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Originally Posted by jwallace15
It would be a lot more useful than reporting everything for a couple people to delete it. Perhaps everyone who has rep level "reputation beyond repute" (I'm not sure how many points that is, I'm assuming either 1500 or 2000) or something like that could be granted this privilege.
I'm sure those with lower reps would like to volunteer to do that, too. I know I wouldn't mind helping out.
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I like the idea, but something just doesn't feel right to me giving that much power to that many people who aren't manually approved. I'm sure it would be sometimes used against posts that someone thinks are un-gp, which isn't right. So here's my revision of that idea:
People with a full rep bar or other approved people gain the privilege to flag a post . If 3 people flag a post, it is automatically moved to a separate forum that only moderators can see. The mods can then go through that forum and delete all actual spam posts. If they come across something that isn't supposed to be there, they can return it to where it once was and issue a warning to the people who flagged it. 2 warnings and that person loses his/her privilege to flag.
One other benefit of this system is that there would be no more problems where the spam is posted in a forum without any active moderators.