[jambutty]

Originally Posted by emamum23

Jambutty..i know you expect mods to be all powerful,omnipotent beings but how do you expect them to read every single post that is made?
The mods do a great job and also have lives and jobs at the same time! They dont get paid for this, they do it for us. They cant spend all their time looking for threads that may offend people.....THATS WHAT THE REPORT BUTTON IS FOR!!!! So that the mods dont have to trawl throu (probably) 100's of posts every day..

Maybe all the mods would like to have a day off and leave the job to you and then maybe you will stop complaining that (in your opinion) they are not doing a good enough job

No emamum23, I expect mods to do their job and that is to moderate, not sit back and wait for complaints. Moderating means actively enforcing the forum rules without fear or favour not searching for posts that might offend someone. Most people accept the more common swear words as part of the normal vocabulary whereas some people might find them offensive. The rules state no swearing. It doesn’t mean that swearing will be allowed just as long it doesn’t offend someone and if it does the offended should report it.

So if that means reading every single post then so be it. But a mod of any experience in that forum will know who is likely to transgress and thus can safely target just those posts first.

Years ago the police actively enforced society’s laws by being on the streets and keeping law and order. Today they rely too much on complaints from the public and we moan about that and want them back on the streets.

The Report button is there to report a post that breaches the forum rules as an aid to the mods not as a replacement.

I am a mod of over five years experience on another forum and me and the other three mods manage to read every single post that is made without any problems. There is one mod in Canada, me in the UK, one in Thailand and one in Australia and there is always one of us on-line at all times. We don’t have any specific times to be on-line but in general we log in during our afternoons.