Scammers were banned, but took too long

That's the issue here Skele, you can't be the only one to do it. Obviously it's not the most exciting thing to do, but come on, it's your jobs as mods. At least try to tackle a couple when you're on..

 

I just think, that the threads just need to be replied to at least once; saying that the situation is currently being looked into. Its when their threads get no replies from anyone, for days on end, that they get frustrated and then they start to feel like that they're being ignored.

 

If a report takes 2 hours to complete, get two mods to do it, so it only takes 1 hour. The more people working on the reports together, the quicker they'll be done. If you're looking into a scam report, and post what you think and why, and another mod comes along to look at it, they can take into account what you posted.

Firez, I don't think it would be overstepping your bounds to investigate scam reports and post a summary/probability that it was a scammer with reasoning.

Then when the global looks at it, they could take into account what you already researched and it would surely speed the process along.

In my opinion, all mods should CONTRIBUTE to scam reports, and then just leave globals to the bannings/final decisions.

 

I do try to not overstep my bounds. Yes I do a little more then the average OT mod but I have the time (at work mainly) to do and learn new things.

I am in that forum everyday and keep studying what Skele is posting so I can learn what to do in certain situations. Scam reports aren't something you just totally go ballistic on when starting.

I did and banned my first person from a scam report for scamming earlier today. I like to think of myself in a supporting role in that forum. I take out the "easier" reports, such as vaders, imposters, self vouchers, chat logs etc etc

I just at this time do not feel completely comfortable doing each scammer report by myself. If forced to I could do them, but I'd rather sit back and learn for the time being. Scam reports are something you grow into, not something learned overnight.

And on a final note, 35% or more of the reports are completely nothing but a waste of time and come nowhere near following the stickys. I have started infracting for wasting staff time for people who post nothing but a wall of chat logs or just make wild accusations with absolutely no proof.

 

Is there any reason why a sectional can't review scammer reports and formulate a list of people to be banned? Just give them perms to post in the section so they know when they've had it taken care of.

 

If they get banned eventually (like within 2 days) that's enough to satisfy me. We cannot expect moderators to be our salves.

 

As a former admin of a css server and forum, I think that I know why not much staff are responding to these scammer reports...

A lot of the time, insufficient proof is provided.
Maybe the post was not written in the correct format, or you have to take time to piece together evidence to make things make sense. Like a few have stated above, this can take hours

The staff obviously have better things to do, there are many other reports or spam posts to be taken care of.

I'm saying that if people just wrote their reports in the correct formats with absolutely conclusive proof and made it easier for the staff, these reports would be taken care of a lot more quickly.

Yes, that's the problem.
A lot of you are assholes; you write your reports like shit and expect staff to take care of them within 5 minutes.

It's YOU, not the staff

 

Great Response and the ending, priceless

 

Seriously bro? These people work hours a day, and don't forget they don't get paid for it. I'd recon scamming reports isn't the sunny side of the job. I myself had made a scammer report when I got scammed in my first trade on Sythe, and I didn't provide correct screenshots. Skele had been replying every single time what I had to change. Eventually they had what they needed and they banned the one that scammed me. If they wanted to deal with the reports quickly, they would have just closed my thread down.

Props to both Spyike and Skele for their hard work on Sythe. They make a magnificent team together.

 

In response to your "they don't get paid for it", you're correct, but technically they do. They can use their trust (any you'd have to be politically correct to say moderators don't have the normal trust above an average user) for use in MMing, and MM from a trusted user (a moderator, possibly) would cost more than a non-moderator, per se.

 

I don't think people like Skele and Spyike should have to do 90% of the reports. I know some other mods get some vaders and all but really only two of them are really taking out the scammers. I'm not suggestion more mods but I am suggesting that they make the mods work on the reports better. Another thing would be make the users who post the reports get their report correct. If they aren't using the correct format it is a waste of the mod's time.

 

I'd like to see more globals to.
Or they should make a Individual rank for it.

 

That comes with the responsibility of being a mod, but they have lives just as we do, and you DO KNOW there going to get to them eventually so there is no need to sweat it.

 

Regardless of their private lives, they were given a job and like with all jobs comes responsibility's; if you don't have time to support your own tasks, then why accept the promotion? There's ton's of members here on Sythe, that don't have any lives at all outside of sythe, that would make fine moderators; such as rsaccounttrader, etc.

 

What with your 4 posts and 0 vouch's?

OT;

You have put a very biased poll to chose from. Instead of 'No it's fine, scammers will be dealt with later' or w.e it is. You should've put No, Reports get dealt with quickly.

You think how many reports get put in daily, how many mods/administrators there are.. what do you expect? Don't get scammed, its as simple as that. The mods have enough wanings stickied around the forums. If an MSN gets hacked they global it ffs what more do you want.

 

I didn't put "No, Reports get dealt with quickly" because that's not true. Don't get scammed? Yes, we try as hard as we could. And I try to prevent other members from getting scammed by reporting the scammer, which I know a lot more people can't be bothered to.

 

Ok well no one will really care what i say because barely any posts, but is it really that hard to look up who your trading with? Whenever I trade, I will look them up. If the person has a ban report against them, wait for it to be resolved but, if you decide not to and get scammed don't go flaming mods for tardiness. If you do, your being (excuse the language) a huge cock.

 

editps sorry never saw that