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Originally Posted by EricH
Different mods have different skill sets, if you will, as well as different interests. So rather than having every mod have full access to all the subforums, different mods work different subforums (or rather, different sets of subforums). It's a classic management trick: if you need someone with X skill, make sure that you've got at least Y (3-4) people with that skill, AND make sure that everybody in the relevant group has some Z number of skills. That way, you're covered.
Problem is, usually there's 1-5 mods on at any one time, but there's something like 30 subforums. And some mods only cover one or two subforums, while others cover a lot more.
If I was Brandon, I might think about conducting a moderator survey to see if anybody wanted to expand their coverage into some of the less-moderated subforums, or if a couple of moderators needed to be added.
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It's really an artifact of when they were added. Anyone who got added a long time ago only got given subforums that were relevant to their skillset/knowledge base. At the time spam wasn't even an issue and it was mostly about moderating the actual forum.
Those that got added (relatively) recently were given almost every subforum because of nonstop spam. The older mods probably need to have their subforums expanded and there probably need to be some new ones.
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Originally Posted by ollien
The porn thread, for instance, has been up since 3:30 PM Central today. 10 hours later, it's still up. Regardless, my solution to your issue of mods not reading the reports of separate sections is either a) send reports with "spam" in them to everyone or b) make all reports flood into a central inbox. I'd prefer b, but I'll take what I can get in order to fix these issues.
As a non-mod speaking out his rear: generally, we don't need more moderation. It's the spam that gets to be an issue.
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I understand your complaint, but it just isn't relevant. I am a moderator, but not in the rumor mill forum. I do not get emails reporting that spam, because I cannot moderate it. If I go into the moderator subforum and read the reported post threads I would see that someone reported it, but I still can't do anything about it since I have no moderation privileges in that forum. The issue is there's like one active user who can actually moderate posts in that forum and the other 12+ don't read CD/barely come on CD anymore.