[EricH]

Originally Posted by ollien

Patrolling isn't needed. What's needed is for people to check reports for something like the blatant spam on rumor mill.

But if they don't LOOK at the rumor mill, why would they want to get the reports?

See, that's what I'm trying to get at. There's a lot of people that don't like Chit-Chat, Rumor Mill, and some of the other forums. If those people are mods, do they want to moderate stuff they don't normally want to look at? (Or, if you were a mod, would you?) I really don't think so!

The Rumor Mill (since you called that one out in particular) has 13 moderators and one webmaster (look at the bottom of the forum's page). I can vouch that I've seen recent activity from at least three of the mods (deletions in Rumor Mill), and posts from some others--so maybe half of them have been online in the past week. Most of them are on Central time, so that'd give some best-guess as to when they'd be online (and, you know, deleting threads). Many of the moderators use "Invisible Mode", so telling when they're actually online is nearly impossible. Sure, reporting sends emails--but the question of whether email is being checked is an open one. (I tend to get notifications of email, but whether I pay attention is another story--and I'm not a mod anyways.)

I think having more moderators in "spam-target" forums is a good thing--but I'm not sure that expanding the permissions of the current moderators would go over quite as well with those moderators.