Reporter Statistics

[UserU]

I don't really now how to report but when I am reporting I just put "spam or off-topic" as a comment.

Don't fret about making mistakes. Bad reports happen and it's not always your fault for that outcome.

As long as there's a basis behind the report, you're good to go.

[DdmrDdmr]

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Reporting is not rank-related other than by the cool down period in between posts. If you want a better orientation as to what and how to report, you can read through this topic that was created for those purposes:
[Unofficial Guide] Reporting effectively.

Reading through the guide should help to open the spectre of potential reasons provided on the reports, and you’ll see that there is a much wider range than just spam or off-topic.

For the time being, the ratio you see on the dialog box will server as a guide to understand whether you are reporting more or less correctly, but the magic appears when you make the 300 good report mark, which opens the door to seeing the detail list of your last 30 day window reports and their status. This helps a lot in understanding what specific reports you made are marked as bad (or unhandled).

[Welsh]

I am actually "scared" of reporting posts since I only have a low rank but I tried and it worked. I'll continue reporting from now on.


I don't really know how to report but when I am reporting I just put "spam or off-topic" as a comment.

Moderators shouldn't be judging a report on the user that reported it, to be honest I would be surprised if any moderators take this into account. I tend to just check the reported post, and the message provided by the user reporting rather than checking the user that actually reported it. Obviously, we do tend to notice certain users subconsciously, but I'd like to think that it doesn't factor into our decision making process.

Also, as linked above I've written a sort of guide which covers most things you'll come across on the forum, and when paired with mprep's unofficial guidelines, you can't go too far wrong.

[PrimeNumber7]

As long as you are not intentionally reporting posts that you know are not against the rules, it is okay if you have some bad reports. If your accuracy is in the low 20's (or lower), you are still helping the mods address posts that are against the rules.

As you become a more experienced forum member, you will naturally get better at reporting posts.

[Lucius]

That's happened to me in the past too, and they usually tend to be marked as good after some time; worry not much about them

If the post is marked as "bad", I think only admins have the ability to change that status (maybe global mods), but ordinary mods and staff can't do that. I’ve had a few cases where a reported post was good but was mistakenly marked as bad, but I never tried to change that.

[Csmiami]

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I don't think I've ever requested to change a bad to good, even if it was wrongly marked (we do all make mistakes after all...). However, the qoute comes from a situation in which a handful of reported posts are deleted but left unhandled. After a while and not asking mods to change the status, they tend to get marked as good. The same goes for "expired" unhandled reports, they can only ba changed by an admin.

[_BlackStar]

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Welsh, I've found several spammers and have also reported them to a moderator so every one of those reports has been flagged as good. But now some of them are starting to avoid posting on boards that I used to visit quite often looking for spammers and they are starting to look for safe points ^{[other spam board]} so that posts don't get deleted but still have spam quality. Can I PM you some of the names I monitor are constantly publishing spam posts just to get paid?


Hey guys, this is my report stats so far. My report not much, but it would be more if I had 4-5 hours of time on this forum every day. Just wanted to help, I hope.

[LoyceV]

Can I PM you some of the names I monitor are constantly publishing spam posts just to get paid?

You can also post a list in Meta (I did, it works).

[GazetaBitcoin]

After a "reporting spree" at beginning of the year when, for a few months, I managed to have even 15.000 reports within a month (for a few months in a row), I come back with my lattest results:



I am still aiming to that 100% accuracy, which is -- it seems -- sooo hard to get And, whenever I feel very close to reach it, I realize that I'm still stuck at 99% Nevertheless, I'll still work on it!

[JollyGood]

After a "reporting spree" at beginning of the year when, for a few months, I managed to have even 15.000 reports within a month (for a few months in a row), I come back with my lattest results:

To hit a 15,000 reports milestone for several consecutive months in a major feat in itself but to hold a 99% accuracy in just phenomenal. You are seriously dedicated and for that full credit to you trying to clean this place up  

I am still aiming to that 100% accuracy, which is -- it seems -- sooo hard to get And, whenever I feel very close to reach it, I realize that I'm still stuck at 99% Nevertheless, I'll still work on it!

Let me know when you get there, that will be a moment to celebrate especially after 63,000+ posts

I achieved 100% statistics for about 2 years. Over time, in order not to spoil the statistics, I began to send reports that I understood as well as possible and was 99.99% sure that this or that post was subject to moderation. Here, the main thing is to develop a system. I think you are as close as possible to getting 100% accuracy.

Here are my modest reporting results for 3.5 years:

I am speechless  

Well done, I offer my congratulations as that is the first time I recall seeing 100% accuracy and just look at the number of reports, nearly 129,000+

And you call it modest 

[FatFork]

Are you guys living on this forum 24/7? Don't you have anything better to do? 

Seriously, 15,000 reports a month, that's an average of 500 reports a day. How is that even possible? I'm guessing most of these are bots or people writing random stuff. But, still, that's a lot of reports. Something else must be going on here. My theory is that both of you are actually the same person. You've created two accounts and are reporting each other as much as possible. 

[Lafu]

Are you guys living on this forum 24/7? Don't you have anything better to do? 
Seriously, 15,000 reports a month, that's an average of 500 reports a day. How is that even possible? I'm guessing most of these are bots or people writing random stuff. But, still, that's a lot of reports.

To make 500 Reports a day , its possible as i got that a few times when there was that wave with the lot of Fake Announcements years ago.
But if you doing it manually its hard and takes a lot of time for sure even you know where you have to look for.
By the way here are my Stats and my Goal is to hit the 20000 good reports to the end of the year.

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You have reported 19996 posts with 100% accuracy (19884 good, 47 bad, 65 unhandled).

[GazetaBitcoin]

To hit a 15,000 reports milestone for several consecutive months in a major feat in itself but to hold a 99% accuracy in just phenomenal. You are seriously dedicated and for that full credit to you trying to clean this place up  

Thanks, JollyGood I managed doing it at beginning of the year, when I had some more free time than now and, also, I had "the material on the plate", to say so. Meaning that Rikafip holds a topic where he listed, in time (together with others, of course), many topics with ANN bumping services (there were more than 100 topics listed; I think 150 or so). I started in 2020 to clean all those topics, one by one, but I did not have time for all. And, starting December last year, I resumed my earlier work. And I did not stop until I finished cleaning all the topics mentioned inside Rikafip's topic.

Let me know when you get there, that will be a moment to celebrate especially after 63,000+ posts

Hihi, I will

Are you guys living on this forum 24/7?

Yes

Don't you have anything better to do?  

No

Kidding

Seriously, 15,000 reports a month, that's an average of 500 reports a day. How is that even possible?

If I'll say that I had days when I made even more than 1000 reports you may start thinking I am an AI

I'm guessing most of these are bots or people writing random stuff. But, still, that's a lot of reports.

Yes... It was a crazy period when all those ANN bumping services started to fill the forum with spam... Many were the result of people which hired Vitor Services to spam the forum. (Yes, there are services dedicated for such things...) It was difficult to keep the pace, and I did not use any automated tool for reporting -- just reported every post, manually, one by one...

Something else must be going on here. My theory is that both of you are actually the same person. You've created two accounts and are reporting each other as much as possible.  

Loooooooooooool!

[Lafu]

This is easy to do even now, just go to some section, like off-topic, bounty, or goods. Old bumps appear every day, for some period I sent only them, several hundred a day. It turned out somewhere around 15,000-18,000 reports per month only for old bumps.

I know that this possible and make that kind of number of reports a day , but the problem for doing that is to have the time for.
And i dont have that much time as RL things and Work are more important.

By the way at least i reached my Goal for this year now , 20 K good reports
You have reported 20116 posts with 100% accuracy (20002 good, 49 bad, 65 unhandled).

This means not that i stop reporting now 

[Lafu]

After spending 500 days on the forum, during this time I managed to send 150,000 GOOD reports. 1335 reports were not so successful for me.

Congrats for the 150 k good reports , respect.
You hopefully not complaining about the not so successfu 1335 reports , as i think its not bad for 150,000 good reports.
It would be worst if you have the halve of good reports marked as bad  

On this why here are my Statistics for 216 days logged in on the Forum:
You have reported 20325 posts with 100% accuracy (20209 good, 50 bad, 66 unhandled)

[Lafu]

Since nobody has written in here for some time i bring it back with some update on my end.
I nearly reached my goal for this year  to get 1000 reports done , but there are a few needed for that.
At the moment my Stats are : You have reported 21186 posts with 100% accuracy (21069 good, 50 bad, 67 unhandled).

[examplens]

Honestly, I've completely lost interest in reporting spam. I know I don't need to worry about accuracy, but I got the feeling that it became a waste of time, both mine and the moderator's, considering that some obvious off-topic spam posts remained unhandled.
So, just ignore spammers and move on.

[digaran]

Honestly, I've completely lost interest in reporting spam. I know I don't need to worry about accuracy, but I got the feeling that it became a waste of time, both mine and the moderator's, considering that some obvious off-topic spam posts remained unhandled.
So, just ignore spammers and move on.

Show us 5 obvious off topic spam posts, you might be aware that every mod has a different opinion as to how to moderate, but they all do their part.
I myself don't bother to report a post from a member who is known to be a frequent poster on a certain topic, but if I see a stranger coming in to post off topic on a thread, I report it.

Another thing, usually higher ranks can get away from off topic posts, because they don't do it all the time. For example I had a somewhat off topic post on tech board, it was deleted, later I realized it was actually a kind favour to me to delete that post, every board has it's rules.

If you expect a thank you for reporting, I personally thank you for your contribution and I'm sure everyone else feels the same.

Ps, mods can't babysit us all the time, we have to watch our actions as well, that is on it's own a contribution IMO.

[Lafu]

Since its a long time that anybody have written in here i making the first step as i reached my personal goal for this year.
My goal was to make the 22000 good reports full and that is what happend the last days "You have reported 22120 posts with 100% accuracy (22001 good, 52 bad, 67 unhandled)"
But this means not that i will stop reporting and the next goal for sure is the 23 K mark.

[Mia Chloe]

Since its a long time that anybody have written in here i making the first step as i reached my personal goal for this year.
My goal was to make the 22000 good reports full and that is what happend the last days "You have reported 22120 posts with 100% accuracy (22001 good, 52 bad, 67 unhandled)"
But this means not that i will stop reporting and the next goal for sure is the 23 K mark.

Personally I report posts too especially when they are low quality, spam or scam posts or even placed in the wrong board sometimes. However a total post report count of over 21k isn't a day's job. I hope to get to somewhere near at least someday. Reporting posts to moderators seem to be the better option than warning the op for same reasons.
They best part I noticed about reporting posts is that it cleans the forum from scams and spams. Most time moderators may not notice that a post is likely low quality or in a wrong board simply because they likely didn't have the spare time of going through it or because the post simply had a catchy title and so moderators just assume that they are ok in such boards.