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Could we have a 'Moderator Alert'

Trainspotter

This is mainly for the moderators to consider.

Could we have a 'Moderator alert'.  Perhaps as a 'Sticky', perhaps as an easy to find 'button' or something else.

This should be a means of alerting moderators to threats, safety, spamming, or other 'serious' issues.  It would need some thought as to how it would work, but it should also include a facility to private message the moderator with words of explanation as to what the problem is.

The present 'Report as abusive' is not really fit for purpose as it does not really seem to do anything or if it does it takes days to work at times.  I envisage the 'Alert' facility to get a moderator to deal with the situation within two hours if possible, and also to provide information.

There should also be a sticky to explain what is acceptable and what is not.  Yes we have some rules, but these appear to be subject to interpretation and are flouted.  It should perhaps explain unacceptable behaviour such as trolling, spamming, and threats and the consequences.  This might also help prevent public spats on the forums.

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  • As i stated in another thread I am really surprised at how bad this forum is. Sadly I suspect that due to the vanity of someone wanting a forum integrated into the website someone was paid a fortune to do a custom job or some code was imported to give a forum to a website but it is very limited and it's a sad situation because it's so easy to set up a forum on free software.

    As for availability of moderators I do not buy it. Something is deeply wrong when it takes a moderator 2 days to intervine. As I explained I moderate an electronics forum, initially as a volunterr but now the site owner chucks me some money every month because he can afford it being a largish youtuber with a blog and the forum. If I get a report I act very quikly not two days later because these things just get worse if they are left.

    The site software is indeed lacking a report function on each post which is a basic requirement and every free software has it.

    As attractive as integrating a forum with your site is for vanity reasons it is much better to have a seperate software install that works and is free!

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  • As i stated in another thread I am really surprised at how bad this forum is. Sadly I suspect that due to the vanity of someone wanting a forum integrated into the website someone was paid a fortune to do a custom job or some code was imported to give a forum to a website but it is very limited and it's a sad situation because it's so easy to set up a forum on free software.

    As for availability of moderators I do not buy it. Something is deeply wrong when it takes a moderator 2 days to intervine. As I explained I moderate an electronics forum, initially as a volunterr but now the site owner chucks me some money every month because he can afford it being a largish youtuber with a blog and the forum. If I get a report I act very quikly not two days later because these things just get worse if they are left.

    The site software is indeed lacking a report function on each post which is a basic requirement and every free software has it.

    As attractive as integrating a forum with your site is for vanity reasons it is much better to have a seperate software install that works and is free!

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