Redirect suspected trolls' reports to a human to stop reporting abuse

My previous suggestion about "smokejumping" moderators would help sort out the most troublesome boards, especially if you can redirect reports from them to those mods:

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topi...

However, it can't stop drive-by malicious reporting on generally well-behaved forums, like the one that hit the Horror forum's October challenge wiping out the thread:

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topi...

Now we can't have every report read by a human, but if we have systems in place to track people's IPs and to redirect certain reports to "smokejumpers" these are the same tools that could help in a lot of these cases too.

You could, for example, flag up certain accounts as potential trolls and check their IPs (and previous voting activity) looking for sockpuppet accounts, which would also be flagged up as trolls. Their reports could then be redirected either to the "smokejumpers" or to a dedicated moderator or two (I favour the former as there will be quite a bit of crossover at times and you'd hope that this would cut certain trolls off at the knees, leading to a rapid drop in malicious reports and we wouldn't want them twiddling their thumbs). As you'd have clear evidence of reporting abuse, sanctions would be applied and, presumably, rapidly escalate - it'd be quite a good way of quickly clearing house as suspected accounts would either be made unusable.

With both this and "smokejumpers" in place, I'd imagine you could easily clamp down on a lot of the more coordinated unpleasantness on the forms and it might happen relatively quickly. Granted, the trolls would adapt and come up with other angles of attack, but there will be new ways of spotting that and, anyway, only the most persistent trolls will keep escalating things, most will go elsewhere 0 as we've seen on the forum where they discuss trolling IMDB, they like easy targets and IMDB's systems are either not adequate or can themselves be abused, This suggestion is to address the latter problem, and both this and my previous suggestion would help address the former.