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I'm also curious about your eye for an eye reference. It seems out of place.
Can you elaborate?
Users help the mods out by reporting posts, it's only fair that that user gets some feedback on it to know they did good or helped something, you know?
I mean eye for an eye in the sense that you give and you receive, I just couldn't think of a better way of saying it until now
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From a users perspective it would be good but from a mod perspective no.Midnight_EG wrote: »So you get what I mean about having a forum not unlike the SIGPO one then, would a mod agree with that?
One reason is because the thread that the reported post creates is frequently used by the mods to discuss the best course of action over a particular post and that resource would no longer be available.
Second reason is that any subsequent reports about the same post are lumped into the same thread to avoid confusion - they would have to be split into individual threads per user and then the mod's workload would be multiplied by the number of reports to reply to.
Third is people have agendas and will report users posts because they are angry or whatever - if they get a reply that no action was required because a mod has looked impartially at a post then they could potentially take up a lot of time trying to argue their case that user x is a muppet and should be banned despite the rules and mods saying otherwise.0 -
Midnight_EG wrote: »Says I have a thanked post, but I can't see anything between my last thanked posts between those dates...so in this way I'd only assume it was a post thanked from maybe a year ago or some other time that I can't see.
No indication for me that it was a reported post that was thanked, so I can't assume it was acted on
Agree with this, this corresponds with the answer I was given when I queried why I occasionally got thanks that I could not 'account for'. Its not a big deal, just a bit pointless.0 -
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Dragging this up from the other thread (Dammit Ber, I nearly lost a big post!
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Well you see there's a technical issue here more than anything else.Wolfe Tone wrote: »But it can appear otherwise, and if some new poster reports 3 or 4 posts and as far as he sees they have been ignored he isnt gonna bother to report any more posts in the future.
The question is how? If you report a post, how does boards tell you that the post has been read by a moderator? The moderator can't PM you directly for every reported post, that's not feasible.
Perhaps a "flag" appears on the post which is removed by the moderator when they read it (single click). But then you're flagging reported posts publically, which is not something we really want to do (though I just had an idea, give me a minute).
You can't do it in the form of a PM when a moderator reads the thread; there are multiple mods, and one may read it, but decide that it's not urgent enough to be sorted now (cos they're on mobile or something), and instead leave it for another mod to sort. In that case, you'll get an alert but it appears like nothing has been done.
Likewise, it can't be done on the basis of the reported posts thread; I get reported posts into my email. I usually click on the link in the email rather than look at the reported posts forum.
Right, so back to the idea I had, a proposal;
1. You report a post.
2. A little red flag appears on that post, which only you can see. The text behind the image is "You have reported this post".
3. When a moderator looks at the thread, he likewise sees a red flag on any posts which have been reported. Handy at first glance to see what has and hasn't been reported.
4. If/when the moderator takes action, they click on the little red flag, which turns it green. This tells the user (who reported the post) that it's been looked at, and it also tells other moderators that another mod has taken action.
When a flag is red, other users can still report the post and see the red flag.
When a flag is green, the user is told that the post has already been seen and dealt with by a moderator, but asks them to PM the moderator if they feel further action is necessary.
Thoughts? Yes, it's a little more work for mods. And there may be red flags unnecessarily all over the place. Personally I think the current system works, but there are communication issues, both between mods and between mods and users.0 -
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Sorry Seamus.
People can take it for granted that a Mod reads all reported posts.
They automatically get an e-mail when something is reported in their forum.
CMods also get an e-mail.
Myself and other Admins read in the Reported Posts Forum regularly.
It would be a very unusual thing indeed for a reported post not to be read.pickarooney wrote: »What do you thank exactly? It's a nice idea but if you thank a random post by the user who reported it (s)he's probably not going to know why.
I thank their reported post.0 -
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Sorry Seamus.
People can take it for granted that a Mod reads all reported posts.
They automatically get an e-mail when something is reported in their forum.
CMods also get an e-mail.
Myself and other Admins read in the Reported Posts Forum regularly.
It would be a very unusual thing indeed for a reported post not to be read.
I thank their reported post.
But unless the person is a mod they won't know you've thanked it...0 -
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Well you see it doesn't address the "has the report been seen" issue
No. But I already addressed that.
pickarooney wrote:Hardly, but it seems completely pointless to thank a person for taking the trouble to report a post when they can't see the thanks
I know they can't see it, but it does add to their thanks count. For some, that's very important!0 -
pickarooney wrote: »Hardly, but it seems completely pointless to thank a person for taking the trouble to report a post when they can't see the thanks
Like thanking an ATM
Personally I thank a reported post to show that I've looked into it to save my co-mods starting to action it only to discover that there's no need. Its more a dual use of a system thats already there than anything else.0 -
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Midnight_EG wrote: »I haven't had any feedback on my SIGPO-a-like-idea from an Admin...can I get one?
Steve's answer pretty much summed up why it wouldn't work.
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I'm about a week behind replying to mod pm's at the moment - stuff got busy in work and keeping the job has to be priority nowadays.If people want feedback from a reported post, they can PM a mod of the forum for clarity
I agree that a mod can't be expected to reply to every single person who reports, but PM's are two way...
Don't give out if you can't be arsed PMing yourself!
It's also the reason they upped the inbox limit to 25,000 for mods :rolleyes: 0 -
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