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Posted by: spawn031
Posted by: DEUCE MORELLI
I see you point with your posts. However there is one common flaw with it. These moderators aren't getting paid for their services here. This is pure volunteer work. If, however, this was much more highly organized and such perhaps more moderators could be undertaken to cover all forums in primetime for all timezones, then you could expect every forum to be covered.
The way the moderation is now though isn't to far a field from the ideal though. Usually threads that need locking and banning are done within 30 minutes or so of being posted.
Unless a mod is actually on the forum or a lot of people hit report, it can take longer than 30 minutes for some of the more popular ones.
It's because it's a volunteer role that more are needed, and giving them specific forums to look after could make it worthwhile. There was a time two weeks ago where multiple folks were posting racist comments in a post about a video from Allworldhiphop. I and multiples reported it, yet it took almost 4 hours before it was moderated, despite one person who reported the thread posting a link to it in a Community Forum thread a mod was actively participated in and asked why nothing had been done.
Additionally, it took about two hours for this troll to finally have posts deleted. A large part of it has to do with many people in the Flood not "disagreeing" with this type of content, along with the report button being used to "harass" people certain posters don't like, but there's a pretty good case to make that moderating needs to be rethought in some fashion (possibly using the vBulletin rank of Mods, SuperMods and Admin, for example); this is only one suggestion - I'm sure others have equally valid suggestions for revamps.
That may be an example of a mod not paying much attention, but it also goes to the idea that they're here as volunteers to have fun - giving them 13 forums to work on simultaneously may not be the most effective method of utilization. Hence my suggestion.