Patent ID: 8204983

Claim:
A method of allocating online resources to monitor online community members that have been identified as engaging in inappropriate behavior, the method comprising: receiving an indication that an online user may be engaging in inappropriate behavior, wherein the indication is sent when another online user takes action to initiate storing a time based history of online community activity of the online user, the time based history covering a period that extends a desired duration before the taking of the action and a desired duration after the taking of the action; capturing the time based history of an online session that includes the online user's online community activity; recreating the online community activity and determining if there was inappropriate behavior by an offending online user according to standards currently being used to measure the inappropriate behavior; allocating online resources for a desired level of monitoring of the offending online user; and modifying the standards when a majority of online users indicates that a particular activity is inappropriate behavior even when the standards currently being used to measure the inappropriate behavior indicates that it is not.