Topic: Is this concerning? This could be a conspiracy too. - page 2. (Read 919 times)

Concerning the second issue then I would tend to somewhat agree, although I don't feel like someone should have a bad report because they've reported a post older than x amount. There's not any rules that say you shouldn't report posts which were posting x amount of days, months or years ago. So, its kind of a conflicting opinion in my eyes. Possibly, what I might do in the future is remove replies which have been reported on active topics only. In other scenarios where the thread has been dead for a long time, possibly mark the report as good, and message the user who reported it saying its not necessary, but I've marked it as good this time. However, if the user keeps on reporting that post, and another moderator deals with it they could game the system to get a report badge, and I'm not sure if that's even an issue to worry about.

I honestly don't know the best way of going about this, and I imagine there's a few moderators that do it differently. However, it certainly hasn't gone against you, and you can look back at my replies, and I'll have some insubstantial posts especially when I was new to the forum. I've had posts deleted before, and have even deleted some myself because I thought they were low quality on second look. Don't worry, us moderators don't have a section where we note down all the reports we've handled, and put a red mark against users

You did your job and I am not complaining about it at all. I had two reasons to create this topic:

1. I was curious to know the reasons given when reported.
2. Should a (some) very old post (posts) worth reporting unless it contains harmful contents like malware to download or phishing link etc (obviously both offense are ban worthy)

And while we discuss about these two points the other stuffs comes as side dish like possibility of ban for too many deleted posts by mods etc.

The answer for my question #1 is very straight forward which you and hilariousandco (^ post) confirmed and it's reasonable, and I am not complaining for any of it.

For the send one, obviously we will find mods will have different views and glad to know hilariousandco's (again ^) view about it. I agree with them here (bold emphasized):
Or we both (Jet cash and me):-P

Conspirator will always find a topic for them to stay busy :-D

They were essentially reported as unsubstantial. As for older reports on unsubstantial posts etc I tend to leave them alone but obviously not every mod will. I think it's not really necessary to report them either but people are free to report whatever they wish.


It would be if you had a chipmixer signature.

I gave you 5 merits for trying to introduce some humour into the forum.

Please note - this award is not part of a conspiracy.

Why it would be a harm for a user?
Can't see anything valid to be considered as harmful.

Anyways, back when I was eager to reach the 300 Good Reports, I was also doing that kind of reports, in our local their are much threads that has been long gone (left blank) and with that I was able to reach my good number of reports. Though it was just to clean our board, so I can't seem to find any reasons on why it should be staying on that place especially if it doesn't have any important info to be used.

So more likely if you'll gonna end up continuously receiving those messages because of your deleted posts I think there's nothing to be worried about.

When cleaning a Board/Section, old posts such that will be likely be on the lists that has to be deleted. Besides blank threads shouldn't stay IMO.

There you have it @Royse777, nothing can seems to be harmful unless it was a major offense against the rules.

There have been some successful appeals, mostly replacing a permanent ban with a temp ban + signature ban if the user was considered a positive contributor to the forum.

I don't think any appeal has been approved if the plagiarism has been already proven. Moderators are very strict on plagiarism. Even if a user has plagiarized some years ago, the ban will be permanent and the appeal won't be accepted.

Yeah, I deleted a few of your replies because I agreed that they were unsubstantial. Not sure if I handled all of them or only some of them. However, some of your replies were deleted because they quoted replies which were unsubstantial too. Its not too big of an issue, and sometimes we do get reports on old reports. Unless, its a serious offense you're normally alright. I do often wonder how users report messages from a few years ago when the topic hasn't been active since then. However, it the grand scheme of things its not likely to go against you.

Mods review each reported post one by one and the delete it on a case to case basis, the only way you will get banned if the post reported from you is plagiarized. You piling up deleted post on your end won't be something bad as there is no strike system I have heard of that once you hit this certain number of deleted post then you will get banned from the forum, there is no unwritten rule about that. The mods will also see that the post being deleted on your account are old posts and which in 2016 I think you are still a newbie and mods are aware that most high ranking members now have improved on the quality on how they post as compared to the days when they are just a newbie. It's similar on some successfully appealed permaban users get their appeals approved since the plagiarized post they made was posted when they were just newbies.

That's why I feel this is more of a coincidence rather than someone or group of persons conspiring against you or others.
A user could come across one of your posts that he feels should be removed and then go ahead to search for more and maybe find a whole lot and end up reporting them.
But I doubt that a user would simply just single out another user and make it a habit of reporting their posts,(except it's posts from a renowned spammer or troll),due to conspiracy or any other alike theory,

I wouldn't report a post that was that old, even if it was the worst shitpost in the world.  If it made it that long without getting deleted, it's probably best just to leave it alone--not to mention that old posts lose their relevance as time goes on.

As far as the conspiracy theory goes, it's certainly possible that someone could be reporting a lot of your posts out of spite.  I would think that a moderator would catch this, especially if the majority of reports are bad--and if that's the case, the result shouldn't end with posts getting nuked.

Have you seen how much time and effort members like cryptohunter (and all of his alts) put into ranting & raving?  If so, it shouldn't surprise you that a member or members would take the time to sift through someone's posts looking for ones to report.  Now I'm not saying that CH is involved in this, but you get my point.  There are a lot of anal retentive, OCD-type members on this forum who spend a lot of time researching things and whatnot.

I can't vouch for every individual reporter but I think you're wrong. Recently theymos is doing more stuff via software (like the merit system or the bumping change) to control spam, rather than throwing more moderators at it, so I don't think that potential career path is much of a motivation for reporting.

Badges might motivate some users, which could be a good thing if they ever get implemented. One wouldn't get a badge for bad reports anyway and there is no lack of actual shitposts, so I doubt there would be too much of an issue with people reporting something they shouldn't. But we do need more reporters, even they report just a few posts... more coverage in every corner of the forum.


Case in point... just hit "Report to moderator" when you see garbage, what's the worst that can happen

I am all for deleting a post that is containing malware or risky contents even if it was the very very old post but for plagiarism, or any other soft offense like shit post (my case technically it's was a sarcastic posts) and stuffs those are from five years back or even a year back - I will say keep them unhandled to discourage the reporters.

Sometime reporters finds this motivation that by reporting and increasing their good report number they may find some benefit in future like forum mod hence they keep looking for reasons to report a post where the post can be fit as genuine one in the topic. By the way, this is how I am thinking - the reality could be totally different and I could be very wrong.

Good to have your voice here bud and learning about the unhandled reports. May I know the reasons given for the posts, obviously if it's possible by the moderation rule. It's just a curiosity.

And what is your view about handling reported posts back from long ago except it has malware or harmful contents and risky for the users?

I think the blame goes to the reporter for taking such unethical advantages of reporting option. If mod can spot such actions then they can warn those users not to abuse it.

I can confirm. I have also been targeted this way heavily in the past, and banned as a result. Of course the reports I made were almost completely ignored.  More recently this hasn't been an issue, but a very large percentage of my reports still stay permanently unhandled.

A conspiracy is all this is. You're not going to be banned for having a handful of posts deleted and it's likely nobody has it in for you and is just reporting random old bumps or unsubstantial posts of yours. You have a few in the queue reported as unsubstantial so that's probably why.

If mods are not too busy perhaps it's not a big deal to handle those old reports although I do remember hilarious mentioning a few times that a flood of low-value post reports interferes with the handling of more urgent ones.


I would consider reporting old plagiarism fair game (or malware etc but those are typically handled contemporaneously). Old shitposts is kinda a waste of time for everyone involved.

The only guy I can think of is THE game-protect LOL but I am not accusing him without having any evidence. I know he has allergy against me :-P

These five and all was yesterday.

Tons of accounts were just banned recently for plagiarism found in very old posts so their is definitely precedent. Accounts getting banned from old posts linking adresses to prove ban evasion are also frequent..
Also as you mentioned, if you piss someone off sometimes they will dig your post history for any dirt they can find to use against you..
It happens.. It's probably happened to me too..

It seems to me that the general community considers this sort of post digging to be fair game so keep that in mind..
Did you piss off anyone good recently? About how many old posts did you have deleted total?

I still do similar type of sarcastic shitposts :-P
My concern was having 5 posts deleted in a single day, if I regularly get this number (more or less) then it may harm a user.

I am very well aware about it. Again not complaining at all.

May be mod can do something about it. Leaving unhandled will discourage the reporter not to repeat the same. Thoughts?

Everyday I see tons LOL
I am just not comfortable in reporting or I could make a good number in reporting :-P

It's kind of a shitpost but you won't get banned for that.

There is also a possibility that sometimes your post gets deleted because a post you replied to got deleted (the whole tree of quotes is removed).

Having said that, going back to 2014 to report low-value posts seems a bit pointless. There is enough shitposting within the last year or two to keep an army of reporters and moderators busy.