Is it Time?
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Topic: Is it Time?
Posted By: Bizzy
Subject: Is it Time?
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 12:38pm
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Do you think it is time that maybe OHbaby have some moderators.
It is getting bigger every day and the admin staff have much better things to do with their time. there have been a few weird things - like the troll on the 1st birthday thread - that maybe should have been brought to the attention of admin before it got so involved! anyone agree or think i am just being a dill!  ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Hunnybunny
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 12:41pm
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I agree
Some threads get out of hand pretty quickly, it'd be nice to have someone around who could just make them "disappear" or delete the posts and remind people to keep it nice... |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 12:48pm
| I'll sit on the fence for that one. I've been on forums before when there have been moderators and they were lovely people but if they had personal issues with others they would be harder on those people and noticed that certain topics would get over moderated |
Posted By: Mamma2N
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 12:49pm
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I may be going crazy, correct me if I'm wrong - cause I'm sure there is a Moderators group - I noticed a member classed as 'moderators group' the other day
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 12:50pm
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I think there should be, more for the advertising not the closing of topics that should be an admin thing still. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: clover
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 12:54pm
| I don't know, I actually don't think there are any major problems on this site. Apart from the troll the other day which was actually just kind of weird/funny rather than offensive, I don't really see a lot of posts that require moderating. I think we need to remember that just because something isn't as we think it should be it isn't actually wrong. I often see people getting worked up about things on here where in actual fact it is just because it is slightly different to the norm not because it is wrong. I know a lot of older posters want the site to remain how it was, but that just isn't realistic. |
Posted By: tishy
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 12:59pm
Yep I agree! 
Also I think that you should have to login to read any post. But that's just me. Mamma2N, there is an 'admin group' but that just means that the person is an OhBaby employee. The way the admin/moderating is at the moment leaves me thinking that 'Big Brother' is watching. I'd much prefer if moding was more visible. (i.e. instead of deleting a post , the mod just edit it and state why reasons why). |
Posted By: Mamma2N
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 1:03pm
I've just gone and checked - instead of 'Senior member' / 'Admin Group' etc - this member's is 'Moderator Group' 
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tishy wrote:Posted By: tishy
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 1:09pm
Ah ha! http://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7948 - This explains that one! |
Posted By: Mamma2N
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 1:14pm
aha! Thanks Tishy
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Posted By: Raspberryjam
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 1:17pm
Bizzy - I thought this a while a go and you took the micky when I said it, but I completely agree - as I said last time, being the pregnant does not give people the right to be b**chy and the moderators should remind them to be nice (I think I said ladylike which was poo pood) ------------- http://lilypie.com] 
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Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 1:35pm
As a bit of a side note I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't even realise it was a troll at first in the 1st Birthday thread. I just thought there was someone out there really like that 
Moderators: I don't know what I think about that really. I'm a bit torn. Generally things run pretty well here I think. But when they get out of hand they really seem to get out of hand. I would like it if we had another locked level thread though - like a gen sect where you have to have a certain amount of posts. I know this has been vetoed in the past but now that we index so high in Google searches there are a lot of people that get stalked. And yes I know that the internet is a public place etc. etc. but the help and advice you can get here is invaluable and it's sad when people can only PM a select few to get it. -------------  
 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 1:47pm
i agree - which i suppose is why it would be hard to pick people for the job. Mind you if more people selected the "report post" button on posts then maybe we wouldnt need mods. raspberryjam i must have a bad memory i cant remember that - the ladylike thing rings a bell somewhere though. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 1:53pm
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I can't remember the thread but it ended up with Little Britain photos. -------------
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Posted By: Raspberryjam
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 1:56pm
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DH is on some bike forum and those guys are b**chier than a bunch of school girls. They have a thread that is called mindless drivel or something. If your bleeting on about something irrelevant or offensive the thread gets moved to there.
I think so many people have to report it for the moderators to move it which is a good idea as its not just a moderators opinion - but a general concensus Id like to see something like that - I often have to bite my tongue but some people are just nasty and obviously need someone to do it for them ------------- http://lilypie.com]
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 2:04pm
yeah i found it ...
maybe its not more moderators that are needed but rather for more of us to report posts that we find offensive, or nasty or against forum rules.... so i was probably just being a dill - again! ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: GuestGuest
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 2:07pm
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I'm with summerlamb, I thought the troll on the 1st bday thread was funny!
I've never found anything offensive on this site and if posts get out of hand they tend to get reported and deleted by admin anway. |
Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 2:15pm
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Remind me where the 'report posts' button/link thing is again?
ETA: Don't worry found it. I always forget where it is. -------------
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Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 2:35pm
I must be really slow as I missed the troll and when I went back to see what you were talking about it was gone. Mind you I saw some of the posts on that thread and decided to steer clear ------------- Lindsey 
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Posted By: fire_engine
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 2:54pm
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I'ma big fan of the 'report post' button - it allows for things to be flagged to admin even if they're not yet an all out brawl. I''ve done it once when there was a thread that was obviously going to get nasty pretty quickly and other times when it's already nasty. ------------- Mum to two wee boys |
Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 3:12pm
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I must say I dont even know where the report post button is! ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Posted By: jaycee
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 5:01pm
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I did the report post thing the other day for the first time. It was a blatant attack on someone.
The person who wrote the post clearly new the OP IRL and either just joined OB to post something really nasty or made up a new user name to do it. I think I must have seen it just after it happened as there was no other post after the nasty one, so I don't think that the person it was directed at even saw it - at least I hope she didn't .
The thing that I didn't realise was that the whole tread disappeared  . I thought it would just be that post. What I found a bit strange was it vanished and I didn't hear from admin, thought that it would be good to say "yes that was a bad post, thanks for letting us know" or "you are over-reacting, don't be so silly" - just to let me know that they had seen it.
As for the moderator group, I think that being able to flag admin of something nasty is good and for people to do that a bit more if things are getting nasty/personal. As for a closed area, maybe, some of the stalking stuff that has been going on is pretty scary. -------------   
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 5:22pm
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Where is the report post button?
I have seen some blatant posts for advertising, and well if one person isn't allowed to advertise then no-one should be. Simple if someone wants OB'ers to know about their service or product they can go through the normal channels. I'm not bothered too much about individual posts, I don't like swearing or abusive language though. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 5:49pm
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cliandjack it us up next to the date on each individual post... it says posted 22 march.... then IP logged then report post.
i use it for spam ... ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: ?Lolly?
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 5:52pm
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look above your post (under pink bar)
Posted: 22 March 2010 at 5:22pm | IP Logged | Report Post It's a shame people don't moderate themselves a little better. Some people never seem to grow up and it's very sad. ------------- Captain Chaos (5) & the Trouble Monsters (2!) 
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Posted By: kiwisj
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 6:52pm
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jaycee I reported the post you're talking about too and thought it was weird that the whole thread got deleted. A shame as there was some great info for others if it was ever needed too.
I'm another one on the fence with moderators. I think Admin here do a pretty good job of shutting things down when necessary and I have seen Maya/Emma jump in with the "official" line a few times too, when someone asks a specific question regarding the "rules." There certainly isn't much name calling/bad language/blatant spam on here as I've seen on other forums. Having said that, I also visit a couple of expat forums that are so over-moderated that if someone asks for a Ob/Gyn recommendation any response with a name of a doc gets deleted  I'd hate to see that happen here!
With regards to stalking, I would also prefer if people had to log in to view threads but I don't think that would really stop anyone stalking an OB member. I do think that we all need to remember that anything online can come back and bite you. I've stopped posting photos on here and took a lot of info off my profile "just in case" - I would hate my MIL to stumble across a rant about her for example!  ------------- SJ Callum - Dec 2008 Daniel - Oct 2010 |
Posted By: RinTinTin
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 7:51pm
| Oh I reported "that" post too. And was kind of disappointed that the entire thread was deleted as I was actually using it as a reference point for a similar situation. |
Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 22 March 2010 at 9:07pm
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I don't reckon it needs more tbh.. People should just be made aware of the report post button so it can be utilized more. It's not just for spam, it's for anything you want to report and for admin to look at.
Some people get overly excited about becoming a moderator too, so there could be over-moderating happening.. I hate that. |
Posted By: _H_
Date Posted: 23 March 2010 at 9:53am
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I think the moderators on this site are pretty good. i think that if we had more it might take away the freedom. oh and i also think that if we see something we should report the post as they cant be everywhere all the time
the only thing is (if they can) they should just edit the post to say deleted by admin not delete the whole thread but sometimes the whole thread needs to be deleted oh and sorry CJ sometimes when im mad or upset i swear in my posts (only in the charting thread as you ladies know me) ill try not to ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 23 March 2010 at 1:19pm
I nominate AlloAllo for moderator !  ------------- 
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 23 March 2010 at 1:56pm
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I also recall suggesting this awhile ago, I think it's a good idea... as long as if it does happen that the moderators don't abuse their "power"
------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 23 March 2010 at 2:24pm
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Hi all,
Thanks for your feedback . We agree that things on the forums seem to tick along quite nicely most of the time, and when we have a little bump in the road, you're pretty good at letting us know via the 'Report Post' function, or by PM or email.
At this stage, we won't be appointing any further moderators, but rest assured that we make decisions related to the forums, individual threads etc. as a team, so we have that collective objectivity that is often hard for an individual moderator. If you have any questions/feedback etc., do post it here, or PM or email one of the admin team - we always love to hear from our members, as you are what makes our online community so special .
Hugs, Emma -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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