I have posted a reply to some comments on this forum about ity.im. My post included detailed stats to show why certain publishers were banned from our system. The post said it had to be approved by moderators, that was Friday it is now MONDAY. Can you please approve my posts..........
They are busy, The moderators do their job. If you need their help urgently go to http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showgroups.php
LMAO; Moderators on here??? This place is so full of Scammers and Spammers, it's unbelievable ... I'm a Senior Moderator on another very popular, highly visited Webmaster Forum and we don't tolerate Scammers and Spammers; yet, if you have comments / concerns about a post or poster, we react in less than 24 hours.
Short, This is one of the biggest Internet Marketing forums on the web. You think you can run a forum better? then do it. But the owners and moderators do have social lifes
Ah yes... you take the moral high road when it comes to spam judging from your home page URL: http://azsoftware.biz/ I'm not sure what your definition "very popular/highly visited", but I can only assume you are referring to http://www.devhunters.com/ In 4 1/2 years of them being around, they have received the same number of users, posts and threads that we get in about a week. Let's put this in perspective... Since they opened, they have received roughly 31,000 posts. In that same time period we have received a little more than 14,000,000. If that is a "very popular, highly visited" site, how would you classify this site? My point is that the issues we face are not the same as a small site.
I know that Cheap$eo, so you don't need to talk down to me like I'm a 5-yr old child as I'm most likely far older than you kid ... even with my own social life, I'm still able to moderate and run a very large Forum with only 2 other Moderators. In fact, I remember banning you recently from our Forum due to your sarcastic, smart-mouth ... so, to answer your childish question; yes, I and 2 other Mods do run a forum better.
The issues we face are most definitely not the same issues we faced when we were small. When we were small everyone thought we were crazy for having NO moderators. We didn't add our first moderators until pretty far into our existence (probably somewhere between 500,000th and 1,000,000th post is when we got our first moderator. The truth is we just didn't need them. But as a site gets bigger and more popular, it also draws the spammers/scammers of the Internet simply because we are the biggest site of our nature. If you are going to try to scam or spam people, you gravitate to where the people are. You would be amazed at how much custom code we've had to write to curb it (it's a constant project to build new tools to combat it). But here's some stats for you... 75-100 new accounts are never allowed to post their first post because they are automatically deleted because they MIGHT be spammers. 1.2M posts have been deleted by moderators 100,000 accounts have been deleted Close to 100,000 accounts have been banned Over 350,000 individual infractions have been manually given by moderators/admins So say we do nothing is well... just ignorant.
The moderator approved this topic post but my posts on friday still have not been approved. The post about ity.im is damaging to our site, you need to remove the post or allow us to post a reply. The person that created the post had their account removed for good reason and we can post the stats to prove it. Please approve this account for instant posts without moderator approval, you can see from the signup address that it is support@ity.im and we are not forum spammers. We are only here to reply to posts about ity.im and provide answers to any questions about our network. Thank You, Johnny Brown
"the moderator" approved your post a few hours ago on Tuesday morning (local time) not on Friday. You have to be kidding, right?! Your name is actually Johnny Brown? A real name like "Matthew Hesser" sounds way more credible. Repost your replies and we'll try to review them in a timely manner.
MY name IS Johnny Brown and I am the developer of ity.im, I also for the time being managing accounts. Matthew Hesser is the CEO of the parent company of the ity.im ad network. He has very little to do with day to day operations of ity.im. Majon International has provided funding to insure we are able to pay our "legitimate" publishers that follow the TOS and publisher guidelines. If you dont believe that I am in fact Johnny Brown and that I manage ity.im, you may contact me at: skype:elitephpcoder. I also have a webcam if you are in such disbelief that you need to see a human face. Ity.im is a legit paying website, and the people that created that post are cheaters and they are the scammers, they have massively inflated stats and MASSIVE IP duplication in their click-through stats which I can display publicly since they have called us the scammers when infact they are the ones trying to cheat our network. We DO NOT want to lose any good, legitimate publishers. Why would we want to lose publishers that provide value to advertisers? We would'nt. Ity.im HAS the funding to pay its publishers even when the advertiser revenue stream is low, through its parent company.
My apologies Johnny, I guess I too am a little jaded from sifting through the many fake profiles here. Down in NZ only a child gets called Johnny and while we all know Johnny Depp it still sounds odd to me. Lets get those replies posted so we can approve them
Shawn, TBQH, there are less moderators moderating and more spammers spamming nowadays. If it deems necessary, shouldn't you appoint new mods now? I've got a feeling that some of the mods in the mod list haven't logged back in DP for the past 3 weeks or so. We all know that moderating is a very, I daresay, tedious task and with a big forum like this, you'll have to be more than just watching every post being done just to make everything is A-okay. Then again, I'm pretty sure there's a reason why Shawn hasn't appointed a new mod in the forums. /end .2
And we appreciate the time you take to report problem posts and users. You help point us in the right direction. Then there are users like rogerpeterson24 who are too naive to know not to post spam in a thread that the mods have already posted in and therefore get notifications.
Let me chime in and tell you that you are slower than a snail - lol. I reported a user a while ago and it took you a whole week to ban him while it was obvious he is a scammer.
To be fair there are much worse things than having a moderation crew that wont just pull the trigger immediately on the strength of a report that says something like 'Hey, this guy is a scammer and he bought this account'. It helps to provide documentation with links so nobody has to reinvent the chain that may be not be as immediately apparent as you think. If mods acted on reports that just say ALERT! User A = User B, without taking the time to verify, we'd all lose our login on the strength of fake reports. Nobody dies just because a mod waits until they have a chance to make sure a report is accurate, and if you take the time to make the process easier you have a better chance of getting the desired outcome.
Like robjones says, if things aren't blatantly clear it's better to err on the side of caution on our end. A user can always be banned, deleted or merged in the future, but if someone is reporting a duplicate account, we *can't* undelete or unmerge an account if it ends up being incorrect. If we blindly took user's word on someone being a scammer or duplicate account then people would simply report people they don't like to get them removed from the site. And oftentimes we end up tracking down a TON of additional duplicate accounts that the reporter didn't know about while we are looking into it.
And then there are the guys who report every possible problem in the subforum that they have an interest. Their motivation is to shut down the competition but its a win::win because it cleans up the forum at the same time. The mods learn (at the same time) who is working where.