Patent ID: 7720853

Claim:
A computer system for analyzing a list of aggregated activity reports within a discussion board, each aggregated activity report comprising a plurality of activity reports, each activity report identifying a reporter user who submitted the activity report and identifying reported activity of an accused user, the computer system comprising: one or more databases containing a set of report handling rules and a list of aggregated activity reports; and a computing device in communication with the one or more databases, the computing device operative to: select an activity report from the list of aggregated activity reports; apply the set of report handling rules to the activity report to determine whether the activity report submitted by the identified reporter user is trusted based on a record of past activity reports identifying the same reporter user; identify an action that is predefined to handle the activity report that is determined to be trusted and perform the identified action; and generate log information about the activity report; wherein the set of report handling rules are dynamically updated based on the log information.