We've all seen it. The spam, the flaming, the racism, the accusations, the attention-whoring, the bot-mongering.
We all want it to go away. We want this place to return to what it used to be. I clean, safe place for people who genuinely love playing this game to meet, share stories, ideas, questions, strategies, forge new friendships and expand new horizions.
As a staff, we're doing all we can do. But in case you haven't noticed, the forum population is over 14,000 now. There are more new threads every day than any of us could possibly read. There used to be a time when I personally read and posted in every topic in GD and most of those in OT. There simply aren't enough hours in the day for this now. So naturally things are going to slip by, be missed, or escape notice.
So what can you, the dedicated forum user, do to help us take out the garbage around here? If you see something, say something. DO NOT respond to flame w/ flame, spam w/ spam, hate w/ hate. PM a member of the mod staff. Hell, PM ALL of the mod staff.
The list of active moderators and admins on this site is:
-Ryoko (Admin)
-Key-J (Mod)
-Sin (Mod)
-SuicideGrl (Mod)
(there are a few more on the way, stay tuned for that)
In your PM, make sure you include:
- The user name of the person who posted the message in question
- a link to the page in the thread where the post can be found
- a brief and tactful description of the reason for the report
if you want to include more information, that's fine, but realize that the more you type the more we have to read and the longer it takes for problems to be dealt with.
ONLY Admins can ban users, so don't expect that from Mods, but we have other tools at our disposal. Believe me, we all know who the offenders are, and I for one am through being nice about it. It's time to swing wide w/ the mod stick.
Let's take SRF back. Do your part, don't feed the trolls, don't fan the flames, don't give the attention whores any ammunition. Instead, just click the "PM" button and let us put the trash where the trash belongs.
-SG and the SRF Mod Team







