Topic: Monthly Report Statistics (Read 2928 times)

Yeah, and also some moderators came to the conclusion that they now spend less time on the forum, because the number of reports has drastically decreased, and they have nothing to do.

I'm sure that many moderators are not at all averse to processing old reports and getting rid of various garbage. Now reporting on this forum is not associated with finding low-quality posts, but with discussions about finding meaning.

But no one will suffer if these posts disappear. It is worth discussing the meaning or meaninglessness of something only if it concerns everyone. If some activity is strictly voluntary, then why these arguments about whether it makes sense or not? Personally, you or the forum will get worse from the fact that someone has committed low-value actions (in your opinion), and sent 1000 reports to old posts? I believe that 100 deleted reports from 2020 are a million times more useful for this forum than 100 empty discussions about what is valuable and what is not, what makes sense and what does not. Empty talk.

Now we see that no one else directs any energy anywhere. Nobody cares about these reports.

Period Dec 16 - Jan 15. In this period, 1664 reports handled as good, 116 handled as bad, 144 unhandled.

Period Nov 16 - Dec 16. In this period, 1943 reports handled as good, 87 handled as bad, 209 unhandled.

Period Oct 17 - Nov 16. In this period, 2377 reports handled as good, 92 handled as bad, 181 unhandled.

Period Sep 17 - Oct 17. In this period, 2017 reports handled as good, 86 handled as bad, 111 unhandled.

Period Aug 18 - Sep 17. In this period, 2205 reports handled as good, 53 handled as bad, 145 unhandled.

Period Jul 19 - Aug 18. In this period, 2107 reports handled as good, 103 handled as bad, 182 unhandled.

Period Jun 19 - Jul 19. In this period, 2232 reports handled as good, 71 handled as bad, 79 unhandled.

Period May 20 - Jun 19. In this period, 1543 reports handled as good, 82 handled as bad, 133 unhandled.

For me, the most demotivating thing when it comes to reporting is if the offending user isn't properly dealt with. Therefore I now add more and more shitposters or chatbot plagiarism spammers to Ignore. That means I only report them once, and if they aren't banned, I don't waste my time on them anymore.

Reading her post again, might be that I misunderstood her concerns.


I might be wrong here, but I really think that people who deserve the report post badge (those very few with a large amount of reports) would have no issues dealing with some heat from an ocassional shitposter who would be triggered enough go against anypne with a badge so I don't think that would be a problem either.

They can pull there guns , we are always ready to fight them and there is nothing to fear.
With or without a reporter badged let them come and if they think they are treated wrong they can complain to the Moderators.
If they are spamming , shitposters or anything that should be reported just report it , the community will be on your side.

Your reply is true but personally, I think Sarah Azhari implied about negative attitude towards forum members with reporter badges in general.

Spammers, shit posters might not know who report their posts but when they lose their minds, they might pull their gun towards reporter-badged members. It is vague fear from Sarah but it is understandable. Hate reporters or not, they don't have many things to do against reporters.

I'm only going to speak for myself, but if you report an old post in the Fr section, I will probably handle it. If you report 10-20-100 old posts in important/interesting topics, I will probably handle them so that these topics are rid of parasite posts. But if you report 10-20-100 old posts in topics that have fallen into the abyss, I will send you a PM to ask you to stop, it's useless, nobody is going to read or reread these topics. And I'd feel like I am stealing Theymos

You seem to keep forgetting that someone actually has to manually handle those reports, they are not automatically deleted. So its not only about those few who report old posts.

With that being said, maybe forum staff concluded that moderators energy should be more focused at reports that affect members (and therefore forum) more, which are of those recently written posts instead spending a lot of their time going through thousands of reports each month that affect forum members very little, if anything.  


Hence small incentive like report badge or something along those lines. Don't get me wrong, I personally don't care about the badges at all but I am pretty certain that would make people report way more so why not. Only problem is that chances of that happening are slim to none but who knows, stranger things have happened.

Slippery slope.


Forum won't become a worse place by deleting 3 years old posts, but I don't think it will become noticeably better either. At least not enough that its worth it to deal with those. After all, I don't think that only important metric is number of deleted posts, but also where and when those posts are written as well, but unfortunately that's info that we don't have access to.

In my opinion, 1 report of a post written today by a signature campaign shitposter is worth more than 100 reports of old bumps and similar shitposts written 3 years ago by some low rank shitposter or paid thread bumper. And that's why I like this new change, because those who like to report can actually focus their energy on something that affects this forum much more.


Introducing badges would make people report more recently produced garbage (that's simply how things work as people like these kind of things) which in the end would make this forum much better place than removing posts written years ago. Keep in mind that you are still free to report old posts and they will get deleted unless you report it for one of the trivial reasons.

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Reports are anonymous, no one except forum staff knows who reported which post.

The reported post decreased for each month, Maybe the reporter have a busy, or maybe the psychological condition is the same as the Bitcoin price


Is the member who has a reporter badge will be accused and will be hated?

because who knows, the member whose post was deleted, getting not paid because of not enough weekly post quota, and they accused members who have reporter badges.

And, I don't know why Administrator didn't update the statistic or top reporter  again. it's been 2 years I can't see the update, maybe a post like that will make the reporter excited again to continue again his activity. (Because of human nature),  there is a sense of pride if their name exists on the list.

Thats for sure not much reports for one month and a little bit scary of that numbers and what we got the month before and all.
Maybe its also because that the spring and nearly summertime has started in a lot of countries and people dont spend that much time on the Forum.
I can say that i daily making some reports and whenever i see something i hit the report to moderator button.

Yep, there's not a whole lot of incentive for most people to spend their time doing it. It's also one of those things that feels like "someone else" will pick up the slack, so it's not a big deal if you don't participate.

I recently tried to dedicate more of my time to reporting, and I had my first experience with one of my reports being marked as "bad". That's cool, an opportunity to learn I guess (I like LoyceV's perspective on "bad" reports). But I was just getting started (only 197 reports) so I didn't have access to the view that would allow me to see which one it was. All I could do from my end was go through my local record of reports (I keep a text file) and then follow up on each of them (i.e. see which ones were handled and which ones weren't), to try to determine which one was "bad".

I picked a small handful that I thought would be likely candidates, and I was pretty disappointed by what I found. For example, one of the reports was to do with a string of 6 posts, and the mod that handled it only merged the last two posts for some reason (by no logic that I could ascertain, each of them was short and only separated by a few minutes). Another was someone that posted the same thing twice in a row, except that the second post included an additional question, and the mod deleted the longer of the two posts.

Maybe I'm super unlucky, but finding two cases like that after only checking ~10 of my reports doesn't exactly inspire confidence, you know? (That the mods are performing their duties with due care, that is.)

Now that I'm aware that there's a non-negligible chance that my future reports will be quickly skimmed and then mishandled, I'm struggling to find the motivation to keep doing it...

I don't think I'll pick it up again (I can't abide by sloppy moderation), but on a brighter note, if there's ever a consensus on how to motivate people to get into reporting (i.e. reporter badges, or something similar), then I'll happily donate the dev time required to implement it (I think reporter badges based on some variant of the "rMerit/rPoints" idea will end up working out quite nicely; some of my thoughts on that are here, and here).