You would be surprised the lengths that people will go to get their own way or a bad comment off of their thread. Anyway, if they really want to get rid of one or two comments they could report with a newbie/jr member, and they probably wouldn't care if they get banned. Reporting as a newbie is painful because of the time restrictions, but some people would probably do it. I have no doubt that they would at least abuse it with the hundreds of Jr member accounts they already have.

Considering the amount of activity that goes on in these sections that you mention. There aren't a lot of reporters. There's a few users that report a lot of posts there,  but not a lot of unique users that do.

Moderators are regularly questioned anyway. Its just the normal thing to do when people are butt hurt. If a moderator removes a service in a space which they are competing in then theymos could look into it, and see if they had a reason to remove it. But, at the end of the day the mod offering the service could leave it for another mod to deal with to avoid any conflict of interest.

Exactly. They don't even pay attention to the participants of their campaign that they are getting paid for. Whether that's being hired or representing themselves for their company. You would think they'd care about their reputation....that's assuming that their projects are legit though....

This could be abused though. A lot of people would then just report the obvious spam, and then use their "mod point" for malicious purposes. Remember, not all staff members even have the permissions to delete site wide, but only in their sections that they are assigned. Patrollers can delete newbie posts site wide.

Although, it would be nice to promote more reporting, and more users deleting spam. It would likely be abused, and wouldn't work in reality.

Plenty of past, and present staff members have done business though. John K for example had a pretty popular escrow service. Maybe, its a good idea. But, at the end of the day if they can't be trusted in business deals then can they be trusted on forum moderation? So, honestly I don't see the point of putting restrictions on staff members doing business on the forum.

That would have to be determined on an individual basis I guess.

Yeah, at least that's what it says for me. I was under the impression signatures get removed too, but that may have been changed since the last time before of us read that. Perhaps its only when its permanent. I don't know how long the ban is for the user it just says they are banned. 

Yeah, this seems more of a popularity contest. A few members up here I haven't even seen a report from. Plus, there's a few other members who aren't vocal about their reporting, but report a lot. I think in these circumstances without data of the top reporters in the specific sections we can't really nominate anyone because of the lack of insight.

I guess some people will find this useful, but pretty overkill in my opinion. Plus, your contributing to the problem, because these guys will never receive any merit if your ignoring their posts automatically.


I wouldn't say the majority. However, yes not enough members posting good quality posts are getting merit.

You can enable it in the settings, and then it will appear above your watch list, and below "show new repies to your posts." Enable via the checkbox Profile>Forum Profile Information, and then look for "Show patrol link: " and check it.


The user has already been banned.

Exactly my thought. If anything moderators become less popular by the masses, and are only appreciated by those that care about the forum. Otherwise, users just look to blame them. Look at all the moderators, and I can bet almost all of them have had a thread about them where a user is blaming them for an action they took on one of their posts.

My experience has been fine. There's been very little interaction between myself, and theymos. I think he pointed out something in my early days, and there hasn't  been any other communication regarding he moderation itself. There isn't too many restrictions, however I normally only use the nuke button when I'm absolutely sure that they deserve it. I probably am a little more lenient than a lot of people would be.

It's been fine though. I find dealing with reports therapeutic just like actively reporting was.

Its better than straight up deletion in most cases. Not all threads that turn into a spam fest are worthy of deletion in my opinion, because they do have some decent discussion. I'll only remove threads that are completely trash. I'm not sure if moving them to a archive section would be better than locking though.

Yeah, I'm probably leading in the bad reports.

It was definitely on their google forms requirement for joining the airdrop. Was probably in their Discord, and their Telegram too. But, I've just verified that it was definitely a requirement for participating in their airdrop.

Generally, duplicate reports aren't too bad to deal with. Sometimes when reporting a topic which needs to be moved to a different section is can take a bit more time, but with reporting spam it doesn't really matter. When the spam post is deleted all the reports are automatically dealt with, and marked as good.

As for your last point. I don't think that's what happens. I can't test it right now, and my memory fails me. But, if this did happen we might be rewarding a good report when in fact it was wrong. Two of them might of reported the topic to be moved, and be correct, But, the other one could be saying something like "Vulgar language" or "scam" which would be wrong.

I've noticed krishnapramod's reports myself. Oh okay. I wasn't aware that there was a list floating around. Hmm, I'm not sure. I think theymos only ever takes it into consideration if there's not enough reporters reporting there, and he specifically asks for the communities opinion on who should be appointed. Look at the P&S "election" recently.

I believe Iasenko suggested that they don't have as much time to report anymore, and probably wouldn't have enough time to deal with reports if that is the case. We are nominating people, but really we don't have the in depth statistics that theymos has. If we want someone to moderate the Bitcoin Discussion section, then we would need to know who is reporting there.

Ha. At least we get some reward rather than the poor buggers that have to report thousands of reports without even a thanks a lot of the time. Reporting is a thankless job. There's really only a few people that actually regularly report (at least in my sections), but these members do tend to report in big quantities.

Can confirm though. Going bald.

Unfortunately, its not going to get better without people reporting it. It doesn't mean that we are relying on you to report alone. More people in general need to be reporting. I'm a patroller, and I don't seem to get that many reports in the Bitcoin Discussion section. Maybe, there's not that many newbie spammers there, but I would think they are a big portion of it.

Could do. But, would this be turned on by default? If not, then a lot of people wouldn't use it anyway, and would just ignore it.

I wouldn't worry too much about bad reports. I have a few hundred bad reports. You get over it once you've racked up a few

From my personal observations I think the following could be up for consideration:

- LoyceV
- Lutpin
- Suchmoon
 

AFAIK, the others aren't reporting that much. But, they are active in other regards. Theymos is already aware of potential moderators though. Not like there needs to be any nominations as he probably already knows who would be fit for the job, and who wouldn't.