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Something caught my eyes today as I was going through the homepage of this forum and paying attention to how it is divided into various boards. I discovered that the one written 'Other' which includes Meta, Politics & Society, Beginners & Help, Off-topic, Serious discussion and Archival, there is only one moderator for them all. As if that is not bad, that moderator who happens to be Miningbuddy has not been active for over 4 years now. He was last active in April 2018.

https://i.imgur.com/lGwWf71.jpg

My question is how does the forum get over shit posts because I do not see alot of it there. I know Meta is out of it and can take care of itself for no one dare make spam posts there because of the huge number of reputable members who post there. But how is shit posting controlled in others? Secondly is it not long overdue to get new moderators for that part of the forum?

The global moderators handle reports in the beginners' sub. The Patrollers can also handle reports against anyone with a newbie rank.

I don't think Mining Buddy is actually a moderator anymore. For whatever reason, he has not been removed from being displayed as a moderator on the main forum page. If you look at his profile, you will see that he is not a moderator.

As far as i know, global moderators and staff do the thing in any board they want to moderate or working the reports of the members.

Edit: Answered above already while in typing lol.
Anyway, looks like the displaying of miningbuddy in the homepage is a bug or something

Edit2: found why his profile is still there

I report a lot of posts in other and they all get deleted or moved  ;)

If you see any post that is off topic, spam or in the wrong section, just report it and one of the mods will deal with it.
Give it a go  ;)

Just like Mbitr said. It's my experience that all (the vast majority) of my reports from the "Other" section of the forum are handled. Whether by global moderators or staff. As long as that is the case, I don't mind if these boards don't have dedicated moderators.

It has been discussed many times. If Theymos needs support then he will definitely find a right one.

We don't need to. How I understand SMF is a global moderator can access all boards and as far as I know our two global moderators are very active which means it's not making much pressure for bringing new staffs for different boards.

Regardless of who handle it, I think the report to moderator feature is still pretty effective on the board. But I think it would be better if the board had a dedicated moderator so that the global moderators don't have to deal with too much reporting which in essence can reduce the burden of moderation.

While it's true that global moderators can be active on any board, it might be good to get a replacement for an inactive moderator. Of course this is just my opinion on the situation although so far there hasn't been much pressure to get a new one or maybe we don't know.

All 3 Global Moderators , hilariousandco (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=164822) , mprep (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=51173) and Mr. Big (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=553678)  are active and doing a great job for handle the reports that are made in other boards with no Moderator and the Forum.
And i guess the Global Mods also have a good help from alanst  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2243418) , 3dOOm (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2288758) and Rizzrack (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=241548) also as they have some special rights for doing stuff.
All Moderators helping out each other on other boards if they can , i heard.

Like other members said (global moderators) will take care of all that (spam), you just need to report it, they will do the job.

The forum has several global Moderators to deal with space, which have mods off, such as: @MiningBuddy, so you shouldn't be surprised if the board you're looking at is problematic, report it if you think something is wrong, they'll visit it and fix it, if appropriate, they will do the cleaning.

I seem to be missing something here, but is this true? I've never heard of user except moderator or admin having any special privileges on this forum, except for LoyceV with its whitelist. Mate, is there any information I missed?

AFAIK, so far Other board including child boards are moderated well by moderators (maybe global moderators) so I don't think it's a big problem and urgent matter as one of the board moderators is inactive. If all this time the board needed a lot of moderation then I'm sure the idea of ​​a new moderator has been around for a long time, and maybe people have been paying attention to it for a long time.

In case you didn't get the memo:


Overall it's good you did not know. Means you take care of your account :p

The only possible reason is the section doesn't get that much reports to be handled by a dedicated staff so the board will be handled by the global mod themselves. Also I remember theymos mentioned somewhere that he has no interest of hiring any staffs for the moderation in the near future so global mods has to to all the work to sort those report5and clear the spam posts and threads.

Yeb looks like you missed that Information for 3 years now and as already written from Rizzrack here  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5408014.msg60650851#msg60650851) its true and i dont kidding you.

LoL  :D , normaly it would be good for Users to know , but as i know all 3 of you like to work undercover.
Also there are much help from some reporting Bots also that makes it a bit easier to get rid of a lot spam and handle the reports i guess.

I believe those boards you mention are still have a very much active moderators, Miningbuddy is no longer a moderator,  I do not think that dude is still in this forum, because from the profile image provided, the last active was 2018 and from that time till now Miningbuddy had only 1000 merits and he is a moderator. I do not think that should be possible. Even though without Miningbuddy the global moderator is working tirelessly. Shit posts are still deleted every day and night. Threads have been moved from one board to another by the users that are moderating these boards the OP mentioned. Though, to reduced the work load of the global moderators, new moderators should be selected to moderate  these boards by different moderators.

The real question is why @Miningbuddy name is still present next to that board, but I can say that there is activity by one of Global mod in that board, so it does not make a difference, but I noticed that Project Development contains less moderation activity, and therefore you will find many topics deserve to be moved/deleted.

In general without stats we can only speculate.

If Mining Buddy no longer performs the duties of a moderator, then why in the column "moderator" indicate the nicknames of those who currently perform these functions?


For example, them, if it is correct. It seems that because of this little confusion, new users may feel that the moderators are not active and the forum is a mess. With the display of current active moderators in the sections, the situation would immediately become clearer.

I've also been wondering so far about why Miningbuddy isn't being removed, but I'm sure in the past there have been similar questions about this issue and we could have missed it. Miningbuddy has been inactive for over 4 years and I don't know what happened to him during that time. But I have no reason to urge the admin to change or delete his name on the moderator field, but for sure if the admin remove it or replace it then there will be no more question and no more thread like this in the future.

I got some posts reported there so far, moderator handled it but I think it was handled by global moderators. It doesn't matter about moderation even if Miningbuddy has been inactive for the last four years.

on the Other board. although there is no special moderator but if you monitor it carefully you will see that on other boards are visited by many moderators from various boards. because many moderators are active on the board so we rarely see spam on other boards. and when there is spam then in a short time it is always deleted. because members who are active there will immediately report it. because I remember that I had reported spam from the board. and in no time the spam was removed. so at this time I think it can still be overcome. but maybe appointing a special moderator will also be very good in the future.

Probably he is a friend or someone wanted to be recognize even though he isnt active. 4years of inactiveness and we can definitely say he is not really gonna go back and moderate that section. I wouldnt want to remove him so we can always have speculate topic like this one about him. Not to create chaos but yo remembered someone who helped the forum to be at it is. I dont know him, but if his the one been assigned on that important board then he must be really good in my opinion.

I guess that the 2018 crash and winter really got him, mining no longer profitable.

On a serious note, better remove the name since it's misleading. Actively-assigned mods should only be listed, not those ex.

Just one topic, no need for multiple topics so we can prevent newbie and future users from creating the same topic in the future. Of course we can speculate on that at any time, but my guess is that admin might just delete it and replace it with another user if this board requires stricter moderation in the future.

Somewhere, there must be a list of users who have been staff, admin, and moderator ^{[removed, replaced or added].} It might be good to know the full list if we really want to remember it.

Are you saying leaving an inactive member's name there as a moderator is a kind of compensation for him from owners of this forum? I do not think that is the case. What you just said now can be done in a proper manner if at all by getting those who have helped this forum one way or the other into a Hall of Fame for this forum. Just open a thread and pack them all in there by mentioning and branding them.

Somehow but its a different case from other hall of famers since he is a moderator and not a popular user whom really have some contributions here. Anyway its just my opinion right? Why bother with such name being pop up there plus this isnt a big deal. Those moderators are probably handpicked and its special here since they have such task to do here aside from posting. Just my 2 cent.