Moderators

[dj_ajax]

People keep complaining about how there is no removal of irrelevant posts at weekends why doesn't AB ed get a regular poster to moderate all the forums at the weekends?

[brawburd]

or why don't they just pay someone to do it?

[smudge]

Well said dj_ajax, but it isn't just at week-ends. It's Monday & at 19:15 & 19:30, two more separate questions appear on Body & Soul regarding anal sex. What is the matter with these morons?

[dj_ajax]

Would you pay someone to sit on their arse brawburd? lol and well then they should be banned by IP address i think so they can't ever go back on this site.

[IndieSinger]

A good idea would be to have a "report" function. If, say, five individual members hit the "report" button on a post, then the offending post would be sent to, say, five moderators by e-mail. If, say, four out of five moderators agreed that it was offensive and against the rules of AnswerBank, then it would be automatically deleted.

This is nothing new, I've seen it on lots of sites and I've even been a moderator of this kind.

And I tend to agree with brawburd - we're lining peoples' pockets by using this site - why can't they put some of it back into the system and pay people to look after this site and give it the respect they want it to have?

[smudge]

Well said IndieSinger!

[DOB]

That's a good idea IndieSinger.

[AB Editor]

Users, please note that EVERY effort is made to remove inappropriate questions as soon as they come to our attention. This site is not manned 24 hours a day, but measures to curb inappropriate questions over weekends, ect are being looked into by Crystal Guides

[UglyFace]

I like the idea of users as moderators, especially if we get paid! Presumably anyone who posts something offensive or breaks the rules of the site gets banned so I guess these things are nipped in the bud pretty quickly. I must say I've seen a lot of very silly / poorly worded / badly spelt questions but nothing offensive as yet so it must be a pretty tiny % of all the posts on this site.