking at recent reviews, you should check out vendors x,y and z." It doesn't seem productive to me to ban people who are trying to be helpful while also encouraging OP to stay within the rules. So maybe banning people who answer rule 4 violation posts is too subjective to carry out?