- Nerd Boi
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Posted by: Achronos
Some of them only read a few forums and use the reporting system to keep them appraised of the rest of the places that need their attention.
You know, because that is the entire freaking purpose of the report system. I don't expect them to make their experience here suck because their forced to lurk in places they don't like to go. The report system let's them just wait for stuff to pop up in there.
So use it, and stop complaining about how volunteers sometimes aren't giving you 24/7 full coverage.
Posted by: Nerd Boi
Why not exactly? The moderators constantly stress that they're ordinary members just like you, me or the OP. What exactly is stopping them from simply stumbling across them like the OP did?I'm well aware that they're not going to browse every forum. I'm not expecting them to. What I am expecting if anything is that there will be a wide enough cross section that there is coverage. I'm certainly aware that occasionally there will be days/nights where there simply won't be anyone on because of real life scheduling conflicts and people simply not wanting to be on, but I've also noticed that there has been a general gap in coverage for some time.
It's probably not an issue that will ever really be properly resolved with the site as it is, given the smaller pool of users who'd be a position to be useful ninjas during this gap, and the likely even smaller pool of those who'd be at all good choices.
This isn't an attack on the staff as it is an attack on the constantly shouted matra to REPORT MORE! As above, I expect that if I see, and many other people see it, it is reasonable to expect that someone with the ability to stop it will also see it. If they do, there is no reason to report. If they dont, then reporting it has no other purpose than tidying up after any damage has been done. That tidying up is fairly pointless, because banning throwaway accounts isn't doing any lasting harm, as it's just on to the next alt.
Following from that, apart from the shock sites/waves of parodies/other mass spamming that actually drown out everything else, which I dont report based on the above, I simply don't get bothered enough by what happens to report. I dont care if you're flaming someone or crossing the line in religion/politics, it isn't worth my time to report you because it isn't going to change anything. Flood will still go on as it is, Halo forums would still go on as they are. Removing the small number of offensive posters isn't going to change much, because we cannot remove bad members.
Throw in on top of that that I find reporting makes my experience here suck because I actually have to go and read bad posts before reporting them and why would I? I'm wasting time I could better spend elsewhere reading crap and clicking buttons.
Perhaps it is simply being optimistic that there should be a sufficiently active and varied ninja population that there is better coverage and little need for the report feature for the more serious stuff, but it is what it is.