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RE: Regarding Transisto and Flagging
Oh I agree with that comment wholeheartedly. If it's going to function as a balance to upvotes (which it currently does), then it should be called downvoting. As far as why we really need it, look no further than the actual spam that gets nuked daily. I think it serves a healthy function, but there needs to be some established standards that the community can rally around when someone abuses that function. This is one such case.
I've seen what I consider to be better proposals for dealing with the proliferation of spam... from @mattclarke in particular, as I recall, but there may be others.
I think one of the best would be make commenting a privilege earned by gaining reputation. A true "flag" would then affect reputation only, closing the door on spam.
In any case, it's pretty clear that there's work to be done! ;)
Communities is going to solve a lot of things.
Oooh, I like that idea. Make reputation actually mean something significant besides being an indicator of status.