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Kasz216 on 21 May 2013
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pezus said:
Arcturus said:
Updates #3 and #6 are obvious, and I'm surprised it even needs to be mentioned. Updates #4 & #5 were long overdue, so thanks for tackling those issues.

I hope Update #2 does not impact posts that contain legitimate negative criticisms of a product or brand.

And as for Update #1, can't say I agree with this. In fact, it seems like an attempt to sweep criticisms of the mod team under the rug. There have been a few recent user bans that have left a lot of people questioning why that user got banned (The little blurb placed in the banned user's profile is sometimes not sufficient). There have also been some recent posts that appear to be ban worthy, but the mods take no action. I rarely report posts to the moderators, but when I do, and no action is taken, I'm left wondering why the user was not moderated. Now you're saying that we can't ask these questions in the forum unless it's in the dedicated mod performance thread or easily ignorable PMs?

Agree

For this to work, mods have to be MUCH more responsive in PMs. In my experience it's about a 50/50 chance of even getting a response. 

I sometimes report a post twice when it's obviously rule breaking but hasn't been moderated for many hours. That's not me trying to trick anyone, it's me thinking you missed a report.

We don't miss reports.  A Mod has to dismiss a report for it to be gone from the quere.  It works sort of like a shared email.  Furthermore the head mods can see all reports, even those dismissed AND who dismissed them. 

So if something gets egrigously dismissed without moderation, Axum and/or Kantor will catch it... moderate and let the person who dismissed it know.

That said.  Generally the Mod quere stuff tends to have more then a couple mods eyes on it before it's dismissed.  Generally if the mods don't want to moderate someone we just leave it up for a couple others to confirm it being a non-deal.

 

In general, if you keep reporting something and it doesn't ever get moderated.  That should tell you to redefine what you consider moderatable.


If it takes a while, chances are there are either

A) No mods on.

B) A discussion about if the post is moderatable

C) If other posts that lead to that post are moderatable

D) The length of the ban required/how far away from a permaban is someone.