Many people coming from Couchsurfing. Is there a way to prevent this kind of misuse completely? If not, how do you think we should approach such users? Especially if people just try and increase their reputation rather than actually wanting to help the community.
I also worry about the inflated power some people could get with the community moderation system but as this function naturally encourages people to engage with the platform more, I imagine as the community grows it gets better moderating itself and establishing new norms for references.
It seems like most people are in favour of at least some anonymous way of signaling if someone made you feel uncomfortable. If we implement that, should we give an option for users to explain what the person did that made them feel that way? Maybe a message that can be sent to them at a later date?
This could be good. When hosting, always remember etc. Unfortunately there many men and some women, as well have this unfortunate behavior. What do big corporate companies do to eliminate this? They do back ground check, they ask references etc⦠I think the best way to avoid this happening is not having those people part of the this community.
Yes they do exist and once they are in us, it is difficult to control them but we can control from the root! The root cause of this problem is having that type of people part of our group. I feel an invite-only system would help us initially to keep away those bad apples, but eventually even that will stop being enough; so regardless of what we do, we will need controls for this. I think one approach is to have a robust filtering system and implement the community standing score to help users make informed decisions about who they interact with, and to filter out the obviously bad apples!
