Self-policing, rate limiting online forums

(57) The method and means for a summary multi-user on-line forum of taking caution and performing rate restrictions automatically. A series of rules which allow a user to blame other users are included in the form of desirable enforcement. Or that one (the effective message rate of access or communication connection with an on-line computer system can be included) or more "privileges" are taken up for the blamed user -- or if the user who is reduced and of whom; blame was done improves behavior, a privilege will be recovered gradually. The participant and related participants in other who blame are notified of the effect of the blame to the blamed user. In another mode, the on-line computer system can supervise automatically the rate to which a user transmits a message of a certain kind, and can restrict a message rate to the user who uses a system resource excessively by transmitting a message in succession in large quantities.