Orkut some time back introduced a feature which aimed to spell dooms day for spammers in orkut communities.For a while it was a worthy and an impressive feature, but the side effects had to show their true color.
While i love this feature for it’s spam thrashing capabilities, i also hate it for a couple of reasons. Let me explain you why i hate this feature and what orkut can do to improve and eradicate some serious drawbacks.
» Practical Experience - I posted a couple of important and good topics in some of my favorite communities. After a while, the topics were missing. I was startled. My initial reaction was - moderators must have deleted the topic. I made an effort to contact the moderators of the community to know the reason of deletion of my topics. I was informed that none of the moderators had deleted the topics. Some other members were also complaining the same. One of the moderator informed that there were many topics lying in the spam folder.
» Serious Drawbacks - Report Spam Feature - If a topic is reported as spam by members of a community, the topic is not visible in the community forum unless moderators check whether the topic is a spam topic or not. So, if a foe keeps on reporting your topics as spam, even if it’s not, you topic will be kicked to the spam folder and left to the mercy of moderators and you have to wait to see your topic in the forum again after a long wait.
» What orkut can do to improve this feature?
a) Traditional Way - Even after reporting spam, a topic should be listed in community topics and alternatively in spam folder.
b) Karma System - Users should be deployed a karma on Orkut. If most of their reported topics are deleted by moderators, they have a high karma, else their karma should be on the lower side. If a user with high karma reports a topic, it should be removed from community forum and kicked to the spam folder and If a user with lower karma reports a topic, it should be listed in spam folder as well as community forum.
Karma system will not only help keep orkut clean but also create loyalists for orkut similar to what orkut calls them orkuteers in the orkut help group. So, orkut will have unlimited moderators all over orkut and i am sure we will provide you a hack to increase your karma on orkut..
What do you think of it? 
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