Is there a way to add another alert reason for posting untrue information?

[highplainsdem]

39. I'm sorry. I hadn't realized it had become that nightmarish a situation for you, Skinner and the mods.

I'd never heard of a moderating situation as bad as this:

Hundreds of alerts were sent every day, and every single one had to be discussed by a team of moderators who needed reach a consensus on each decision. A vast number of posts were deleted every day. Threads were locked constantly because too much fighting was taking place in the replies. As you note, we even had a moderator function that would delete entire sub-threads in one click. We had some members who would get fifty posts deleted in a week, let alone five in 90 days.

I'd've probably banned members getting anywhere near that number of posts deleted in a week, after giving them a warning first. And I was used to mods being able to act without needing to discuss something with others, to hide or lock or edit posts (the posts always showing the editing info), or sometimes move them to another forum if posted in the wrong forum (not possible here with different numbering systems in each forum, though it would be really helpful for posts locked in LBN), etc. Any discussions in the mod forum were usually about really serious matters such as whether a member might have to be banned, though I'd make unilateral decisions as admin in the most egregious, urgent cases. And there was no separate MIRT, but any newcomers who were obvious trolls were booted immediately (by me when I was the admin) as soon as we became aware of them. There could also be discussions in the moderators forum over a member being unhappy with a moderating decision, though that didn't happen often.

Anyway, I would have found it impossible to cope with the situation you described, too.

I didn't reply to your message right away last night because I was trying to think of a way to combine the advantages of both juries and moderators, but I couldn't think of any.

And none of us want you to suffer burnout.

Again, I'm sorry.