Are mods just giving up or is the reporting function broken?

Because the answer is they don't want to, basically. It's a bit rich to complain that a certain policy like explaining mod actions on thread would overburden them, or saying abuse is slipping through because the old mods are not active when the blindingly obvious answer is more hands on deck.

It's not as if anyone is getting paid here, so it isn't like they can't afford it. Though to be fair they don't even know who is modding the site at the moment.

Admitting needing extra hands isn't a failure - another large Irish forum has a call out for extra help at the moment for next year.

You can edit it out and still leave the mod warning on thread instead of deleting the post fully.

If you accept that, what is the medium term strategy then for the forums without cover? The current system is completely inadequate, so something needs to be done. What's the plan?

If all the eggs are in the "we'll get our vbulletin functionality back again and all will be good in the world" basket well then the site is done for. The idea that anyone is going to invest heavily in developing custom code for a site that was shrinking even before this calamity is laughable. You'll get maintenance, that's it. There needs to be an acceptance that the state the site is in currently is going to be the state it will end up in, minor tweaks to the skin aside. The old mod tools won't be back.

Ah here c'mon it's a forum not the national gold reserves you're looking after. Put a call out, and look at the responses from those with decent post histories. This isn't that difficult, or rather it's only as difficult as you want it to be.

And then so what if you pick a poor candidate. Demod them, move on. They can't even do that much damage since they don't have the tools to anyway.

So if you're not going to appoint more people, what's the plan? What will you do when the remaining few move on as they will naturally do? Remember, those vbulletin tools aren't coming back.

Do you know what would help mods at the moment? Not having to waste their time continually responding to people who are just badgering them even though they have been given answers over and over again

They are free to ignore me just like a lot of reported posts if they like.

The thread has been illuminating though. Not only do we know that we have insufficient mods at the moment, for those that retire there is no way to replace them either - since the way they are appointed is so inflexible. I can't be the only one that sees this a a huge problem for the site going forward.

Its safe to say that Boards is being propped up by Beasty and has been for a number of months. The man deserves to get paid.

I apologise to @Pawwed Rig for personalising the debate. I was picking up on the point he was making that he is currently modding a lot less but it was an unnecessary snide comment that I shouldnt have made.

My comments/suggestions about not deleting posts were constructive and aimed at improving the site.

The thread is about the Irish Professor lost on Everest - you can find it easily enough yourself.

Take a look and I’d appreciate a comment from you here. Do you still think what you said a few posts up still holds?

I did pm a variety of the mods but they defended the thread and did nothing to stop the disgusting comments. My interest is that I know some of the people involved.

Anyway, I suspect this is a waste of time but it is disgusting that this was allowed and is still on boards. How do you think his young family felt reading that sh1t?