Reporting Spam

[Brandon Martus]

I won't be adding any more moderators at the moment. The coaches are still working on the final rule changes, and I am going to ask that they put together some kind of criteria on how/when to add a moderator. Asking/volunteering, nominating, etc., won't have any impact on whether or not they will be added as moderators.

[ahecht]

The only problem I see with this is that it will bring spam topics back to the top of the portal. I know it would take quite a bit of rewriting, and Brandon is a busy guy, but I think a better long-term solution would be for the board to only allow each post to be reported once and then disabling the function.

[Amanda Morrison]

Originally Posted by ahecht

The only problem I see with this is that it will bring spam topics back to the top of the portal. I know it would take quite a bit of rewriting, and Brandon is a busy guy, but I think a better long-term solution would be for the board to only allow each post to be reported once and then disabling the function.

Actually, it seems as though it's been working fine so far. (It's certainly better than a post being reported 20 times.) There's enough moderators on the forum at almost any given time to where reported posts and spam don't last very long at all. For the two minutes it gets bumped back up the portal, it's not a big deal considering it is deleted shortly thereafter.

This helps cut down significantly on mod emails, as well as letting other users know that it's being taken care of.