Suggestion - Report Button

[Ashhizzle]

Well that happens quite a bit too so it would stop it!

Indeeeeed GO ROSIE! +rep i ave to spred

[Ostinato]

Well I like the idea!

[Ashhizzle]

Well I like the idea!

Just gotta wait for MAD to see it

[Nick-]

Although it offers little benefit to me it may be wise to gain the opinions of the current normal moderators to see if they mind dealing with the same report twice, it cant take that much away from their time moderating.
I know when I was moderating that aspect actually helped as I had set it up so that I received desktop alerts with a link to the thread/offending material etc so that I could see what was going on even if I was offline. If something was seriously going wrong in one of my sections presumeably a lot of users would report it which would mean I would receive more frequent alerts regarding the same thread hence it would be regarded as a more urgent task to deal with.
Personally, I would gain the opinion of the current normal moderation team to see if they think it would be a good idea as it is really only that section of the moderation dept that benefits from it. If it doesnt bother them that much I dont see the point in changing any of the settings as users and moderators alike are used to it being like this.

[Catzsy]

Although it offers little benefit to me it may be wise to gain the opinions of the current normal moderators to see if they mind dealing with the same report twice, it cant take that much away from their time moderating.
I know when I was moderating that aspect actually helped as I had set it up so that I received desktop alerts with a link to the thread/offending material etc so that I could see what was going on even if I was offline. If something was seriously going wrong in one of my sections presumeably a lot of users would report it which would mean I would receive more frequent alerts regarding the same thread hence it would be regarded as a more urgent task to deal with.
Personally, I would gain the opinion of the current normal moderation team to see if they think it would be a good idea as it is really only that section of the moderation dept that benefits from it. If it doesnt bother them that much I dont see the point in changing any of the settings as users and moderators alike are used to it being like this.

Well it would help he members too if you think about it. They report posts that could have already been reported so would be less duplication too for them. Just an idea though. Not life or death

[Nick-]

Its not a requirement for users to report posts, its entirely optional. If they think someone else must have already reported a post or just cant be bothered to report they dont have to do anything at all.
Although I've just spotted youre signature and I now understand where this query has stemmed from.

[Catzsy]

Its not a requirement for users to report posts, its entirely optional. If they think someone else must have already reported a post or just cant be bothered to report they dont have to do anything at all.
Although I've just spotted youre signature and I now understand where this query has stemmed from.

Well yes it is optional but a lot of good members use it and it is a requirement to be considered for a Mod job these days so anything that doesn't waste their time would be useful too, surely. Can you elaborate what you mean about my signature because at face value it doesn't sound very complimentary. Thanks =]

[Nick-]

I just noticed the fact that youre a HxWF moderator, thats all.
I assumed this idea had come from some sort of issue in the way that HxWF is moderated that has potential for implementation here.

[J1MI]

I'm pretty sure there is no way we can implement this, it's simply not an option on a vb forum, unless its manualy coded.

I don't think its that big of an issue, since what Bambi said was correct:

When the same post is reported, there is an original report psot made in the MOD section, and anymore people who report that same post, a post in the same thread gets made, instead of a new thread.

So:

1 person reports 'catzsy for swearing' < thread made
2nd person reports 'catzsy for swearing' < Post in the orig. thread made
3rd person reports 'Catzsy for swearing' < Post in the orig thread made

Thats what it is usually.

This also backs up Ostinato's comment when he said:

But if the same post is reported a lot it shows there really is something wrong there, and therefore more urgent stuff is noticeable and therefore dealt with quickly...

I think it's actually more of a benifit that a post can be reported more than once.

[Catzsy]

I just noticed the fact that youre a HxWF moderator, thats all.
I assumed this idea had come from some sort of issue in the way that HxWF is moderated that has potential for implementation here.

No not at all - no issue whatsoever. It is my OWN idea and comes from my experience as a Mod/Smod, even from before your time I believe, and I thought it maybe worth considering as the forum is open to ideas and does embrace change if it has positive benifits. Aight has already thought of a pitfall that may scupper it anyway. His point is valid in that other members could see that a post has been reported. J1MI,also, does not seem to think is viable. Having said that I do not think that it is necessarily a good criteria to assume the more the post is reported the more urgent it is. Could be a double post on a busy section! Every reported post is urgent and mportant because it can get very frustrating for a member to report something with nothing being done for ages =]


Quote Bambi So:

1 person reports 'catzsy for swearing' < thread made
2nd person reports 'catzsy for swearing' < Post in the orig. thread made
3rd person reports 'Catzsy for swearing' < Post in the orig thread made

Thats what it is usually. Quote J1MI

This also backs up Ostinato's comment when he said:

Only for Smods. Mods get a email for individual reports.