My nationality.

[lAscend]

The Sports forum is so badly moderated. Other posts don't need to be reported because there is always a mod around but in the sports forum, it's a different story.

Well it shouldnt be badly moderated there are 4 moderators that moderate that forum but i can see what you mean though, report all the posts that rule break in that section and one of the 5 smods will look into it I will also keep an eye on that section

[Geraint]

Mainly because we find it really hard to differentiate between joking about and actual insults in that section. I have however dealt with the offending posts in the thread you were referring to.

I know how much insults are thrown about in that section. Most of them, about Cardiff etc I don't care about but racism, I hate.

There wasn't really a need to close the thread, we were actually discussing something.

Well it shouldnt be badly moderated there are 4 moderators that moderate that forum but i can see what you mean though, report all the posts that rule break in that section and one of the 5 smods will look into it I will also keep an eye on that section

As stated above, you may need to look into that forum to see what posts are insulting and what are jokes.

[Hayd93]

So mods are happy to have masses of reports from me?

Yep, Report as many as you think are bad and we will look over them. It accually makes our life alot more easy

[Slowpoke]

There wasn't really a need to close the thread, we were actually discussing something.

Had the argument not gotten as bad as it was, I probably would've left it. However, there was too much arguing and baiting going on in that thread for normal discussion resume - However, feel free to re-create it and remember that we're only a report/PM away if that happens again.

[The Professor]

As stated above, you may need to look into that forum to see what posts are insulting and what are jokes.

Its astounding how often that's said. Somehow members seem to think moderators have some psychic powers where we automatically know the intention and backstory of every post on the forum and know whether it's a joke or not; we simply don't! It's only obvious to the post maker and anyone else who is in on the joke. It's MUCH easier said than done, especially with people really stretching the definition of joke!

As for moderating the sports forum in general, I shall nudge the moderators of the general section and ask them to keep a closer eye on it

[Geraint]

Its astounding how often that's said. Somehow members seem to think moderators have some psychic powers where we automatically know the intention and backstory of every post on the forum and know whether it's a joke or not; we simply don't! It's only obvious to the post maker and anyone else who is in on the joke. It's MUCH easier said than done, especially with people really stretching the definition of joke!

As for moderating the sports forum in general, I shall nudge the moderators of the general section and ask them to keep a closer eye on it

All I was saying, was read a few threads in it just to get an idea of how that forum goes.

[The Professor]

All I was saying, was read a few threads in it just to get an idea of how that forum goes.

Every situation is individual and can be interpreted in many different ways, simply looking at past examples isn't enough to know the intention of a given post unfortunately. If it was, the moderators' jobs would be much easier!