With the introduction of two brand new oekakis, the Advanced and the Sketch, to the PPT oekaki community it becomes clear that the current pointing system on PPTO devised by Diva_brat will become pretty much unmanageable. This is because opening the new oekakis will mean that we’ll need more admins to keep things in order, and if these admins do not communicate regularly repetitive rule breakers will not be caught.
As an example, imagine if a user broke rule number 4 and admin B deleted their rule-breaking picture, whilst admin A had the mast list containing a record of who had broken what rule. Every time admin B would delete a rule-breaking picture, they’d have to send a record of it to Admin A, which would be repetative and time consuming. Consequently they would likely stop doing this after awhile, and thus each admin would have different copies of who had broken what rules in a week. This means that a user could very easily go over the ‘no more than 3 points in a day’ limit that is currently in place.
Instead i suggest a the following method:- For every rule a person breaks, they receive one point. Three strikes and they’re out, so to speak. All rules would have the same value, and these points would NOT run out over time like points in the current system. The points would also NOT carry over to the other oekakis.
E.g. If you had three points on the advanced oekaki, you would be banned. However you could still draw on the Normal and Sketch oekakis.
A record of these warnings (and general discussion amongst oekaki staff) will be made on this blog in the oekaki section.
E.g. something along the lines of “User _____ has been awarded a point on the Advanced oekaki for breaking rule number ____.”
Alternatively we could go for a ‘Laissez-faire’ approach, and not have a point system at all - If a picture or comment broke the rules, we would simply delete it. If they kept breaking the rules the admin could give them an informal warning, suggesting that they re-read the rules etc. Afterall other oekakis don’t seem to have any sort of ‘warning’ system like we do, and they appear to get along just fine. I could be wrong, though.
And if the user continued to offend, then we would eventually delete them (notifying them first, of course).
I was intending to use this method at the Sketch oekaki. After all it will be for sketching.
Any other suggestions for how to deal with rule breakers would be lovely. Feel free to raise any other comments about the current point system, the current rules, etc.
As you’d expect, i want this sorted out before the Sketch oekaki is opened. I need some second opinions here!
I still think it would be a good idea for Staff to communicate on this blog, though.