Question For The Mods

If you feel it needs attention, please report it. We only can read so many threads in the amount of time that we are on here, so when members report posts, we really do appreciate it. We all try to discuss the situation and come to a decision together, as far as what will be done. So it might not happen right away, if you report something that you feel needs attention. But believe me, every reported post does get reviewed by the team.

Thanks for asking, and again, we always appreciate help from the community.

 

I would encourage all members to report posts that contain bigotry so we can address those posts. It takes all of us, moderators, and members, working together to police this site and keep it free of bigotry and whatnot. There are allot of new posts made everyday and with our limited number of staff members we can't be everywhere or read every post on the site, so we depend on you guys to help us out.

 

Thanks, pattyj, I appreciate the kind words about the staff. I need to make a couple corrections, though:

- We do not read all the threads and posts. ~60,000 new posts are added every month, and the staff only sees a fraction of them. We rely on members using the 'Report Post' feature to alert us to posts that need attention from the staff.

- We do not always have a moderator on the site. Moderators don't work shifts, they volunteer their time as their schedule allows (or in some cases they make it part of their daily schedule), so there are gaps of time when no moderators are on. When moderators do come back on, sometimes there is a list of reported posts they have to deal with, so there are plenty of reasons why a member might report a post and have to wait a few hours before action is taken.

Thanks, it's a huge compliment to the staff that we've fooled you into thinking that we're everywhere all the time. I just don't want anyone to think that they're being ignored when it's not the case.