Moderation of the forum

[RAIST]

lol... and there are threads on here complaining they have been too heavy handed with the moderation.

Probly just a bit overwhelming for the handful of staff members assigned to it. People need to use the report feature more I guess to flag their attention to the off-the-wall posts.

[Arcon]

lol... and there are threads on here complaining they have been too heavy handed with the moderation.

I doubt anyone but trolls feel like that. I really wish mods would keep a closer eye on some topics. Sometimes flagging posts isn't ideal, because a single post isn't that bad, but if you take the whole thread, it's one giant derailed chronology of a flame war between two or more parties. The "Buy Windower" thread is one example (particularly designed to mess with Starcade), most of the "Break WS" thread also falls into that category.

Although I have to say, since it (kinda) falls under this topic, I don't mind mods ignoring those threads so much, I'd rather they focussed on getting our requests through to the developers and relaying a proper response. I know I've mentioned it before, but it's just sad to see so many great ideas go completely unnoticed (or at least it seems that way to us, without any reply from an official).

Although the second suggestion doesn't necessarily preclude the first, quite the opposite, the stricter they are with removing the trolls and spammers, the more time they can invest into researching valid topics, not to mention it would make those easier to spot.

[Windblade]

I doubt anyone but trolls feel like that. I really wish mods would keep a closer eye on some topics. Sometimes flagging posts isn't ideal, because a single post isn't that bad, but if you take the whole thread, it's one giant derailed chronology of a flame war between two or more parties.

Better than moderation is just allowing people to ignore other users, meaning let people create their own blacklists so they never have to see posts from people they don't like. I would prefer that, because oftentimes a thread I'm interested in (even if I'm not posting in it) will be deleted and that makes me mad. It happens in moderated chatrooms on IRC sometimes, too I'll be chatting with someone who is being "abusive" toward me, but I don't mind...and a channel op kicks the person out of the channel when I wasn't even offended. So if someone cusses me out on this board, I don't want the thread closed and I don't want his post deleted. I want *honest communication*, and moderators prevent that.