Survey: Should moderators be stricter or not ?

[Conegamer]

I think things should be stricter on the newer users who are obviously trolling or constantly attack one person (one example is a new user who shall remain nameless who was clearly trolling; saying stuff like "LOL TEH WII HAS NO GAMEZ!", "Y WOULD ANYONE BUY A PS3 ITS GAMES ARE S**T COMPARED TO PC!!!" and others, of which I reported; but no action was taken. In addition, Rule 7; "Substance" in the Forum Rules (I believe) seems to have been forgotten. Too many threads nowadays have an OP with just a link, or a picture, and that's it. Moreover, I was warned back in January 2011 about posting 3 times in a thread, replying to 3 different people. As such, I attempt to reply to everyone in one post, or two, now. As do most of the 'older' members. But a lot of the newer members (you'll know them) have posted 8,9 or even 10 times in a row without expanding their opinion, simply to reply to every single post, with maybe one or two words. Again, I have reported this and cited the reason, but again, no action has been taken. I don't want to go into a thread where a post of mine has been commented on and have to sift through 300 posts on something that isn't even relevant to the topic!

However, things should be looser for members who have been here for longer, as they've proven that it's only a rarity (e.g I've gone 5,000 posts without moderator action, so I'd be upset if I get banned for the slightest joke).

If you ask me, the main issue with the system currently is that there's too few mods; however, the ones there currently are are doing a great job. It's just some things seem to fly completely under the radar, whilst the slightest 'joke' is banned immediately. I can only imagine this is because the mod team is stretched too thin, and as I've only really seen 3 mods on the site who are active frequently (Barozi, Kantor, Axumblade), that's probably a fair assumption.

So, overall, the system is fine, but it's not perfect. Remember all the rules; there's more to making the forum a better place than just 'avoiding trolling' or 'flamebait'. Spamming is a much bigger issue IMO, and should be moderated just as harshly. So I went for 'Harsher', though I know this will be difficult with the limited mod team currently operating on the site. With Machina gone, things have certainly got leaner IMO.