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Good Morning All!
Moderators and non Moderators alike, lend me your ears! (or eyes in this case!) With all the recent stress and aggravation caused by the JA's, we at Freeola are wishing to know exactly what:
A) Moderators - what would you like to be able to do, to be able to perform your jobs more effectively?
B) Regulars and chatters - What would you like to see Moderators able to do, to be able to help protect the forums from spammers and abusive users? Or do you think they currently have enough power?
Once we know exactly what you want to be able to do on here, without having to worry about alerting us staffies all the time, (although we should always be lurking to take action) we should be able to make this a better place to be.
Moderators and non Moderators alike, lend me your ears! (or eyes in this case!) With all the recent stress and aggravation caused by the JA's, we at Freeola are wishing to know exactly what:
A) Moderators - what would you like to be able to do, to be able to perform your jobs more effectively?
B) Regulars and chatters - What would you like to see Moderators able to do, to be able to help protect the forums from spammers and abusive users? Or do you think they currently have enough power?
Once we know exactly what you want to be able to do on here, without having to worry about alerting us staffies all the time, (although we should always be lurking to take action) we should be able to make this a better place to be.
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I would like to have a warning option available - as I had to deal with one of the annoying JA's the other day. But otherwise the way it was handled by the staffies was excellent.
If that option isn't available, a mod messenger system would be good - where we can message to other mods about a situation and discuss the possible outcome. Perhaps like a mod staff room :D Sorry Seraphim, Bullet & Borat (I think I stole your idea here).
A vote warning system - the three strike system sounds very popular - and I think the 3 votes should be done by three different users.
I also believe universal mods should be used. Get rid of forum specific mods and just keep everyone as universal. That way, more mods will find it easier to help sort out the problem.
Maybe a toolbar could be available? Buttons to flag posts to the staff mods and quick buttons to add text quoting what terms the user has violated. Finding and typing the rules for the time I reported the JA for causing trouble took a lot of time and effort.
Well, there are a few ideas and it would be interesting to see what some of the other mods think.
If that option isn't available, a mod messenger system would be good - where we can message to other mods about a situation and discuss the possible outcome. Perhaps like a mod staff room :D Sorry Seraphim, Bullet & Borat (I think I stole your idea here).
A vote warning system - the three strike system sounds very popular - and I think the 3 votes should be done by three different users.
I also believe universal mods should be used. Get rid of forum specific mods and just keep everyone as universal. That way, more mods will find it easier to help sort out the problem.
Maybe a toolbar could be available? Buttons to flag posts to the staff mods and quick buttons to add text quoting what terms the user has violated. Finding and typing the rules for the time I reported the JA for causing trouble took a lot of time and effort.
Well, there are a few ideas and it would be interesting to see what some of the other mods think.
I think, for the forum I 'mod' at least, we should be able to:
Lock a thread - rather than deleting it entirely, it stops any more posts being made, and then a Staffie can decide whether to ban it or not
The ability to 'freeze' users; basically, rather than banning them you could stop the posting across the board for a while. Barring a user, I believe is only relevant to the forum you moderate.
Equally, I think there should be some element of cross-forum moderation - I spend a reasonable amount of time in Gen Chat, and as such see a lot of 'flaming', spamming and generally inappropriate threads. The ability to edit posts should be allowed.
Although banning users or deleting posts may seem necessary, I think that really as long as a post is edited, a user frozen, or thread locked this will basically end any users inappropriate behaviour. Yes they might spam consisitently, so a cross forum freeze might be better than a simple one forum barring.
I think for a user to be banned they need to have obviously committed several 'offences', then at least three moderators should sign some sort of petition, which the Staffies can then use to remove the user.
There's my thoughts at least, and they could easily be edited to popular opinion and what the Staffies think
Lock a thread - rather than deleting it entirely, it stops any more posts being made, and then a Staffie can decide whether to ban it or not
The ability to 'freeze' users; basically, rather than banning them you could stop the posting across the board for a while. Barring a user, I believe is only relevant to the forum you moderate.
Equally, I think there should be some element of cross-forum moderation - I spend a reasonable amount of time in Gen Chat, and as such see a lot of 'flaming', spamming and generally inappropriate threads. The ability to edit posts should be allowed.
Although banning users or deleting posts may seem necessary, I think that really as long as a post is edited, a user frozen, or thread locked this will basically end any users inappropriate behaviour. Yes they might spam consisitently, so a cross forum freeze might be better than a simple one forum barring.
I think for a user to be banned they need to have obviously committed several 'offences', then at least three moderators should sign some sort of petition, which the Staffies can then use to remove the user.
There's my thoughts at least, and they could easily be edited to popular opinion and what the Staffies think
Actually, I agree totally with tnc. They are really good suggestions and I think we should follow at least some of them up.
hippyman wrote:
> Perhaps like a mod staff room :D
> Sorry Seraphim, Bullet & Borat (I think I stole your idea
> here).
or MSN.
> Perhaps like a mod staff room :D
> Sorry Seraphim, Bullet & Borat (I think I stole your idea
> here).
or MSN.
Perfectly put, tnc.
tnc wrote:
> Lock a thread - rather than deleting it entirely, it stops any
> more posts being made, and then a Staffie can decide whether to
> ban it or not
>
> The ability to 'freeze' users; basically, rather than banning
> them you could stop the posting across the board for a while.
> Barring a user, I believe is only relevant to the forum you
> moderate.
>
Not so sure about locking, but certainly freezing users is a great idea. It also makes the mods feel like they have Mortal Kombat style super-powers...
> Lock a thread - rather than deleting it entirely, it stops any
> more posts being made, and then a Staffie can decide whether to
> ban it or not
>
> The ability to 'freeze' users; basically, rather than banning
> them you could stop the posting across the board for a while.
> Barring a user, I believe is only relevant to the forum you
> moderate.
>
Not so sure about locking, but certainly freezing users is a great idea. It also makes the mods feel like they have Mortal Kombat style super-powers...
Harpooning and then freezing.
"GET OVER HERE!"
"GET OVER HERE!"
Not sure about the closing of threads but I like the idea of freezing accounts as long as we can delete their spammy threads and psots still.
When are the changes going to be made?
I'll say.. never
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