OOZ662 said:
My quartile score seems to be pretty horrendous, I guess because I've been keeping an eye out for obscure images outside the Touhou/KanColle/Current-Top-Animes ring (though many of my approvals still fall inside it) and mainly using the modqueue which favors old posts over sniping new potential score goldmines. I guess I'll need to switch up a bit.
This sort of thing seems to be the problem this sort of system will enforce.
It assumes strong correlation between content quality and score, and it's easy to come up with counter-examples.
Consider, say Wakabayashi Toshiya's works, and the fact that they are quite popular, but at the same time, rarely get a score above 2, which is the cutoff for this measurement.
According to this system, it was wrong to have uploaded them, or for any of them to have been approved. Meanwhile, many of the things that were ultimately flagged and deleted after approval were getting higher scores than those posts.
Translated doujins and webcomics are a pretty major draw for this website, with some people coming or at least staying here exclusively for translated works that come in a daily trickle, rather than just sketches.
Even if you lowered the threshold for non-Touhou doujins, you're talking about a very granular measure if you're saying that it's fine to approve a page with 1 score, and not with 0 because nobody bothered to upvote that one page... (And I don't think people will be wanting to read doujins with multiple individual page holes in them...)
If anything, if you're going to use scoring, you should make it possible for more people to rate content, since the main reason advertised reason to become a gold member is to see the loli-tagged stuff, which would inherently skew the base of people who have scoring power. If you want to keep the privilege level, make gold and above have triple voting power or something, but give it out to others.
Likewise, you should create some sort of reward for voting for things, one way or the other (maybe including a neutral option), possibly with greater reward for images below a certain voting threshold, and a search option for low vote images, so that there is some reason for people to actually vote on otherwise obscure copyrights.