At 9/19/06 10:56 PM, AfroUnderscoreStud wrote:
It's gotten to the stage now where portal mods are required. Portal mods would check the flags for flagged submissions in the portal and could decide to either delete them then and there if they break rules, or release them back into the portal if they don't.
I agree wholeheartedly with this idea. I think a moderation team would be the best way to handle it; moderators could vote on whether a submission broke rules, and a decision would be made after five votes (thus removing possibility of a tie). That way, one moderator wouldn't have sole responsibility for the outcome of a flagging.
Having a moderation team would definitely speed up decisions that presently take months.
Also perhaps the portal mods could be given the ability to give users garbage whistles, assuming that user flags a submission for something which clearly isn't an infringement of the rules, such as not liking the author.
Well, if negative whistle points were assigned upon the release of a flash, that would accomplish the same thing. If further punishment is merited, I would think that would fall on the admins to dish out.
At 9/23/06 12:12 PM, Backseat-Mod wrote:
This has probably been suggested thousands of times, but there needs to be some way of telling us we have PMs. I always forget to check mine, and when I do my PMs are days old.
I get an email notification if I don't check my PMs. Make sure your email address is correct in your personal profile.
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Another suggestion: The increased speed at which submissions are being blammed is all fine and good, but it almost completely removes the possibility of useful reviews being written for low-quality submissions. I used to try to write useful reviews and help people avoid making the same mistakes again, but now that submissions are blammed within a minute or two, I'm unable to get a review submitted before the submission is moved to the obits -- and once that happens, the review bounces.
I appreciate the need to keep the portal cleaned up, but maybe it's time to allow posthumous reviews -- at least for a short period of time after a submission has been blammed.