Valid question but in all honesty there's not much we can do.
I started moderating very recently and there's currently three of us. I believe nearmiss is in the US timezones, while me and Alpha are on the EU timezone.
As for how it works, we are just unpaid volunteers trying to manage the forum in a way that keeps it readable and useful to the majority of the community.
The way it goes is that up top we have the forum administrators, then each sub-forum for each gaming title has its moderators. What we do is try to make sure people stick to a few basic rules and maintain a bit of necessary manners when talking to each other.
We have no professional affiliation with the developer team, which means we are not privy to inside information and we pretty much have a long leash (eg, they don't tell us how to moderate the forums).
In other words, it's simply a form of community service and not a professionally appointed position, so we don't have the necessary information to do what you suggest.
I know this probably wasn't what you wanted to hear, i just prefer to be honest about it: we're ordinary users with a bit more patience and a ban button
08-28-2011, 12:16 PM
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