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Posted by: DTA MoonDawg
Here is my suggestion. To give members a better sense of duty with reporting posts, I suggest adding a little comment box to describe the situation of what happened in the thread. With this system, a user clicks "Report Post", types in a few sentences describing what the culprit did, and submits it. A forum ninja or administrator can then read the post and become aware of what happened without having to read through the entire thread.
The problem with this is that it would consume even more of forum ninjas' time, which they would probably rather spend doing other things. It must already take a fair amount of time to go through all the reports for posts, lock threads, ban users etc. so having to read a description of each post would take even more time.
I also do not see this significantly helping. If the thread needs locking, the ninja will still have to look at the OP, or at each of the numerous reports of spam in the thread. Either way the ninja would still have to look at each post, to see if it is in fact inappropriate/spam, before locking the thread. If it is simply reporting one post, the ninja would still have to read that single post, before issuing bans etc..
I cannot see how adding in a description would give assist in moderating or in giving a sense of duty. Possibly if there was some form of notification telling you when action had been taken, because of your report, that would give a sense of duty. However, simply putting in small details of a post (which the ninja will have to read anyway) does not sound as if it would help.
[Edited on 08.10.2011 2:53 PM PDT]