Question

Suggestion to Mods and Admins...
I would like to suggest all authorities to hire more mods for seperate sections only so that catching trollers spammers and anusers can be easily caught and corrected what do u think as more moderators r offline nowadays

Answer 1

Mods do not grow on tree's my friend.

Answer 2

and most of them r busy most of the time

Answer 3

If they did, we would have chaos

Answer 4

They are doing their best and I don't think that we need more mods *currently*

Answer 5

i knw miss preeta can observe some ppl and choose sectional mods

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SECTIONAL have only power in tht section

Answer 7

Humans are unpredictable, especially internet ones, it's not easy....

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yjeir main aim is to lookout for spammers abusers etc in tht section

Answer 9

Its only a suggestioon dont take it serious guyz

Answer 10

They also have their family and jobs for which their hired. Group Mods existed earlier but now there is no requirement of group mods .

New Batch of Ambis has just been announced and I think, these ambis may be asked to take care of particular groups/sections though they will not have any power but still they will be the reliable ones to inform mods about any thing wrong going on in a particular group.

Answer 11

but wht if most of th mods r offline at tht time also

Answer 12

In that case, community suspension works. If a limited no. of users report a user then the user will be automatically suspended for a particular time period.

Answer 13

As a group of users like 5-6 (min.) can not be wrong (99%) , so community suspension works well.

Answer 14

Also , it may be like the mods are not online at that time but if you just report the guilty one then the mods will automatically get the mail about this report and they may come online like a SUPERMAN! :P

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i knw all mods r supermans TATDATATATa

Answer 16

no but still having sectional mods might increase security

Answer 17

for os wht do u think @Destinymasha

Answer 18

Oh! Annas, he was a very good friend of mine. You can report this to the mods and mods will do whatever seems suitable at that situation. Thanks for your concern for OpenStudy!

Keep Suggestions coming but slowly ... :D

Answer 19

I honestly think OS is fine --trolls and spammers are.....ummmm.....inevitable --they are doing their best :} [mods]

Answer 20

wht do u think @thomaster

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the opinion can be negative or positive guyz it s just a suggestion from my side

Answer 22

I don't think we need any more mods. The mods we have do a great job. And this is OpenStudy, not some high-security prison.

Answer 23

mhmm......I agree :}

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i knw the mods r doin the best.ive experienced it.but when mods r not online u cannot always depend on community to report.as most of them r wid trollers

Answer 25

like 70% of the activity on OS is in the math group.
What if you assign a group mod in biology, (s)he can only delete/close questions and delete chat comments and questions answers. If these group mods spot spammers in another section they can't do anything about that. So if there were group mods assigned, they should be able to moderate all sections. Group mods cannot warn/suspend of IP check users.

I think this would be a good idea to test with the new ambassador program in the future. It has already been suggested before by the way. Also special chat moderators have been suggested.

Answer 26

the first time i joined i thought os ws more of a fight site than a study site as when i looked into all chats it was like full FIGHTS

Answer 27

i go wid sir @thomaster

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ya even i thought of chat mods but then i thought every 1 would curse me 4 suggestin it

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as they woulkd be monitored

Answer 30

@Preetha miss what do you think

Answer 31

No the amount of moderators are good enough, nearly all the trolls here are non-creative. Rather they should simply automate the system of catching these trolls, instead of changing a swear word to be censored if the swear word is said enough times the troll account should get an auto ban.

Automation is the best choice for OpenStudy. Automate it all.

Answer 32

the current mods are doing their best!! maybe they take sometime to respond to some complaints because they get a lot of reports daily....and even though u increase the no of mods...they cant just be looking for trollers everywhere....they are also here to help people and would mostly do that first!

Answer 33

no automation is not good......even the innovent might be put into ban

Answer 34

they they odnt have to look for trollers every where like hw sir thomaster said they can introduce chat mods for each subject and my opinion was sectional subject mods as they will monitor only those subjects specifically

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@beccaboo333 to day i handed over one troller to mods

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even though he was my best frnd i handed him over to mods

Answer 37

@e.mccormick i did wht u told i switched of router nad turned it on.hes gone.

Answer 38

It wouldn't matter, what if those mods didn't come on for a week? That section would go crazy. It's better the way it is. We do our best in the OpenStudy community to keep trolling and wrongful behavior from happening. All the mods get the same abuse reports, most are handled. Very well actually.

If you'd like trolling and so on to stop, I'd recommend you learn the rules of OpenStudy inside and out. Do your part in helping us keep OpenStudy the way it's meant to be. Even basic users have say to us all.

Moderators are constantly flooded with false reports, real reports, spammers, and actually helping users. They volunteer for this position (after being asked of course). They do ultimately try their best every single day for us. Moderators being as busy as they are on here, do have outside lives. So appreciate what's been done so far.

As for us Ambassadors, we basically are the welcoming committee. But we can also help influence the rules on others. Ambassadors can be seen frequently in the chats also trying to help keep them in order. It's never an easy process for anyone.

As for this post, we really do not need to have more moderators added in sections. The sections are different every single day for people's use. One day it could be trolls in just English, then another day have them all be in say History. This is why we have OpenStudy the way it is.

Also, that's good you reported it. Trolling/Misusing is never allowed on here. Thank you for doing that.

Answer 39

adding more trusted users as mods would help os when other experienced mods are offline...like now itself to report tht troller i was serachin for a mod no 1 was there atlast only @e.mccormic mod helped me out

Answer 40

They tried sectional mods. Did not work.

We need some new tools, but it takes time to get those developed and they focus mostly on trying to get the stability better.

Answer 41

no they could keep chat mods ........in chat only trollers come and troll

Answer 42

There would be no point in having a chat moderator. What if none came on for weeks at a time? The chat would be way to out of control.

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Actually, I suggested they give Ambassadors the ability to do 15 min and 1 hour chat bans.

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no way thts impossible.cuz even me being an average user op

Answer 45

opens openstudy after 1 hour each

Answer 46

I'm sorry, what?

Answer 47

i am an avergae user but still i open os after each and every hour

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wait brb in 5 min

Answer 49

Many users do, but there still is no need for sectional moderators or chat moderators.

Answer 50

What we have has been working well. I do feel like that giving ambassadors those abilities will help out too.

Answer 51

okay im closing this post

Answer 52

That's back stabbing @factor just to let you know!
I say stuff to my friends and never abuse anyone!
More over I am old user of OS and alot more familiar with it's rules and regulations.
I remove comments but just for your info mods and ambis can see deleted chat history.
Secondly I dont even know you! so try avoiding back stabbing it'll be better for a friendly environment and if I do wrong kindly report me. If a mod finds me guilty they will act accordingly. So avoid back stabbing and let the mods do their job. I think they are doing pretty good with their jobs.

Answer 53

i knw dat ijust mentioned u as a example.....never told ur one spammer

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and im really srry anna

Answer 55

I suggested (some) ambi's as chat mods a long time ago, I still think it's a good idea. They should be able to delete chat messages, kick people from the chat and issue chat mutes (so people can't use the chat for some time).

Also global group mods would work. Just like group mod but for every section. Only difference between a real mod is that they can't issue suspensions or warnings. Only kick, mute, delete & close/bump/edit questions.

That way we can create some sort of pecking order, like
\(\Large \bf\color{#FF22FF}{admin}
\\\Large \color{#872af0}{super\ moderator}\ \normalsize (like\ the\ current\ mods)
\\\Large \color{#0099FF}{moderator}\ \normalsize (global\ group\ mods)
\\\Large \color{#872af0}{ Ⓜ\ }ambi\ mod \ \normalsize (ambi\ +\ chat\ mod)
\\\Large \color{#872af0}{Ⓐ\ }ambassador\)

Answer 56

@thomaster Well hopefully now that we have someone to implement these things they can actually get done.... along with these... *pulls out to-do book* all 314 pages worth!

Answer 57

okay so you will be introducin group mods

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pls how do i delte tis post

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@thomaster hw do i delte my own post

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You cannot delete your own post. Only moderators can. If they feel it is necessary.

Answer 61

Thomaster, you have really got some awesome ideas. I really appreciate them.