suggestion?

can you make a "forum police force" that monitors all the post?
i saw at one of the forums that moderators can't really monitor many topics (hey,i'm not saying that u are lazy)because of lack of manpower. and some of the topic posters here add degratory and racial slurs that are offending to some people. I Just wanna help with this issues and i think it's neccesary to check violations so that we can help the moderators to monitor the forums. (just a suggestion)

If you find an appropriate post made by a user, just report it.
Mods will make an appropriate action to it.

Don't need that forum police IMO.

EDIT :

added find*

You're part of the problem, actually.

that's why i'm tryin to change.

It's simple, forums users just need to report others if in violation of the rules.

The 'Militia' of Fakku basically.

We don't need a police force, just report it if you see it.

You could try not posting.

Yeah that pretty much covers it. I'm sure no one knows better than Jacob when the site will need more moderators and he'll add more if he feels it is necessary.

Part of the problem is there is no oversight of the mods. I know a recent example of two users that tend of get on people's nerves. The first user stated an offensive term and Jacob banned him on the spot. Another user state a far more offensive version of what the first user had said and...nothing.

The only reason I can explain it is bias on behalf of certain mods towards certain individuals. Both posts were clearly against the rules and Jacob made an example out of the first offending user.

I think there needs to be another level of oversight by individuals who are not connected to the current set of mods.

Another idea is for all reported posts to have an answer as to why they took a certain action and another person whose job is to make sure they are doing their job correctly.

So a mandatory PM sent to all reported users in violation of the rules, asking for their course of action and if not justified to a reasonable extent that user will receive a ban.

If you reported me for a violation then you would get a PM back from the mod who handled the report and they would explain to you why they took a certain action. If they ban they confirm the ban or deletion of post. If they ignore it they explain why it was ignored.

An expansion of this idea could be an appeal system if you believe the mod did not take the appropriate action.

You're forgetting that this isn't a democracy. The internet, like art, isn't a democracy it is a tyranny. We only get as much say as Jacob wants. That isn't to say that Jacob doesn't value our opinions, but that also means he doesn't have to consider them either. An appeal system would be a huge hassle because there would be constant second guessing. It is up to Jacob to choose mods that he thinks are trustworthy, and we have to assume he made the right decisions even if we don't like them or their decisions.

If it is that bad, all you have to do is mention it to Jacob and he'll take care of it. *shrugs*

We both know how much I love tyranny. Still a little more oversight can't be a bad thing.

lol, you believe we allow some users to get away with shit due to favoritism?

You're funny.

Well if you can come up with a reason why two users who used the same words resulted in two different outcomes. One got a ban the other got nothing. How do you explain that? Incompetence on behalf of the mods in charge or favoritism, which is it?

neither, there is no set regulation on ban times and we don't all have the power to ban. The rules are subjective so depending on which mod deal with the rule they have different interpretations of how they should be enforced. You know fakku is on the lenient side of forums and our rules have never been set in stone. Unless you want to call Jake out for not putting his foot down every time you have to trust in his judgment, which means you should trust is ours. Just because you want a user like lol12 to eat a ban for something doesn't mean the moderator will agree. I do think we need a set list of rules which are followed to the letter but that isn't how fakku is run. Don't let your paranoia control your grip on reality, we don't love trolls more, we're just more careful about how we deal with them. I used lol12 as an example earlier, I'm fairly sure your example of a user who was not banned for using a word was an example of his work; do you really believe he has friends on the staff? You don't know enough about the staff and how our internal system runs to simply scream favoritism. It's ridiculous for you to try and change the system by accusing us of being poor at our jobs when you're this misinformed.

edit: fakku, like the world is not simply black and white, it's shades of gray.

no,not really, hey,don't judge me quickly will ya?

A while back Jacob personally banned softbanker for saying "fag lover". Jacob at that point set an standard that using the terms "fag lover" in a derogatory sense is a violation of the rules and results in punishment. Loller went beyond that and you did nothing. Either you're bias or incompetent. It really gets annoying when I have to personally contact Jacob and ask him to do the job your too lazy to do. I've had to by-pass the mods entirely on half a dozen occasions since you personally became mod. Each time resulted in deletion of an offending post or a ban. If Jacob is doing the job, you know what those people were doing was wrong. You can't use simple oversight as an excuse either. I've personally reported each of those offenses that Jacob took care of.

you know the only two people who can ban at the moment are matt and Jacob right?

IT MUST BE BECAUSE I LOVE LOL12 BECAUSE I DONT EVER BAN HIM.

You got me there Waar.