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Originally posted by Chris Boulton
Okay..
1. Don't bother asking or questioning if you will become a mod. It' pointless and we'll just say no.
2. We only really need 1 maybe 2 more moderators.
3. Don't make out like it is a problem with staffing either.We have a more than adequate moderation team already and we can cope with anything. It is the members who need to get their act together.
4. The main problems I was talking about in regards to reported posts are some times spam, easily dealt with. Alot of it these days are things like "flaming" "being disrespectful" and things like that. A new moderator won't help solve that.
I had more points, but I forgot them 
Ah fishy, the forgetful one
. My attitude towards people asking for anything is: "Ask and you shall not get." (this is mainly in resposne to people asking for moderator positions or anything of that nature). Adopt it guys, it's rather effective.
Well, like I said - more staff would help, but isn't necessarily needed. What is needed is for the members to grow up and stop spamming. After browsing these forums for the past few days, what I've noticed is that we've already got a great community. With threads about how to talk to girls and people asking for support (not Messenger related), it's quite evident that this community is doing just fine. It's the help aspect of it all and how organised the forums are that matters. With spam in most topics, it's hard to provide help as most people usually only help in topics that haven't been answered. And with the growing amount of spam, incorrect support and incomplete support, this technique proves to be no longer effective. It's not easy helping on these forums when you are limited by the amount of time you can spend providing support. In the summer for most, that's a completely different story. But why should helping just step up in the summer? Why can't it be all-year round? If you're thinking it can't, then you're wrong. All we need to do is work towards improving the quality of help on these forums, together, as a community.
But as others have put it, most notably Menthix, talking only does so little. We need to stop talking about this problem and actual start doing something about it.
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