Rate the moderation on this forum

[cocaine]

Last months reports beg to differ

well yeah, but i was stating what i've seen from my own point of view. i dont care about reports, i was clarifying the level of moderation i myself see across the forum.

[Hecktix]

The thing I feel the need to highlight here is that all of our moderators here at HxF are human.

What I don't believe a lot of people realise is that every decision we make is based on our own judgement and this is something that is not easy as we are aiming to be as fair as we possibly can.

The thing with the spam forum for instance - is it's almost impossible to keep up with who is friends with who, who will take what as a joke and all the personal private jokes which fly around. I think the rules in spam are extremely leniant, yes some moderators make mistakes however may I refer back to my original point - we are only human.

At the end of the day I can remember a time when permanent bans were issued for saying bad things towards general management????

People are given a hell of a lot more chances nowadays.

No rules can be 100% accurate and no moderation can be 100% perfect unless some clever dude comes up with an automatic moderation system which scans posts for rule breaks.. and let's face it - we practically have this - we have Catzsy

As for previous comments on moderator activity - most moderators are quite active.

Cocaine (sorry to refer to you by forum name Matt - it simplifies things), you mention moderation by myself & MattGarner, as you say you don't post enough but you also see thousands of edits by the likes of Catzsy, Mobile, iAdam (who seems to have been moderating like a computer himself this summer ), Luccy, Paul & Robbie.

If a post gets reported you have 100% guaruntee it'll be checked by one of the four s'mods and you have the word of us normal mods that we scan threads & will always be on hand to explain our decisions etc to members.

Members need to know where to draw the line.

There are very few members on this forum without an infraction (expired or existing) or a usernote.

Some have more, but they don't make a habit of breaking rules.

When moderation are constantly tried by continuous rule breakers it's very difficult to know what's breaking rules & what isn't - but to be honest looking at the amount of reversed infractions most mods make few mistakes and when they do they themselves are the first to admit it.

I myself just PM'd Catzsy and asked her to reverse an infraction I issued in the midst of a crazy arguement which in hindsight I believed too harsh.

All I'm saying is if you experienced the task we do, you may be a little less likely to slate us for every move we make.

[efq]

2 - Poor.

I find moderators edit peoples harmless posts, just because they know a little bit of background info on the user, automatically assuming they've posted to cause an argument

Yeah, I get accused of something and report someone who did EXACTLY the same and nothing happened to them. Some moderators just like to edit posts for the sake of it, I swear.

I will stick by my vote until I notice personally an improvement.

THERE IS NO EXCUSE.

[Immenseman]

Yeah, I get accused of something and report someone who did EXACTLY the same and nothing happened to them. Some moderators just like to edit posts for the sake of it, I swear.

I will stick by my vote until I notice personally an improvement.

THERE IS NO EXCUSE.

Then you can make a complaint. PM someone. Not really a reason to say it's that bad when you're judging on one post.

[The Professor]

You make me smile

I make everyone smile dear

[xxMATTGxx]

I make everyone smile dear

But you make me smile different though

[Kardan]

It's alright, it's good in some places, but other places need vast improvements.

Catzsy however, is very good at her job, moderation would be pretty darn near perfect if we had about 20 Catzsy clones running about the place

[GommeInc]

I make everyone smile dear

... Get a room you two, please! Urgh!

Catzsy however, is very good at her job, moderation would be pretty darn near perfect if we had about 20 Catzsy clones running about the place

I had the same opinion, until she edited one of my posts. The evil woman! She's been gagging to red tape me for weeks, and she got me :@

[Catzsy]

... Get a room you two, please! Urgh!


I had the same opinion, until she edited one of my posts. The evil woman! She's been gagging to red tape me for weeks, and she got me :@

I think the key word there is edited. I wish all members were like you!

[AgnesIO]

It's alright, it's good in some places, but other places need vast improvements.

Catzsy however, is very good at her job, moderation would be pretty darn near perfect if we had about 20 Catzsy clones running about the place

Agreed, if we ever had to pick a mod manager instead of forum manager (like two seperate roles) and it had to be a current mod, catzy would be in first place.