Moderation is a little "soppy"

[Lee]

Interesting thread, thanks for posting I personally have seen a good improve in team morale since brandon took over, we do have regular discussions in the mod forum and one thing I picked up on there was a thread in the mod forum regarding limited edition donator and it lasted far too long IMO before the donator was released, and there are still pending items that have been there for a while I think? Or are we update I don't know, but if running the forum is not a one man job please, hire yourself somebody to help @brandon;!

Completely agree with more moderators at the moment, but not too many like for example said above 20 moderators is far too many. I have a personal opinion that we normal mods should be able to see post reports, at the end of the day if we can moderate them forums we move on. Seriously I have never understood why it's been restricted to just smods!?

If you are against that then maybe a few more smods to take the load of martina and Jordan.

[karter]

i just saw a thread in which a person pointed out that this should be posted in a different category. he has got a warning/whatever you guys call it here. so why is there a warning called 'leave the moderation to the moderators' ??? i dont get it, it is pointless and unnecessary. the job of moderators is to remove the inappropriate stuff and warning the offenders not to unnecessarily warn people who try to bring everything under control

[Lee]

i just saw a thread in which a person pointed out that this should be posted in a different category. he has got a warning/whatever you guys call it here. so why is there a warning called 'leave the moderation to the moderators' ??? i dont get it, it is pointless and unnecessary. the job of moderators is to remove the inappropriate stuff and warning the offenders not to unnecessarily warn people who try to bring everything under control

It's, for a good reason, stated in the rules that users may not try to "moderate" the forums themselves, and if they see rule breaking posts they are encouraged to report them using the icon. When users start taking things into their own hands it is probably going to start an argument between them and the OP so it's best left to us.

[Chris]

It's a real shame that the department has declined like this. Early 2011 it was completely different. We had 2 managers, 3 smods and around 6-8 normal moderators which worked perfectly fine, but it does seem that we are low in numbers nowadays. I haven't got a lot to add as it has already been said, but obviously the only solution is to get rid of lazy moderators and to bring in some new ones who are full of motivation and raring to go.

In regards to forum events and updates. It's not as though we don't discuss these things, it's just that they take so long to actually happen that we go round in circles and get no where. You wouldn't believe how long it took to get the ltd donator sorted.

[myke]

As Mike said, there's plenty of us who can & will deal with things when moderators aren't around... for example, if I see a serious rule break or something 'dodgy' like a bot or a phisher then yeah of course I'll deal with it and if a moderator sees me online but sees something in another section - all it takes is a quick PM to me and I'll edit the post for them.

I think moral is low in the mod dept 'cos of all the stick they get for doing what they're supposed to do... Once Garner's back hopefully we'll be able to come up with some master amazing plan, taking into account pieces of what everybody has said.

[Matthew]

I think the moderation department worked best with the 'global mod' system where every mod could deal with every section.

I've been away for the past week and a bit, but before I left quite often it was just me online throughout the day, and I can't deal with problems in other forums. I remember once there was a spam bot which was spamming in a forum that I don't moderate, and all I could do was post a report in the mod section and just wait. I could do nothing more and not only is that bad for the forum as a whole, its extremely annoying when you find a rule break and can do nothing more than leave it/report it for a super mod to deal with.

I think if global mods return, then the department wouldn't need to be increased in size and rule breaks would be dealt with much faster.

[-Nick]

In every forum there should be one super forum moderator and 3 moderators,

Most of the moderators make 10-15 mins on the forum a day and sometimes don't even come on soo ??? Xo

[Grig]

It's a real shame that the department has declined like this. Early 2011 it was completely different. We had 2 managers, 3 smods and around 6-8 normal moderators which worked perfectly fine, but it does seem that we are low in numbers nowadays. I haven't got a lot to add as it has already been said, but obviously the only solution is to get rid of lazy moderators and to bring in some new ones who are full of motivation and raring to go.

In regards to forum events and updates. It's not as though we don't discuss these things, it's just that they take so long to actually happen that we go round in circles and get no where. You wouldn't believe how long it took to get the ltd donator sorted.

how does it take a long time to think of a colour, run it through mattg and release it. Sure if the manager wants, make a poll to gauge views. Even that only take a few days surely .

Global mods should be back, why were they removed?

[Matthew]

In every forum there should be one super forum moderator and 3 moderators,

Most of the moderators make 10-15 mins on the forum a day and sometimes don't even come on soo ??? Xo

Where are you getting these false statistics?

Also super moderators moderate the WHOLE forum and therefore aren't assigned forums. Some forums do not need 3 moderators also.

[-Nick]

Where are you getting these false statistics?

Also super moderators moderate the WHOLE forum and therefore aren't assigned forums. Some forums do not need 3 moderators also.

Yes but they can like be in charge of the whole forum as well of being assigned to a sub-forums so if anything go wrong they get the blame like sub-managers