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Because there is no set response for a set action on the forums, we use our own discretion. Thus, sometimes things that one moderator might ban for goes with a warning instead. In terms of off topic posts, we allow a certain degree of informality because frankly, if EVERY topic that was a little off topic was locked, then we'd have people complaining we were too strict.
Example: You said topics about people's mics not working shouldn't belong in New Mombasa. Maybe they should, because people are talking about how they're trying to play Halo 2? And there's no set "xBox help" forum here, so I see that as a fine place to discuss it.
We can't catch everything. There's 12 main forums, and 18 moderators. Those 18 moderators aren't on all the time, because, as has been said, we have lives. We have things to do. I haven't been on much lately because my Year 11 exams are on in a week. Other people aren't on often because of holidays or having too much work, or maybe they're just spending time with their families. That's okay, because this is a volunteer job. We're not expected to be here 8 hours a day, every day.
Note that we can't magically look into every single topic on the forum and see which ones are off topic or not. That takes a hell of a lot of time. 25 topics on one page, 12 forums, and... let's say one new topic every 5 minutes. No one can keep up with that. Sure, we could get 20 more moderators on the team, but that'd be stupid. People would bump into each other. It happens even now.
What we see, we get. We're not Wonder Woman. You could help by PMing a moderator with a link to a topic that you think is horribly off topic and should be removed. There's usually one of us on. But please, remember, we also have lives. We're not robots, we're fans just like you and everyone else here.
-TGP-
[Edited on 11/7/2006]