Janitoring and modding appear to be entirely about removing, blocking, punishing shitposts on 4chan. Unsurprisingly there's a bit of burnout from time to time considering what's in our queues (janitors' and mods').What 4chan doesn't do is reward really good posts. In part, this is because prior to captcha, there really wasn't a way to incentivize or reward positive behavior.The reward is simple: a day without captchas. It's small enough not to dilute the value of gold passes. The quality post reports appear in our queues along with the other ones. Perhaps the quality posts would be restricted to one per board per day the way the other posts are restricted to one per five minutes (and be denied to your own posts).The post is not decorated, moved to the top, or anything like that but the poster is momentarily redirected to a page that says "Good job, here's your captcha vacation, enjoy it--but mentioning it or posting screencaps of this violates Global 8 and will result in having it pulled." That's it. No reddit upboat circle jerking, anonymous culture kept anonymous. It uses the existing infrastructure both technologically and culturally and reminds people that the management isn't merely indifferent to non-shitposts, it wants good ones.Just to keep things fair, janitors are expected to limit their own nominations the same way we're expected to keep BRs limited (when deletions would serve the same purpose).I also suggest (regretfully) that this system be exclusive to blue boards unless the janitors of NWS boards feel confident places like /hc/, /b/ and /r9k/ are viable for this kind of reward system.The net effect is that janitors and mods get to see the better side of 4chan's boards and users get to be reminded that we don't just view our boards as a continuum of "shit --> shittier".
I'm not saying this is a terrible idea, I think that people sometimes do need some motivation to post well, but all I can see this doing is creating circlejerks where people go "hey can you exemplify my post and I'll exemplify yours". Not necessarily on 4chan, over Skype or some sort of IM service. It would be far too easy to abuse.
There's also the practical problem of how to notify people that their post has been awarded. You can't do it immediately afterwards, i.e. at the Post Successful screen, because there wouldn't be any time to judge it. 4chan doesn't have any realtime pop-ups or anything like that, so you'd have to wait for the user to do something else (like submit another post) before you could show the award. And what if they don't post anything else that day?I think our philosophy here is non-interventionism; that good posts will be recognized as such by the community without our needing to award them. If people want to explicitly assign upvotes and downvotes, they should go to reddit. We're just here to clean up the blatant trolling and shitposting that inhibits quality conversations.
>>2155This. If this were available to normal users the potential for abuse would be enormous. However, if janitors/mods were to have a function like this it might be cool. There definitely needs to be some kind of positive reinforcement for good posting considering the state of some boards. Something like this, with the added bonus of a dynamically increased bump limit on a thread that is clearly a five star fucking post would be awesome. Not really technically feasible, but awesome nonetheless.This also has the potential to generate some j00tgold. Seeing the benefits of a reCAPTCHA-free environment, some (exemplary) posters would possibly be inclined to purchase a pass.
>>2156Modified warn screen? Create a template for a day pass or something, redirect once on refresh and then never show it again.
