The avatar and signature rules can only be enforced effectively if violations of them are reported. This is because current moderation is not too observant of them.
It's not a matter of enforcing them effectively, it's a matter of being "too stingy of numbers someone came up with off the top of their head". A few pixels or a few kb aren't going to kill someone, and it is definitely not ban worthy.
As for this being because the "current moderation is not too observant of them"; they are very observant, and they see them. However, they understand that sometimes there are
more important things to worry about than someone having a signature that's 16 pixels too tall.
Reports that are made immediately by users near the time of the violation will be sometimes made even with moderators online. This is because moderation in various cases is slow to act on even the most basic of violations. If a user politely mentions etiquette to a new user, that user is reported for rent-a-modding and your issue with reports is the same had the original user just decided to report the issue.
To the first sentence; duh? Moderators cannot see every thread. And if its near the time of violation, its bound to occur. As for the second part. The staff does a good job. They have lives, and sometimes they have more important things to do then sift through every single thread at every moment they're logged on. Most people on this forum leave themselves logged on while they're doing things
in real life. We cannot expect the staff to be here every little second they're logged on.
As for rent-a-modding reports. *looks*. Nope, not a single one. Sorry, that's not the case.
The moderation and administration should be grateful that avatar and signature violations are reported because it will accurately show them how much of a problem it is on the forum itself. I would suggest rather than calling it wrong to report such things that the staff would otherwise not see, the rules for signature and avatar sizes could be amended. In fact, there is a topic in Feedback about it that was not addressed. Also, in regard to avatars specifically, the size limitation could be altered due to the new way in which the profile side bar is set up. This makes the available space for an avatar defaultly greater and less likely to stretch any tables.
The moderation and administration staff is grateful for signature and avatar reports;
if they're reasonable. Again, most of the reports are not. If they're stretching the forum, yes report them. Again, *magic numbers* made up for signature and avatar sizes. They're not law, they're guidelines. I see no problem with something being 32 pixels over the size limit. Which brings me to the next point, the thread in feedback is due to some recent modifications on the board. Has nothing to do with the issue of oversized signatures or avatars. It's a scripting issue.
We're modifying the rules on *everything* on the board, and we'll have them posted when we feel they're ready (more or less waiting for 2.0, but we'll see what happens)
I should also mention that if there is "clutter" in the post report feed. If these topics are easy to solve, then they are easy to solve and are not really problems. Sometimes a post is reported, a moderator does not see the report because they are lurking the boards, that moderator finally arrives to the reported post and then solves it in the topic and then solves the topic in the post report feed without giving a full answer as to how they solved it because they said enough in the topic with the reported post. I find it hard to believe that this is a problem at all though considering the amount of moderators active.
The "clutter" only slows moderators down from getting to the valid reports. Again, most of the staff have lives outside of ZFGC, and are not here every waking moment. They cannot be expected to sift through 100 frivolous reports just to find 1 serious one. Also, its a moderators job to lurk amongst the boards. They find more issues that way then they do from the post report feed currently
simply because of that clutter. You have no clue how many unreported issues I find just lurking. It's depressing to see serious issues out in the boards with no reports, and a crapload of nonserious issues with reports. Also, again *stares at post report feed* Solved ones have an explanation as to why and how they were solved. Although, again, most of the solved reports have posts that consist of "...There is nothing wrong with this at all.".
Oh, and considering that last post spam was a little much in that according the community rules and regulations, spam is not to be tolerated. While it is common sense, I assume that Vandavil was making a sarcastic, valid point.
No it was blatant spam. The only point to be made by that is "I should be warned". Which was the result.
I hate to be an ass about it 4Sword, but honestly, you're far too condescending to the staff; and frankly, you have no clue what goes on anymore behind that curtain. Things have changed. Theres no point in acting like a pharisee, persecuting people for the littlest infractions of the law. Some things just *aren't that big of a deal*, and the staff
will not partake in being overly strict in areas they
should not be just to appease people who make frivolous reports. There are things that call for that sort of action, and things that do not. ZFGC staff has a lot more to worry about than signatures and avatars. In fact, I would have an issue with having a staff that focuses on that as if it were the worst thing in the world. I'd rather they got to fixing the bigger issues on the boards (the amount of rudeness/flaming from users, trolling, etc) than focusing primarily on stupid issues that *do not affect the community as a whole*.
