Well firstly to the people who told Tripleplay he wouldn't be able to post, you didn't do your homework:
Member Profile for Tripleplay
Total Posts: 126 (5.60 posts per day)
He was also GT-Unit with another 113 posts and 2 weeks membership before that.
Anyway, at the time of writing, there are 42,582 threads on GTP. That's a huge figure. I know moderators can't be everywhere at once, but I'm curious just how many moderators we have. To deal with 29,684 members and 1,134,680 posts, I'd want a lot. I'm not advocating every second member be an moderator, but I since I don't know just how many mods are out there, I'm curious. One thing I've never understood is people who don't seem to want to be moderators. Maybe I read it wrong but it seemed Der Alta didn't want to be responsible for the GT4 forum, it just fell to him. Now someone else has picked up the burden, well that's good. I've just never been able to understand people who complain about the burdens of the authority they're given. I've seen it numerous times, and I've been an admin for a number of things myself, and I've always found it a great privilege.
In writing this I've stumbled on something curious.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=29951 - A thread started by Solid Lifters I was going to use as an example. It was redundant, and Solid himself acknowledged that and requested it be closed, and it took days to get around to it. That's not exactly a great response time. Someone mentioned people replying to useless threads and subsequently keeping them alive far longer than they otherwise would have. Personally I can no longer access the thread so perhaps action has been taken, which is good, but we wind up with thread after thread where whatever question is posted is answered within the first 2-3 replies, generally in the form of links to another thread already dealing with the topic, but then people go along and talk in the new thread anyway. I'm guilty of it as much as anyone because people simply don't shift to the old discussion so I don't bother either, which is hypocritical and I'm going to stop. In fact the only person I can think of that goes out of his way to revive threads so people can discuss things where they belong is John.
I have a few questions - firstly, do we still have access to some limited administrative options to move or close our own threads? Secondly, why can't we delete our own posts? Not just to weasel out of what we've said but I've wound up posting the same thing as other members because we wrote it simultaneously, or double posting for whatever reason, and you wind up with people having to write "Ignore****" (to meet the 10 character minimum which doesn't do much to cull one word replies to posts). If we can't censor each other we should at least be able to censor ourselves!
Don't take this as me being insolent and unappreciative, I'm just saying if our mods are really so worked covering the hugeness of our forums, then we either need a new system to lessen their load, or new mods to help out. Then they won't have to deal with people like me whining that threads don't get closed the minute they open like the asshole I am.
