User blog:AshenFirePhoenix/My Solution to Spamming

Hello! This is my first blog post, so please go easy on me if I make some mistakes!

Some users are really sensitive about spamming, which doesn't really make sense to me because this wiki doesn't even have badges that people can use to profit off of spamming. However, users can increase the number of edits they have, and staff member requirements measure users partly based on number of edits. That seems like trouble to me, so I've come up with a solution!

Positive Elixir Trade made "case scenarios" for the wiki staff requirements, and I think we can use that to our advantage. So, let's say that right now, the raw requirements for a Discussions Moderator rank is from 1500 to 2500 edits. For this, let's make 1500 as "0%" and 2500 as "100%".

What the admins can do is assign users "percentages" according to how much they spam and how much quality their edits are. So that means that a user who spams a lot could be assigned an "85%", or in this case, 85% from 1500 to 2500 is 2350 edits, so that means that a user who spams a lot would need 2350 edits to even be considered for a Moderator rank.

The opposite also applies. If another user made very few low-quality edits in their time on the wiki, then they could be assigned a "10%", so a user who spams very few would need only 1600 edits, if the average requirements were 1500 to 2500 edits.

This can also be applied to an Admin rank, which PET said required 6000 to 7000 edits on average. If a user wants to apply, but they spam a lot, then assigning them "90%" would require them to make 6900 edits to maybe become admin, and if a user only does a moderate amount of spamming, a "25%" would mean that a user who spams less would require only 6250 edits to be considered for an admin role!

Let me know what you think!