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"Moderators - What Can You Do?"

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.

I don't see the problem in barring someone from a forum. Plenty of other forums for them to appeal in and if they're troublesome in those then they get barred from all the forum at the discretion of the different mods.

It's not like there's a mod who can ban a poster from all the forums.

pb wrote:
> Flag users for possible banning (sent to staff)

I can see what you mean by doing this. However surely if we flag someone for banning, we would have more then enough reason to do so. Therefore should be able to give an outright ban there and then if needed. You know what the staff are like. There rarely about, they get round to doing things eventually. Hence why they have mods to help control the place. (I know we see alot of Vexxxed at the minute, must be after a bonus) However were limited on what we can do there for its really having no effect on the place.

Vexxxed wrote:
>
> At the moment any modifications made to posts are sent through
> to ourselves so ensure no one is abusing their powers.

Is this true or is it another fib like Snuggly saying they (staffies) could see what we'd written in a post before it was edited? :)

AliBoy wrote:
> If mods deletes posts or edit them then there should be some
> message left in place of the original message such as
>
> Post deleted by 'Moderator' then the date and the reason why it
> was removed.

I do that anyway, although I've only edited one thing and eelted nothing.

I had to move a spoiler warning to the top of the thread and I made it clear at the top of the thread that I'd done just that.

Machie wrote:
> As soon as a mod abuses his powers then by all means the staffies
> should demote him ( or her ;P)


Agreed!

My Thoughts:

Allow Mods to:
Delete posts (including JATs) - these would be highlighted to staff, who can still have access to the deleted post in case of any mistake/bad intentions.

Flag users for possible banning (sent to staff)

Sticky items (currently done)

Amend posts after original poster gives their consent (maybe a list of people who are happy with a certain Mod amending their posts). Mainly in case people are away etc...

I think mods should be able to bar users from their forum and those users can appeal to the staffies.

The one thing I'd like to see is Biglime stripped of his mod status (if he hasn't been already) many of the regs have disagreed with his heavy-handed modding, and whilst I haven't noticed it myself I believe those involved and would support them if they wanted Limey de-modded.

As soon as a mod abuses his powers then by all means the staffies should demote him ( or her ;P)

Hedfix wrote:
> Machie wrote:
>
> It did get abused by someone at the beginning and staffies had
> to unbar 2 people.
>
> Not by me. :P

Suprisingly =P

Hedfix wrote:
> Yep, just had a look and I can bar non-mod regs but not JATS.

I think you can bar newbies too.