I'm aware I'm not staff, but one time when I noticed 3 bots I reported each and every one of the posts and threads they started about nothing. The bot was NOT banned, and the threads were NOT closed and nothing happened...I had to post on one of the staffs profiles before anyone even noticed... . so I assumed they got a little overwhelemed with reports and differen't forum bugs they have to deal with..and thus, they went..unnoticed. I've been here for 4 years, and sometimes, threads DO go unnoticed and unreported and bad things end up happenning, the situation is blown out of proportion and people are banned for it in the end. Just trying to prevent these things from happening.
Plus, again, it's up the staff what they think.
If you're referring to when we first moved to Xenforo, then that was because the software was in it's first Beta stage and many features did not work, including the report button and the banning of troublemakers. Thus me and Tsuyu were powerless, and the Admins were often too busy fixing things. The report feature was restored but me and Tsuyu did not get our punishment abilities until much later (which was recently in fact when I brought it back up to Steve), so during that time... there wasn't much we could do.
Here's a story. I've told Angel and Gikoku about this. A couple of people at FableTLCMod used to place bets on ProjectEgo staff, who would do what to who and when. The last time this happened was right after Gikoku became a moderator here, I really thought he'd want to break in his ban hammer and set an example first thing so I bet on him to be the first to ban some blatant troll in the Fable 3 section. I even cheated a bit, reported the posts and posted on Gikoku's profile. Gikoku gave him a warning, Tsuyu came in later and banned the guy for three days, then Drakan showed up and made the ban permanent, and I completely and utterly lost my bet.
So yea it's true, staff doesn't always do as we please when we please. And sometimes they need to be nagged a bit to do something. I like the idea that if the reports aren't drawing enough attention to a powder keg prone to explode, a quick profile post will do.
There are multiple reasons for why we do not do things right then and there. Bad timing of a report where someone reports something and neither of us has hit the Refresh button for awhile, or is currently at the computer, or we don't believe that whatever was reported was necessary (e.g. someone reporting someone because they simply disagree with them).
Each member of the staff has their own judgment on a situation though we ultimately come to an agreement most of the time that the judgment that was made is acceptable.
Also, at that time when you messaged me on my profile, I didn't refresh my page in time because I was away doing something else for a moment, plus.. when I gave him a warning, I didn't find out about his other terribly trollsome threads/actions until afterward when Tsuyu got him.
Perhaps we're in need of more staff members more than we thought? I imagine there is a lot of reports to surf through, and I'm willing to bet a lot of them are bogus or "i don't agree with this guy, ban him" kind of reports that are meaningless and after a while the current staff members just give up.
Reports were very easy to follow on vBulletin but I'm not sure how it works on XenForo so maybe it's not as easy as I thought it would be to follow them. I guess moderators sometimes let things slip, and obviously having more would reduce this chance.
Not to advertise myself but I've had a lot of experience in this field before and I'd be willing to do it. Mind you, it's not much of an achievement to be able to make a just judgement. There are probably people more worthy for the post of moderator than me. Especially since I don't post much anymore. Mind you, that could also work to the sites advantage provided I did my job, which I'd try my best to.
Not really, reports on here are easy to spot (they appear at the top of the page and are hard to miss) very convenient and easy to handle than they were on vBulletin. The main issue with the reports is that people simply aren't using them when they should. Just right now, someone reported a spambot and I cleaned it up and banned it... but this was the first Report of December, the last one was in November after Thanksgiving. I don't know why people aren't using it, maybe they haven't noticed, maybe they're afraid to use it, ,maybe they don't know how, maybe they don't feel like using it, or perhaps they feel like taking matters into their own hands... I don't know.
But I really wish people would use them a lot more, would help get things done much quicker. Honestly I wouldn't mind another member or members to the team, but that's ultimately up to the Admins themselves.
