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are threats of harming people ok on this forum ?

I have noticed this too, I only report people If they go WAY to far, but most of my reports are reported as " inacurate ". Strange. Maybe mods are too lazy to rate reports ?

Also I've NEVER seen a mod edit a post, or warn someone. I'm all for freedom of speech but cussing and swearing and threatening ... why is this allowed ? Why have mods at all then ?

There's an ignore function, use it, yes, freedom of speech of all kinds should be allowed, but equally you have the right to ignore what they say and don't have to read it, it's nothing to do with being lazy, it's called actually sticking with their beliefs and not being hypocrites, I have plenty of racists and stupid angry people on my ignore list here.

Could you link to the posts you reported so we can get an idea of what you were trying to report?


"You have reported 28 posts with 97% accuracy"

Ha, I am doing even better than you :)

one of the 3 posts i reported was saying about having sex with animals the whole thred has been deleted now ( not because of that thow )

Zoophilia? That's some messed up stuff you were reading.

I don't like to ignore people because even people who get drunk and troll and insult others for fun sometimes make interesting, constructive posts the next day :)

it was on a post about somone wanting to get 5 7950 working on windows

That's probably the most off-topic response, ever!

He was serious.

I can't speak to your claims, since I didn't review them; but you can pretty much assume that mods aren't going to do anything about someone who is likely joking, or isn't but can't really follow through, unless they are really being an asshat.  Being offensive to one or some isn't enough, you would have to be offensive to just about everyone, and often, to be sensored for your opinions alone.

Also, since the new reporting system was put into place, the root problem with the old one never really changed; namely some people will report people that they don't like in mass to the point of spamming the reporting system.  I, for one, grew tired of checking for these reports and finding nothing particularly noteworthly, and don't put much time into researching them anymore.

All you need to do is sit in the main "Bitcoin Discussion" forum, half the stuff posted there actually belongs somewhere else.

Yeah, you just click the button again if you want to unignore them lol

mabe its because the ones i reported were in the alt coin catagory the bit coin parts seem to be lookes after well

Wait...you mean I missed a thread about how having sex with animals will help to get 5 7950's working on windows? Aw man! (grin)

Surely
The alt coin sub forum is like the Bitcoin far west

Aww yeeeaah, 100%. I don't even remember what it was for. I think it was a spam/scam thread.

I generally don't get offended easily, just move on and forget about it.

LOL, I'm wondering why he would be reading that as well... not that I judge or anything.

Warning people publicly in threads where moderation is occurring is not a very effective way to moderate. It just puts the person on the defensive, which makes an amicable resolution much less likely. Then there will probably be a few pages of debate over the moderation itself, which is mostly pointless. It's best done in private, unless you enjoy drama, or meta type threads.

I also rarely edit posts, your posts are your posts, and they should stay that way. If a post is worthy of moderation, then I'd rather delete it outright than edit it.

I feel that the moderators are trying to give as much freedom as possible in the forums.   It is a good thing just that we need to exercise more self control and report only the worst abusers.

I completely agree. It's sad that people always abuse the freedom and then wonder why the freedom is being taken away.

What we can do is to report this idiots to the moderators and have them dealt with.

Going back through the reports, this appears to be the post in question:
It's very clear that this is in jest to make a point about how ignorant he thinks you are. We get plenty of reports where people are actually calling for violence, so we have plenty of experience in knowing what is okay and what isn't.

I agree with the (lack of) action taken by the moderator that marked the report as bad.

the post i reported was talking about havin sex with animals in a thred about how to get 5 gpus to work on windows

Was it in reference to a coffee table? Because if it was, I think I know the guy.

it could have been i tryed to go back and look to find out but the whole thred is now gone

i have not reported that post so why bring it up here ?

Some insight on how I use the report system: I get the report emails and follow the links to the offending posts to check. I rarely visit the Reports page, so I surely have dealt with both accurate and inaccurate reports yet not marking them as such. I'm not sure if the forum software detects that a deletion by a moderator took place and marks the report as accurate or not, but phpbb doesn't work that way, so I'm not expecting SMF to...

That's just what it wants you to think.. I hope you don't keep it in your room.

What?

lol, it's a sick, dark world when talking about GPU's and Windows turns into a bestiality thread.

There's a big difference between saying you want to do something and that you will do something. If he had said "I know where you live. I'm going to come over there and choke you." then yeah, sure, that would be a different story. But this is just ridiculous.

IE: "Oh my god, I want to choke people who use this argument."

Poor taste in words, but harmless.

And we have complaints like this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=226647.0

And some like this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=226678.0

I think the mods here do alright. I was a mod at a video gaming site, and wow did it suck. It's a thankless job that you simply can't win at. 

You reported no such post.

Deletions are marked as accurate, unless the report was already marked as bad. By the way, the report page wasn't made by SMF - it was made by theymos. Therefore, it is actually good.

Then the mods are doing a good job. Good moderation is invisible.


Deletions are detected, but not moves, etc.

If a report has already been handled by another moderator, it should be marked as Handled.

I have seen a couple times where a mod adds big red letters "This is probably a scam, do your research" or some such warning.

I do that fairly often, but usually only in the newbie section.  People there are a lot more likely to fall for scams, so I try to warn about anything that looks sketchy (and I believe I'm usually right about them).