There are a number of very selective mods here.

On two occassions I've been banned because of a presumption of what I'd said in a post only to be unbanned by another mod when requesting my post to be looked at again.

Only yesterday I was given a warning for posting a joke comment yet a homophobic post two above mine was not noticed, or completely ignored.

Having said all that I know how difficult it is, having been a mod myself on AOL teen / kids chat.

People have different interpretations and views on other users posts and it's impossible to please everyone on a busy opinionated forum like this.

It's not a job, it's a voluntary activity.

Mods do it (hopefully) for the same reason that we users report people--to make the community better.  I try to report as much garbage as I can because in a forum this size with this many users, it's unlikely a mod will be on 24/7 and manage to see every possible bad thread out there. 

Besides, reporting a post takes all of 2 seconds.  Very little effort and for it we're rewarded with a great community.

I dunno, I remember a time when Rol said that, an unidentified poster who I shall call Lion-J, was (paraphrasing) a chump compared to another poster who I will call skreechred. And that leo-j was an idiot and he should learn from ZB.

I was like man that was rough.
I asked the lion guy what gives, and he said it was a joke from way back.

If it was the job of the mod to prevent things like that rol probably would have at least got a warning.

EDIT: yes it was intentional

This is rarely the case, I imagine. The most common result of reported actions is bound to be warnings, because not all instances of trolling and flaming result in bans. Just because we don't see that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

@theprof00:

Slow down. You lost me. Whose lion is this and why are people making fun of him

So your problem is that the mods don't always share your opinion of trolling?

could be that they disagree with you^

It's easy to figure out if you also slow down :P

This is an important point, too - I imagine that a lot of people get reported for no good reason. Hell, sometimes I wonder about reports that I've made, and whether or not they're necessarily justified.

if i had posted this, it would have been locked already.

This.

I report blatant trolling all the time. So I'm not sure if mods just aren't getting off their asses or they see me reporting and say, "there goes Claude again."

So my only problem is with lack fo consistency. Most of the terrible mods have been dealt with already so it's no one in particular.