My solution to fixing leeching / PREVENTING leeching

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This is probably one of the biggest problems on cracked, and for a lot of people it is beyond frustrating.

For those who do not know, leeching is when someone responds with spam content to gain access to the SPOILER/HIDDEN content. (from my knowledge you do not HAVE TO like a thread you just cannot spam comment on one).

The current methods to combat leeching is large only banning someone after they have already leeched not preventing it altogether using my methods.

I have thought of multiple ways that this could be combated:

• Introduce a large team of community moderators who can manually review the first 5 posts that brand new members post. (Should be given permission to suspend brand new members.
  
• Introduce a strict filtering system for users with 0 reputation or > 2 threads (0 Rep and Less than 2 threads should be low limits to over come if people are actually wanting to be apart of the forums, however this could then introduce shit posting threads; this is where the team of community moderators could then review there first few posts.)
  
• Create a popup on screen if you are a new member about to create a post on the lines of:
  

"LEECHING IS BANNABLE
Leeching is when you make a spam comment to get access to content.
Press OK to post
Press CANCEL to edit"

These above ideas are my main ideas that I could see actually getting implemented however I thought of a few dumb ones that no one will agree with and even I don't agree with some of them:

• Create a cool down on signup to first post for example 4 hours. (Leechers could lose interest and may filter some of them out. HOWEVER could lose new users from joining)
  
• Do some cool stuff with REGEX to block out common replies. (Could be very easily bypassed and will likely have false detections and be really annoying)
  
• Create notifications that ask the user to rate a thread after a few hours of initial response, only do this if in the marketplace section. (Will become annoying, and only solve problem of people not liking)
  
• Stop people creating account names with clear spam name like "soiufgbndasd".  (very easy to get around)
  

I don't know if there is anyway to truly STOP leechers, however there can definitely be more measure in place to protect creators who keep getting fucked in the ass.

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+1 

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ill fix leeching when @KSZ makes me mod

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@Sibrille - lifetime

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If every person like your thread, then you will get contributor in 2 days xD

I understand that we all want likes, to get better ranks, like contributor, godlike, heaven... But harder way to get it is better, later feels good when you get it for hard work.

Just saying...

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They will never fix leeching because more posts/more members/more activity improves statistics which in turn increases ad revenue and improves SEO.

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Leechers are not a real issue because most of the content submitted, except for accounts which arguably are already dead when posted, does not expire based on how many users own it.

If we had a team whose task is to systematically suspend leechers after 5 posts, it would probably be better to just make the site invite-only or sell registrations. It is also a very nonsensical system to manage new users, because the premise is that it is a necessary measure to protect the precious content submitted by our "creators". Who are they? Because the last time I checked, people at the top of our usergroups were begging for likes and reputation, threatening to get people banned if they didn't like their threads, using dumb tags hidden in spoilers to hijack search results, if not even boosting their own likes. There is simply no content that needs such a strict measure, because most of the content is not even original.

What we could do instead is stop banning leechers entirely, for the reasons expained here.

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well first of all, the leechers definition here is kind of wrong! leechers are the people who leech away the content without contributing anything!, well if you say that leechers are the one who take content without dropping a like or anything then all the upgraded members are the same!

and to be honest i have been here since very long and i have seen some plebs who grown here posting shit stolen(leeching) content from other places and gained likes and reps! and they are now contributors, godlikes and heavens as well (no offense to any of these rank holders, the real ones they know that they arent and even they agree that there are some LQ plebs around in these ranks!) (i would totally agree with @Mastiff)

now i dont think leechers are any big issue! because they are the ones getting views to many threads, they are the once who bump your thread with replies, and well if you imagine this who forum being upgraded then you would barely get likes and replies (just imagine XD). and yeah its a cycle: leech....get banned....create new acc....leech!  and as @Empxthy said they are indirectly helping to the growth of the forum!

so yeah i mean everyone is a leecher dude! ill be really honest there are a very few original content makers! hence i stopped posting combos and shit and started posting my own methods and knowledge! atleast that is something original than leeched from somewhere! im fine being in low ranks than spam posting and reaching the top! :D anyways good attempt @warrenbuffett

 

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