Surprised that austin and rail haven't been approached has they look to being a great job too (well everyone on the list). I don't understand how they can get that many good reports. I don't even see that many 'reportable' posts.
According to your stats your top3 boards are:
Off-topic
Beginners & Help
Bitcoin Discussion
Off-Topic posts are, well off-topic. Most of the time off-topic stuff gets posted elsewhere and moved there. I wonder if ever someone posted in off-topic but it should have been somewhere else.
Beginners & Help is also strange because it allows almost any topic, even somewhat off-topicish posts are ok. In B & H there is also the strange notion that each and every topic can be discussed over and over again. There are some "funny" posts in B & H. On page 1 someone asks X and gets several very good answers from veteran members like DeathAndTaxes and DannyHamilton, OP askes some more questions and gets some more good answers. Thread goes to page 2 and several newbies come in and answer the OP question but in a single low quality sentence. The answers are not false, but they are shallow and a better answer has allready been given. This keeps going until the thread for some unknown reason finally sinks down into B & H Hell after some 100 posts.
Bitcoin Discussion is the "it does not fit elsewhere" board so again not much to report out of there.
Dev & Tech Discussion and Tech Support however get mixed up daily. Same with Tech Support and Mining or Tech Support and the boards for a specific wallet. Trading and Service Discussion get mixed up with eachother as well as with Speculation.
So its all about where you mainly read/post. Some sections need more heed than others.
I don't understand how they can get that many good reports.
If you throw enough shit at the wall, some of it will stick. The staff have always said that it's not so much about accuracy, as it is about the number of reports. Of course, if you report a load of posts about 90 odd percent of them are marked as correct then that's fantastic work.
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I cant talk for the others in the top10 but Im almost allways at >90%. 7 are mods so they are at or over 90% as well, which leaves 2 which might "throw shit at the wall". I however doubt that is true. While it is encouraged to make many reports and worry about your hit ratio later, IMHO people learn which reports get accepted and which not. No, there is no direct feedback but you see which threads get moved, which get deleted and which stay. You see the mods work and thus learn what to put where.
I still think it would be a good idea to gamify [1] the whole reporting business for the new forum software.
Backpack.tf does this very well. You get a % rating and rep points for each correct vote. They are basically makeing the prices for the tf2 market. While they have rules in place to make sure they are not dictating the marketprice, its the place to go and see which item is worth what. Sorry if this is a bit confusing, but thats where I come from.
The same principle could be aplied here. Users report a post/thread and the mods have final say. However the mod decision is made public and may or may not include a comment. Top100 reports are publicly visible on a special page, personal stats (good reports, bad reports, history of reports, etc.) are visible via each users profile and can be made public if the user whishes to. Like mail addresses now. I think the direct feedback - even as simple as in-/corrrect would improve the learning curve for reported posts and thus the overall quality of reports. At the same time this would give an incentive to report in the first place. Many people like stats as this thread shows. Why not give them the stats and get the free workforce?
[1] I hate that word, but I dont know any other that fits.
