Sages and Such

There's been a lot of flack recently about /b/'s recent cp flood. personally I'm appalled by such material, and I have to wonder how this stuff stays online. then I realize that the one tool that normal user's have for board regulation, the infamous SAGE, is more or less impotent. I've seen furry and torture threads last in /b/ for 20 minutes with up to 30 something sages, most of them properly placed in the email field. So in the end anonymous is forced to rely on mods an janitors, who really only care about bumping their own inane threads.

From what I know of the mechanics of these boards, SAGE only acts to increase the post count without bumping the thread, Slowly advancing a thread to its natural demise. If this is true, then as demonstrated, a poster who relentlessly bumps his own thread, or enlists the help of a few cohorts to assist in bumping, can keep a shitty thread up nearly a half hour on /b/... a veritable eternity.

Would it not be possible through scripting to enable SAGE a greater degree of potency? Granted, /b/ is populated by assholes, who would love nothing more than to ruin an otherwise decent thread, but Seriously it really shouldn't take more than 4 or 5 unique SAGE to kill (read: delete) a thread. Would there really be a need for janitors, if enough users recognized the need to remove a thread?

>>23
hence the emphasis on Unique Sages and Ages. Sage-spam should be (and is) pointless, however if several unique users recognize a thread's merit, or lack there of, there should be a more meaning full means of keeping things in check.
I've heard it suggested once that enough ages should force an auto sticky, however this brings us back to the dangerous point of abuse, and almost more importantly; the consequences such modifications would have to 4chan culture. Part of the ideals of anonymous posting is the freedom it provides compared to boards in which posters maintain an identity. despite /b/'s mob mentality and me-too-isms, anonymity grants each user freedom from the Internet equivalent of peer pressure. "who cares what anybody else thinks of me or my post? Next post is an entirely new identity for all anyone cares."
When one tries to implement "peer-grading" even on the rudimentary scale of mere ages/sages, it attaches value and reputation to not just the post, but the poster and his ePenis. fear of rejection may lead to the rampant uniformity that /b/tards flock to 4chan in order to escape. Perhaps this freedom is worth putting up with furries and torture-cat every now and then, I don't know.