What is exactly the functionality of "Report to moderator"?

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Quote from: suchmoon on September 17, 2020, 07:13:30 AM

Quote from: hosseinimr93 on September 17, 2020, 04:33:07 AM

So, that report has been marked as bad due to being duplicate.

That would make sense. It's interesting though that the post was flagged as bad but not deleted at first.

Uhm...prior seeing this I could swear it wasn't a duplicate... Very interesting. It was my mistake then. Thanks for finding this out, hosseinimr93!

Quote from: hilariousandco on September 17, 2020, 04:56:08 AM

Either way I wouldn't worry about one report.

It seems it was my mistake after all, although I still don't realize how this was possible. But I'll follow your suggestion and not worry too much about it.

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Quote from: hosseinimr93 on September 17, 2020, 04:33:07 AM

So, that report has been marked as bad due to being duplicate.

That would make sense. It's interesting though that the post was flagged as bad but not deleted at first.

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Quote from: GazetaBitcoin on September 16, 2020, 01:21:54 AM

However, the bad one appears also with strikethrough font and, very interesting, it has also been deleted. Is it possible that the mod which analyzed this particular post by mistake flagged it as bad instead of good, considering that the post was deleted after the report and that it appears now with strikethrough font Huh

If a post is handled then the report cannot be changed after that other than by an admin, so one mod could mark it as handled or bad and another mod could then remove the post but the originally handling of it won't change. It's possible a mod made a mistake or maybe even the user removed that post (probably less likely though). Either way I wouldn't worry about one report.

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Quote from: suchmoon on September 16, 2020, 07:46:55 PM

Is it in modlog? Maybe the user deleted it.

That's not the case.
I just checked modlog and found out why that report was marked as bad.

The post in question had been made in this topic.
According to Loyce.club, Excimer had made two posts in that topic. (Look at the image below.)

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And both of them have been deleted by moderators. (Look at the image below).

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Given the image posted by GazetaBitcoin, he had reported at least three posts made by Excimer in that topic.
So, that report has been marked as bad due to being duplicate.

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Quote from: GazetaBitcoin on September 16, 2020, 02:08:16 AM

Yesterday the post wasn't deleted yet (it didn't appear with strikethrough), but it was flagged as bad and I could access it. Meanwhile it was deleted, but the flag remained set to "bad".

Is it in modlog? Maybe the user deleted it.

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Quote from: GazetaBitcoin on September 16, 2020, 02:52:07 AM

Oh well, if the mod which analyzed this report of mine sees these posts, maybe he will change the status of that particular post. Let's hope for the best

Thank you all for sharing your opinions again.

Only Adminstrators can change report statuses. Could have been a mis-click, or perhaps another mod visited that thread later and decided to remove the post.

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Quote from: Rikafip on September 16, 2020, 02:21:31 AM

To be honest, I wanted to ask about that before, but then somehow I forgot.

Actually I asked that too, a few posts upper than this one

Apparently, in that case of mine, as hosseinimr93 observed, the reported topics got locked by mods.

Besides, I observed also another instance when posts are flagged as good but they are not deleted: this also seems to happen when the respective user gets banned. I reported many users which got banned and they reported posts were flagged as good, but got never deleted. Perhaps it was work in vain, since the users were already banned.

And yes, I also observed cases when the users don't get banned, the reported posts are flagged as good but still don't get deleted -- but these cases were rare though.

Quote from: hosseinimr93 on September 16, 2020, 02:31:11 AM

As stated by Rikafip, it can be a human error as well.

Oh well, if the mod which analyzed this report of mine sees these posts, maybe he will change the status of that particular post. Let's hope for the best

Thank you all for sharing your opinions again.

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Quote from: GazetaBitcoin on September 16, 2020, 01:21:54 AM

Does anyone have any idea how this can happen?

This has happened to my reports many times.
I guess that a moderator marked your report as bad and didn't delete the post. After a short time, that post was reported by another user and this time was deleted.

As stated by Rikafip, it can be a human error as well.

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Quote from: GazetaBitcoin on September 16, 2020, 02:08:16 AM

Yesterday the post wasn't deleted yet (it didn't appear with strikethrough), but it was flagged as bad and I could access it. Meanwhile it was deleted, but the flag remained set to "bad".

Seems the moderator has changed her mind and deleted that post today but forget to mark as good.

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Quote from: GazetaBitcoin on September 16, 2020, 01:21:54 AM

Does anyone have any idea how this can happen?

Is it possible that the mod which analyzed this particular post by mistake flagged it as bad instead of good, considering that the post was deleted after the report and that it appears now with strikethrough font Huh

I've seen things like that happening in my report history too. Sometimes it was the opposite thing, report was marked good, but post not deleted. To be honest, I wanted to ask about that before, but then somehow I forgot. Eventually I stopped noticing those little "glitches" or whatever you want to call them.

I think that you might be right that it's simply a mistake. Afaik, posts are deleted manually so I wouldn't be surprised if mods make a mistake once in a while, marking reports wrong or not deleting posts that they planned to delete. Especially considering the amount of reports they review each day.

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No, all the posts from that topic are included in this screenshot. And all the posts are different...that's why I was wondering how that could happen. Actually, the screenshot contains all the reports I made for this user.

Yesterday the post wasn't deleted yet (it didn't appear with strikethrough), but it was flagged as bad and I could access it. Meanwhile it was deleted, but the flag remained set to "bad".

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Quote from: GazetaBitcoin on September 16, 2020, 01:21:54 AM

Does anyone have any idea how this can happen?

Maybe you had already reported before, I mean you did twice.

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Does anyone have any idea how this can happen?

As you can see, I reported some (of the ridicule) posts of Excimer. All but one have been marked as good. Several of them were from the topic flag @suchmoon / proof that suchmoon is a Chinese communist that trolls users, including the one flagged as bad. All the good reports are already deleted and the aqppear now with strikethrough font.

However, the bad one appears also with strikethrough font and, very interesting, it has also been deleted. Is it possible that the mod which analyzed this particular post by mistake flagged it as bad instead of good, considering that the post was deleted after the report and that it appears now with strikethrough font Huh

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I understand now. Thank you again for your kind explanation. Most likely, the same happened with these topic reported by me.

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Quote from: GazetaBitcoin on August 12, 2020, 02:46:17 AM

Oh, I see. Thank you very much for the clarification, hosseinimr93. It sounds reasonable. But how can you know that the respective topics were closed by a moderator and not by the OP? Is there any way to actually see who locked a topic? I am not aware of such possibility.

It's not possible to find out whether the topic has been locked by a moderator or by the poster. But since your reports are marked as good and those topics are now locked, that's likely the case.
That has happened to my reports many times when reporting mega-spam threads and also reporting duplicate topics while there are discussions on both of topics.

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Oh, I see. Thank you very much for the clarification, hosseinimr93. It sounds reasonable. But how can you know that the respective topics were closed by a moderator and not by the OP? Is there any way to actually see who locked a topic? I am not aware of such possibility.

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Quote from: GazetaBitcoin on August 12, 2020, 01:42:47 AM

The moderator who handled those reports decided to lock topics instead of removing them. That's why your reports were marked as good but post were not deleted. Good doesn't always mean delete.
Most likely, that's because some other users have joined the discussions.

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I come back on this thread, as I have a few good reports which were flagged as good 16 days ago but still, the posts of the respective users are not deleted. Only one of them was deleted so far.

I thought that maybe the mod which analyzed the respective reports (and flagged them as good) forgot to also delete them and thus, if he would see this post, maybe the posts will be deleted. Also, soon (in about 2 weeks from now on) these posts will disappear from my post history (as only the posts from the past 30 days are visible in the report history) and if they won't be deleted by then, maybe I would report them again, forgetting that I already reported them and this time they would be flagged as bad for being duplicates.

Can any mod take a look, please? Thank you.

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There ya go, o_e_l_e_o puts it in better English than I ever could. The issue with being Welsh is you speak Wenglish rather that English. I think my assumption was correct judging on o_e_l_e_o response too. It makes sense in my head anyway, as for a report to be marked good or bad it needs to be at least handled. If its disappeared from the report queue due to expiring then it won't technically be handled even if the post itself was deleted down the line.

Most unhandled reports would have at least been seen by a staff member though. I'd say its pretty rare for a report to go missed these days unless its in a section where there's no dedicated moderator, and especially so if its a local section. Sometimes the best way of handling a report is leaving it unhandled. Its neither good nor bad, and this can vary widely depending on the staff member reviewing it.

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Quote from: Welsh on May 22, 2020, 04:24:37 AM

As far as I can remember (I haven't looked at that page in a long while) it only shows reports up to 30 days. I might be wrong on that exact number, but it doesn't show your entire history of reports.

30 days is correct.

Quote from: hosseinimr93 on May 22, 2020, 05:17:38 AM

Assuming unhandled reports are removed after a certain time, number of my unhandled reports should be zero. But it's 9.

They aren't removed. Reports which have disappeared from the reporting queue but are still unhandled will remain unhandled forever, and will always show up in your individual statistics. Even if the post in question gets deleted in the future, or even if you report the same post a second time and the second report is acted upon, the status of your original report (which is no longer visible to the mods) won't change and it will still show up as unhandled in your statistics.

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