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Dong U Dead

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Tuffty said :
Get the tea and cookies I'll get here sooner.

There are times when the F-Mods have to sleep. Jagex have tried to cover all bases with F-Mods and from what I can see very few times were no F-Mods are here. It's usually covered well 99% of the time.

Also FH reports are often left for a F-Mod who knows more about it them others. They are all dealt with though. :P
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15-May-2019 12:23:13

Whodatder 2

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I haven't used these forums for coming up to 10 years. I remember spending hours trawling through these pages back in the day.

I seem to remember there being at least 100 forum moderators back then - now I recognise just three (of which you are one Tuffty - of course).

Hope all is well.

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15-May-2019 13:46:20

Southeaster
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Dong U Dead said :
Tuffty said :
Get the tea and cookies I'll get here sooner.

There are times when the F-Mods have to sleep. Jagex have tried to cover all bases with F-Mods and from what I can see very few times were no F-Mods are here. It's usually covered well 99% of the time.

Also FH reports are often left for a F-Mod who knows more about it them others. They are all dealt with though. :P
All moderators are very experienced...
Disagreed.

Length of service does not equate to experience. If you were a moderator for twelve years, but only logged on once a month for most of these years, you cannot be considered to be experienced. Runescape Forumers Discord Server

15-May-2019 14:12:16 - Last edited on 15-May-2019 14:12:26 by Southeaster

NexOrigin

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Tuffty said :
Get the tea and cookies I'll get here sooner.

There are times when the F-Mods have to sleep. Jagex have tried to cover all bases with F-Mods and from what I can see very few times were no F-Mods are here. It's usually covered well 99% of the time. I think you mathed wrong. It's definatley not 99% of the time, that's for sure.

There's a reason why I specifically mentioned you. It's because I know for a fact that there is a dead spot in FH for a few hours, before you get up in the morning, and your morning routine generally involves clearing up the FH backlog that has gathered during those dead hours.

You do a good of it, and it's a regular routine for you.

But the whole reason that it's part of your morning routine is specifically because of the dead hours that there are no FH moderators checking reports.


This isn't the first time the FH dead hours have been brought up. This issue has been brought up numerous times over the last few years. The dead zone exists. Someone could literally spam the hell out of the forums for about 4 or 5 hours without any FH moderators to deal with the situation. I'm better than you, but that doesn't mean you're not great! :)

15-May-2019 18:38:58 - Last edited on 15-May-2019 18:41:46 by NexOrigin

4ev

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NexOrigin said :
Tuffty said :
Get the tea and cookies I'll get here sooner.

There are times when the F-Mods have to sleep. Jagex have tried to cover all bases with F-Mods and from what I can see very few times were no F-Mods are here. It's usually covered well 99% of the time. I think you mathed wrong. It's definatley not 99% of the time, that's for sure.

There's a reason why I specifically mentioned you. It's because I know for a fact that there is a dead spot in FH for a few hours, before you get up in the morning, and your morning routine generally involves clearing up the FH backlog that has gathered during those dead hours.

You do a good of it, and it's a regular routine for you.

But the whole reason that it's part of your morning routine is specifically because of the dead hours that there are no FH moderators checking reports.


This isn't the first time the FH dead hours have been brought up. This issue has been brought up numerous times over the last few years. The dead zone exists. Someone could literally spam the hell out of the forums for about 4 or 5 hours without any FH moderators to deal with the situation.

I've seen this occur too, but honestly, it is not the fault of the forum moderators, and you can't really expect VOLUNTEERS to go out of their way to fill those gaps. I feel all the people involved are doing a fantastic job. I have differing opinions on how a few things should be handled; but within the guidelines set forth for them by Jagex, they are definitely doing a great job.

Since Jagex is based in the UK, it is obvious their employees are on a certain sleep regiment. Also, the numerous F mods try to do their upmost.

Yes, there's a gap of a few hours, but if one person is cleaning up the mess after that gap, what if that person feels sick or something, there will still be a gap. Gaps are unavoidable. Castle Wars in Theme - A few minor changes to fix cheating
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15-May-2019 19:04:48

NexOrigin

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4ev said :
you can't really expect VOLUNTEERS to go out of their way to fill those gaps Not without a bribe, that's for sure.


4ev said :
Gaps are unavoidable. Of course. It's silly to expect someone to be monitoring FH at all times. There are bound to be gaps. Sometimes it's 5 minutes, sometimes it's 5 hours.

But, there is a very distinct and specific period every single day where you almost guaranteed that no one will be reviewing FH for a few hours.

It's the same dead zone that has been there for years. It has been brought up many times for discussion.

The only real solution is to seek out community members who would make a good addition to the moderation team that are active during that period, and see if they can be recruited.

But, there haven't been any new fmod recruits for quite a few years. I'm better than you, but that doesn't mean you're not great! :)

15-May-2019 19:59:41 - Last edited on 15-May-2019 20:00:14 by NexOrigin

Dong U Dead

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Southeaster said :
Dong U Dead said :
Tuffty said :
Get the tea and cookies I'll get here sooner.

There are times when the F-Mods have to sleep. Jagex have tried to cover all bases with F-Mods and from what I can see very few times were no F-Mods are here. It's usually covered well 99% of the time.

Also FH reports are often left for a F-Mod who knows more about it them others. They are all dealt with though. :P
All moderators are very experienced...
Disagreed.

Length of service does not equate to experience. If you were a moderator for twelve years, but only logged on once a month for most of these years, you cannot be considered to be experienced.
The mods I know and frequent the forums are very experienced and still pick and choose which query to answer.
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15-May-2019 21:34:15

Southeaster
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Dong U Dead said :
Southeaster said :
Dong U Dead said :
Tuffty said :
Get the tea and cookies I'll get here sooner.

There are times when the F-Mods have to sleep. Jagex have tried to cover all bases with F-Mods and from what I can see very few times were no F-Mods are here. It's usually covered well 99% of the time.

Also FH reports are often left for a F-Mod who knows more about it them others. They are all dealt with though. :P
All moderators are very experienced...
Disagreed.

Length of service does not equate to experience. If you were a moderator for twelve years, but only logged on once a month for most of these years, you cannot be considered to be experienced.
The mods I know and frequent the forums are very experienced and still pick and choose which query to answer. Or they choose not to answer any query at all. Runescape Forumers Discord Server

17-May-2019 02:57:05

Tranq
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Remember guys that forum mods aren't "required to help out on forum help" Also nowhere on the forum help thread does it state that we will get to your posts immediately. It was designed for friendly non-emergent modkeeping. Whenever I log in I always check forum help and periodically throughout my foruming day I check back to see if there is anything new that needs a wee bit of help.

As to Tuffty's comments that some posts are left for others that know more about that than others do. Let's say for instance their is a clan dispute on forum help. Let's say I see the report, I have experience with clans I used to run one for a time. I feel comfortable dealing with this post, so I do. Now lets review the same scenario where in this case I know nothing about clans, I don't trust my judgement that I'd know the best way to handle this situation, so I skip the report and move on to reports I do feel comfortable with. Waiting for a different F-mod who has the requisite experience on how best to proceed to deal with the situation. After it's been dealt with I can then return to see how it was dealt with.

We all have niches we all have expertise in certain areas. Like I pay little attention to my pixel wealth. As in I don't care what my rares are valued at as I see an item, not a price tag. After all I'm never going to sell them, so it's a personal value I attach to my items, I don't want to part with them so their gold value is nothing to me as I'm about my items. So would I feel comfortable venturing into item discussion or for that matter the discontinued items marketplace to lay down the law as to what is and isn't proper. Both of these two forums wouldn't respond well to my comments. They'd look for someone that knows them to attempt to be impartial instead of the outsider. Why it's not that they're shopping it's that there is a culture afoot. I wouldn't immediately cotton on to the subtleties that exist there. Where as an another f-mod might.
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17-May-2019 13:15:56

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