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I notice that there is no longer any way to report offensive posts, or posts that violate the forum rules. Or if there is, it's well hidden or turned off.
I don't have anything to report at the moment, but I couldn't if there were.
I don't have anything to report at the moment, but I couldn't if there were.
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Similarly a working parachute is not important enough to hold back on performing a skydive.
It has been done, but not generally seen as a wise move that paid off.
Clearly reflecting the fact that there are no more offensive posts in the New Order Forums.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
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And the lack of ignore functionality = no life jackets.
And, oh hey, the "infraction" system is gone = the helmsman has narcolepsy.
I'm really, really tempted to start an intentional (but not especially serious) flamewar thread.
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Just to follow up on that, one of the tickets I sent in brought that up. I was told we are now supposed to manually PM the moderatorswith a report.
And how are you supposed to do that when they don't show a list of moderators anywhere?
(I know that there is a post that says who they are, but you have to know where to go look for it. Also kind of assumes that our community moderators on the old forums are still moderators on the new ones...)
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10 mins ago there was a post harassing DStahl... now it's gone... Deleted... It's not even locked as they used to be.
I saw that one... I'm not the Cryptic defender I used to be, but I've gotta say that's one thread that deserved annihilation.
But that thread screamed for the whamhammer... it was an in-your-face and very visible violation.
Can't understand how people let themselves get outraged over a game and lose it like that. When I got to that point last year I quit. When my objections went away with the F2P release, I came back. If I get mad in the forums, I take a break and don't look at them for a few days.
The point's to have fun, not to raise the blood pressure. Which is why we do need effective troll-control measures like knowing how to report stuff.
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Oh I agree... At the very least he could have been polite and significantly more diplomatic.
Angry or not... It dosen't give them the right to be idiots. This guy was WAY over the top with his post.
Im gonna wait a little... If moderation is as effective from now on as it was with that particular thread, I see little reason for a report tool. if not... yea... bring it back.
Don't see how it can be that effective all the time. The thread was addressed to a Dev, the EP for crying out loud, and the very first post was a clear infraction. Very noticeable, easy to spot, and no context needed to establish the fault.
Contrast that with a less visible thread, not directed at a dev, where the post is not strictly relevant to the thread itself and may not even be a personal attack, just offensive.
If there's no official moderator listed, you can't know who to PM... aside from maybe Brandon, and I can just imagine how much stuff he has to wade through in a given day.
Depending on the nature of the offense, I guess I'd try the civil way first... PM or respond to the offender and politely ask them to retract before I go to the trouble of seeking out a mod. If I get flamed in response, then I'll know there's no point in reasoning and seek a resolution accordingly.
EDIT: Actually, I just realized you can't PM folks unless they let you. If privacy's turned on, you get nowhere.
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That's probably what they're looking at. Some of the forums I've moderated on, it was assumed by the pointy haired bosses that the mods were supposed to be all knowing and all aware of what was happening in the forums and there was no interaction on the users part for moderation.
Of course I had three users with sig images that went upwards of three weeks without any response on reports on the old forums....
Besides that folks, you need to remember that mods are volunteers for starters but they're also human. Mods can only look at forums so much during a day/week hehe.
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One of these was a 700 x 500 image that was still there after being reported a number of times. Even asked if it was being allowed. I have never been on a forums where I wasn't allowed to interact with a reporter. In fact on some of them, it was encouraged. If they aren't here, well it's just yet another example of how out of touch these folks are in this forum.
I know they're volunteers. I covered my past moderator history in another thread.
edit: You also don;t tick off those trying to help you doing your "job". Learned that a long time ago as well.
The new system is less about user rights and more about them wanting complete say over what is posted here.
Though the lack of report feature is a bit TRIBBLE in that aspect
on second thought ... it might just be plain laziness