Originally posted by Dusty
Are you saying you're just going to leave them? Sorry, but what you need are more moderators that actually moderate, not some excuse that allows you to just not do anything.
That's your take of it, and I don't agree with your conclusion. Trust me, we're not looking for an excuse to do nothing...
We will definately continue to moderate the general forum.
Most other forums have less moderators than we do. Sure we can add one more or maybe two, but it really would not change anything. I don't think the people participating here are looking for the dictatorship type of moderation...
Most other forums also do not count posts made to it's general forum.
It's easy for you to say which threads and posts should be removed in post-increase abuses, but from experience very often it's not that easy at all. Since those posts are often disguised as something else and honest posts sometimes look like post-increase abuse. This irritates people who think someone is spamming. Especially in the general forum, where every topic is allowed.
For instance, now there are a lot of posts in this forum since the change that could easily be taken as post-count abuse if we did not know that it infact is not.
Again, I think this is worth a try and so far it's been good. People are still visiting this part of the forum. I haven't seen any increase of post-count abuse in the other forums. And I haven't seen anyone accuse someone of post-count spamming in this forum...