In light of Taro leaving and a few of the last posts in this thread calling for more to be done, I thought I'd do a quick tally of moderated posts from some of the users here. My choice of users is entirely unscientific. It's based on who I could recall having seen having had their posts moderated, but since I don't read all threads I may very well have left out some users who are frequently moderated.

I went through the past 30 days worth of posts for 10 users that came to mind, and in order of number of moderated posts, this is what I found:

#1 - 54 moderated posts (49 if "Quoting Personal Attack" posts aren't counted)
#2 - 16 moderated posts (13 if "Quoting Personal Attack" posts aren't counted)
#3 - 14 moderated posts (10 if "Quoting Personal Attack" posts aren't counted)
#4 - 8 moderated posts (5 if "Quoting Personal Attack" posts aren't counted)
#5 - 8 moderated posts (4 if "Quoting Personal Attack" posts aren't counted)
#6 - 5 moderated posts
#7 - 5 moderated posts
#8 - 4 moderated posts
#9 - 3 moderated posts
#10 - 1 moderated post

Like I said, this is entirely unscientific and is probably not the top 10 offenders, but the results are still striking.

For the number one offender to have had 1.8 posts moderated per day for the past 30 days and still be allowed to post... it's unfathomable to me. In any other forum I have participated in, and there's plenty, that person would have long since been perma-banned.

And for the number two and three offenders, with a post moderated more or less every other day, they too would be long gone. Best case scenario, they would have had lengthy temp-bans. But probably perma-bans.

For number four and five it's not quite as bad, having had 8 posts each moderated. That's still quite high, but not perma-ban worthy. Depending on the circumstances, something which I paid zero attention to, they may either deserve no other punishment, or a short-term temp-ban.

Six and onwards I don't think is much to talk about.

All this is obviously in my opinion, but I think these stats provide some food for thought.

KM

edited to add: Updated counts of the top five to show what the result would be if "Quoting Personal Attack" posts were not included.

Quoting Astrakan:

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For the number one offender to have had 1.8 posts moderated per day for the past 30 days and still be allowed to post... it's unfathomable to me. In any other forum I have participated in, and there's plenty, that person would have long since been perma-banned.

And for the number two and three offenders, with a post moderated more or less every other day, they too would be long gone. Best case scenario, they would have had lengthy temp-bans. But probably perma-bans.

Completely agreed, especially since the Moderators aren't moderating all too often.

Quoting Vittra:

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I'm willing to bet that most of the #2-#10 on your list were towards the #1 as well. And people try to attribute to that as people picking on the #1 but it's not like #1 hasn't put themselves in that position.

Point is this: Take #1 away and I'd wager that the number of posts having to be moderated would be slim to none.

I know this will come to a shock to a few of you, but I'm only number 4/5 on there (and, in my defense, 3 were from quoting a personal attack, so you can't even count those).

That said, Vittra is spot on. I would have zero warnings if #1 wasn't on my a$$ from day one.

Quoting Alien Redrum:

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That said, Vittra is spot on. I would have zero warnings if #1 wasn't on my a$$ from day one.

Quoting Astrakan:

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In light of Taro leaving and a few of the last posts in this thread calling for more to be done, I thought I'd do a quick tally of moderated posts from some of the users here. My choice of users is entirely unscientific. It's based on who I could recall having seen having had their posts moderated, but since I don't read all threads I may very well have left out some users who are frequently moderated.

I went through the past 30 days worth of posts for 10 users that came to mind, and in order of number of moderated posts, this is what I found:

#1 - 54 moderated posts
#2 - 16 moderated posts
#3 - 14 moderated posts
#4 - 8 moderated posts
#5 - 8 moderated posts
#6 - 5 moderated posts
#7 - 5 moderated posts
#8 - 4 moderated posts
#9 - 3 moderated posts
#10 - 1 moderated post

Like I said, this is entirely unscientific and is probably not the top 10 offenders, but the results are still striking.

For the number one offender to have had 1.8 posts moderated per day for the past 30 days and still be allowed to post... it's unfathomable to me. In any other forum I have participated in, and there's plenty, that person would have long since been perma-banned.

And for the number two and three offenders, with a post moderated more or less every other day, they too would be long gone. Best case scenario, they would have had lengthy temp-bans. But probably perma-bans.

For number four and five it's not quite as bad, having had 8 posts each moderated. That's still quite high, but not perma-ban worthy. Depending on the circumstances, something which I paid zero attention to, they may either deserve no other punishment, or a short-term temp-ban.

Six and onwards I don't think is much to talk about.

All this is obviously in my opinion, but I think these stats provide some food for thought.

KM

An interesting read but it would be fairer if you only included posts that were moderated due to that specific user not because they quoted a post that was moderated.

Thanks!

Quoting m.cellophane:

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I'm very troubled by Taro's report that he was banned. I went back and looked at the posts of the #1 moderated user. That user has posted every calendar day in the past 30 days. That to me indicates no banning for that user (unless they were for a few hours while he was sleeping or something  ). Yet Taro was banned in the same period, and certainly not for anything worse or even approaching the level of the #1 moderated user.

I'm stunned and disgusted.

+1

Quoting Astrakan:

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Six and onwards I don't think is much to talk about.

I'm the #10 and your right there are nothing to talk about
Of course we can't count the post who vanish mysteriously, happen with some of mine in the past but I ain't sure if the moderator continue to do this...