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Needs More Moderators

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I dont know what happened to all the old mods.... but there seems to be a serious lack of moderation.

Bickering, Threads in Wrong Forum, etc.

I know most of the posts ive reported have had no sort of reply/action taken

Can we get some more moderators please?
 
Being a new member myself, I must say I agree.

Lack of moderation for something that appears as large as this forum, with a large base of senior members (I am noticing several that are over 15,000 posts!)... I would expect moderation to be pretty tight.

Don't want to step on any toes- I just think this is a valid point.
 
Please use the report post button to report posts that you think need moderation. We need your help to make the forums work, not more police officers.
 
The only forum that I think needs a lot of work is the General Gaming forum. Seems 99% of the threads belong in one of the sub-forums (PC/Console) and not the General Gaming section. From what I've witnessed, Slartibartfast's sticky had very little influence.

I can understand if the thread topic can be viewed as having a PC and console nature, but threads such as "Can't decide The Witcher or Crysis" or "Post your Crysis screens here" should be moved without question. I also realize that to undergo constant moderation of this part of the forum would become very strenuous. Maybe a small penalty can be enforced?

Just my opinion.
 
I used to report threads. I stopped months ago after nothing was done and no flames were even deleted. Maybe the situation has changed meanwhile but I doubt it
 
I report posts any time I see something bad that should definitely be moderated, but as of late I'm noticing less action taken as well (such as moving from wrong sub-forum, deleting/editing warez/spam/advertising posts, blatant hostile flamethrower troll attacks on members being edited or warned, etc.) :(. I'm sure others are experiencing the same, hence this thread. By no means is the forum becoming poorly moderated, but the level of moderation/quality of posting therefore, seems to have gone down quite a bit.
 
I've used the report post button many times... But nothing was ever done. Flamewars continued, insults flew. Sure, maybe warnings were handed out, as nobody but the reciever can see them, but they didn't stop anything. Granted, maybe some of the reports weren't warrented, but I know most were (hence, my use of the report button).
 
osalcido said:
I used to report threads. I stopped months ago after nothing was done and no flames were even deleted.
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GoldenTiger said:
I report posts any time I see something bad that should definitely be moderated, but as of late I'm noticing less action taken as well
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Arcygenical said:
I've used the report post button many times... But nothing was ever done.
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This is exactly what I feel as well.
General Gaming may be full of wrong-forum threads (I don't browse there- can't vouch for it), but I am partial to the Operating Systems section.
Being the Linux fans have their own subforum, I am very surprised that they are allowed to thread crap in the Windows threads at times. I've seen a time or two where they were actually removed- but it was the day after when it the action was finally taken.
 
Mayby Osalcido has all the mods on his invisible list? ;)

I partly agree. Many mornings I get to work and see a bunch of spam threads in Hot Deals with several replies and I report them, but it doesn't seem like any mods are up that early and/or on the east coast.
 
I use the report button but I don't really check back to see if anything happens.....IDK if I've really seen difference in moderation or not :confused:
 
But if there were more moderators, and more heavy-handed rules, the users would cry foul.
 
zacdl said:
Agree 100%.

The trolls are allowed to roam free ;)
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I cannot speak for the other sub-forums and I know odoe does put the smack down but the OS forum is a flame fest. I don't even go into that forum any more :(
 
This forum is pretty clean for the size of it. Sure you see the threadcrapping and blatant flaming but for the most part I just report if it is really bad or just scroll down if it is just someone looking to start something or for attention. Doesn't bother me to see it as I just ignore it.
 
I must take things too literally then. When I hit "report post" it states:

Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising messages, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts.
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For this reason I neglect to report duplicate threads or threads in the wrong forum. Instead I try to PM a moderator. If "ONLY" wasn't in all caps, I would have considered reporting the above threads. :D
 
We have moderators from all over the world in varing time zones. The number of active moderators is in ratio to the amount of active members online.....so naturally we have substantionally less of both on over the nighttime hours here in the US.

Moderators/Admins do not respond to the members report button, although we could since it records the member's name and email address in the report. Some reports are on the nose and are easy to correct and some come in the coded variety w\ith statements like "I don't like this" or ban this SOB and little else. If you report an incident and we think it deserves our attention, we act. If not we let it pass.
 
Let me ask this... Would you rather somone report it with detailed info, or simply a "check this out"?
 
MajorDomo said:
We have moderators from all over the world in varing time zones. The number of active moderators is in ratio to the amount of active members online.....so naturally we have substantionally less of both on over the nighttime hours here in the US.

Moderators/Admins do not respond to the members report button, although we could since it records the member's name and email address in the report. Some reports are on the nose and are easy to correct and some come in the coded variety w\ith statements like "I don't like this" or ban this SOB and little else. If you report an incident and we think it deserves our attention, we act. If not we let it pass.
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That all sounds good in principle.. but the 3 posts I reported months ago were curse-ridden flames. The flames were not edited/deleted, the users were not banned. Nothing happened.

Hopefully it works that way from now on , though...
 
TechieSooner said:
Let me ask this... Would you rather somone report it with detailed info, or simply a "check this out"?
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At least for me personally, I like a bit of info like what rule(s) you think the person is breaking, or why it needs my attention. Often 1 or 2 words do the job:
Threadcrapping
Spam
Wrong Forum
Flaming
Horse Porn

But comments like "ban this person plz" aren't helpful, and neither are reports devoid of any information

osalcido said:
That all sounds good in principle.. but the 3 posts I reported months ago were curse-ridden flames. The flames were not edited/deleted, the users were not banned. Nothing happened.

Hopefully it works that way from now on , though...
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It's hard to know anything without seeing the thread in question. The rules are of course up to interpretation by us mods, and we're only human. What you see as flaming may not be so in someone else's eyes.

I tend to PM people who report things that are completely off-base, explaining why the post isn't an issue, and get a dialog going, so they have a chance to ask questions and can better understand my decisions.
But you don't have to wait for that. If you report a post, and see no action after a reasonable amount of time, you're always welcome to shoot a PM to one of the moderators for that forum and ask what's up.
Here's the mod list, by the way
 
osalcido said:
I used to report threads. I stopped months ago after nothing was done and no flames were even deleted. Maybe the situation has changed meanwhile but I doubt it
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Anytime I have reported a post, it has always been resolved by a mod within a couple of hours.
 
that is true. if you report a post its gets resolved immediately. i think there are enough mods like 1 or 2 more should be good enough just to increase the security and enforcing the rules a little bit more but thats not up to us of course.

things have been quite calm and stable lately except people scamming each other in the troll/tips and tricks center. we don't need stuff like that around here.
 
fkn0wned said:
that is true. if you report a post its gets resolved immediately. i think there are enough mods like 1 or 2 more should be good enough just to increase the security and enforcing the rules a little bit more but thats not up to us of course.
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It's not instant, but it's pretty quick usually.
 
For the record, we are having a problem with the report button...it is sporadic. If you see something that needs immediate attention, PM the forum Mod, a SuperMod or an Admin and I guarantee you that the problem will be addressed.
 
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