User generated content is inevitably going to tend towards ****e, since the average internet user doesn’t display a great deal of brains or taste. But I think a lot of the various “buildr” options would work a lot better if there was any sort of degree of administrative oversight. As in “if ET actually took an interest in the quality of product produced by various buildrs”.

Things like “always having a 24 hour delay between submissions and voting” and “giving mods/admins the ability to remove really bad ideas (e.g. “FRAN IS FAT LOL” ) from consideration so there’s less chaff, and giving people some structure in which to create (this works reasonably well in itembuildr, but forumbuildr would work a lot better if periodically there was a theme for the week given, e.g. “this week we’re going to do a forum for a political cause, party, or candidate” and all submissions that don’t go with the theme are rejected out of hand.)

But yeah, just having missionbuildr left alone without any sort of oversight would be horrible. Whenever someone suggests clbumbuildr, I shudder unless the process would take at least 4 months and would have regular and numerous periods of oversight by ET.