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twesterm on 07 April 2009
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wfz said:

First of all, let me say that I have no big gripes with the modding system or any mod in particular. My only problem is that mods expect us regular users to look around and report all the trolling, flaming, etc posts we see that break the rules, and report the posts to the mods. In essence, this means that us regular users are actually doing half of the mods' work! Why don't the mods do all of this themselves?

Are you mods too lazy, too captivated by looking at the cool colors in your screenname, perhaps spending too much time worrying about your screenname colors, or

(and here comes the serious part)

(YES, THAT MEANS THESE PREVIOUS POINTS WERE MERELY SARCASM AND FLUFFY HUMOR. MY GOD, PLEASE DON'T TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY, PEOPLE)

are there not enough mods on this site? No, this is not the part where I start throwing around names of people (including myself) who should be mods (  :P  ), but I think this is something that should be discussed if it hasn't already. It seems like the mods rely on regular users a bit too much, and don't do enough of the work themselves. Why should the users get this responsibility put on them when they're just here to enjoy the great times on this site, and it's the mods' jobs to mod?

What do you guys think? Should so much of the burden be placed on the regular users when we have mods who's job it is to do this stuff? Why do we have to do so much work?

On other sites I never see this problem, but it's extremely prevailent on this site. I believe the problem is that we don't have enough mods. Sometimes when I see a mod post in a thread where there is an extremely blatant case of trolling and doesn't do anything about the user, I sometimes question the situation... but I'm not going to delve into that.

Anyways, I believe we need more mods to help around the place.

Thoughts?

 

EDIT: Insert "role" instead of "job" if it makes you feel happier. :P

 

Summary: From what I can tell, there either aren't enough mods on this site to thoroughly cover everything, or the mods that we do have don't have enough time on their hands to thoroughly cover everything.

My solution? I believe we need more mods to help around this place and make VGChartz a cleaner and happier place.

 

  1. No mod is paid (except for VG$ and naz nickels).  We get nothing other than the occasional headache for this.
  2. I think we have a good number of mods.  It's pretty rare I see more than 2 or so jobs in the queue.  I know there for a while there would be 10+ jobs waiting all the time.
  3. Some posts are easy to moderate, some aren't.  Those ones that aren't, the ones where we have to read a 5+ page thread, research someone's past behavior, and make tough choices, take time.  Don't always expect to see results minutes after you report a post.
  4. Not all reports require action.  If I had to make a very rough estimate, I would say I dismiss a good 1/3 of the mod jobs I see.  I'm never upset at people for reporting anything they have even the smallest problem with, but just understand that not everyone will see everything as you do.
  5. You don't always see everything that goes on.  If the user isn't banned and we don't make a warning in the thread, the mod actions are completely invisible to you. 
  6. We cannot be expected to read every thread and every post.  We are human and we will miss things.  We have lives and we will not read every thread.  That's just the way it is and that's why we have the report button.  It's not because we want you the user to do our jobs.  Our job isn't to find the problems, it's to take care of them.