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Khuutra on 21 February 2009

See title.

Is this feasible? Sometimes some really heinous posts are left floating in obscurity in the middle of locked topics too huge to be combed through easily, especially in topics where moderator presence is demonstrably low.

This isn't a comment on the effectiveness of the mods, they do a fine job, I was just wondering if it's feasible to report posts in a topic that's been shut down.



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kirby007 on 21 February 2009

I'm not feeling it, that way i will get reported for posts i made 2 years ago



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Khuutra on 21 February 2009
kirby007 said:
I'm not feeling it, that way i will get reported for posts i made 2 years ago

That's true I guess

But I would assume that people who made frivolous reports would be banned.



Khuutra on 21 February 2009
KylieDog said:
No, you get saddos who get proven wrong about something in a current thread and get angry searching members posts or months back looking for stuff to report, often reporting posts out of context and the mods don't sit and read a thread that can be multiple pages long and 6 months old so end up giving warnings for it when they shouldn't.

See above.

Looking at a timestamp on the post being reported would solve most of that problem.



kirby007 on 21 February 2009
RolStoppable said:
KylieDog said:
No, you get saddos who get proven wrong about something in a current thread and get angry searching members posts or months back looking for stuff to report, often reporting posts out of context and the mods don't sit and read a thread that can be multiple pages long and 6 months old so end up giving warnings for it when they shouldn't.

That's how I got banned last year.

which in that case was pretty funny

 



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Khuutra on 21 February 2009
kirby007 said:
RolStoppable said:
KylieDog said:
No, you get saddos who get proven wrong about something in a current thread and get angry searching members posts or months back looking for stuff to report, often reporting posts out of context and the mods don't sit and read a thread that can be multiple pages long and 6 months old so end up giving warnings for it when they shouldn't.

That's how I got banned last year.

which in that case was pretty funny

Wait, seriously? That's gross negligence on the part of the mod who handed out the banning.

Or it's indicative of the idea that there's no statute of limitations on this sort of thing.



NinjaKido on 21 February 2009

Reporting posts in locked threads is taking reporting to a whole new level, an unnesacery one at that.

Locked threads as well as in the replies in them have no relevance unless some one necro posts (which I understand to be against the rules) , if anyone has issues with posts that are no longer relevant then they should really get some more sunlight.