Just as there is no stopping “crime” there is no stopping bad content. Besides - these are evolutionary games being played between grazers (content consumers)

Just as there is no stopping “crime” there is no stopping bad content. Besides - these are evolutionary games being played between grazers (content consumers) and predators (alarmingly large group). As long as there is signal in a forum, there will come to be a method to subvert it. Honestly the question I would ask people is how do you measure bad behavior on a forum. Any technical idea, such as your tree, is doomed to eventual obsolescence. The question is how long it would take, and how effective it would be, and how you would measure it.