Expected ETA for Moderator review of thread
Aug 14, 2024 | 3:36 pm
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Aug 15, 2024 | 5:11 am
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Just to expand on this: all the moderators here are volunteers. Some have more time than others, but the vast majority fit FT around their full-time jobs.
A thread would normally be locked for review for one or more of several reasons:
(a) there are across the board and ongoing examples of rule breaches where the mod needs to stop the immediate flow in order to perform a clean-up
(b) the thread is becoming heated and a temporary closure is needed to allow things to calm down
(c) based on available information (or sometimes lack thereof) there are doubts about the veracity of an OP's intent or motives. The thread might be closed to show other members that perhaps they should be wary of the contents, and to allow the mod to make further investigations.
You can see that each of these scenarios might well need wildly varying amounts of time to resolve. So alongside time zones and available mod resource we can add complexity of investigation.
Sometimes that review might mean the thread does not get opened again - in which case, although it may appear that the mod has not taken any action, the review will have taken place but by the time it completes it has moved a long way down the forum (in busy forums such as BA it only needs a day) and so there is little point in bumping a thread to put a further explanation in.
Conversely, if it's as simple as deleting some posts and adding some in-thread advice to members then that could be as short as 10 minutes.
A thread would normally be locked for review for one or more of several reasons:
(a) there are across the board and ongoing examples of rule breaches where the mod needs to stop the immediate flow in order to perform a clean-up
(b) the thread is becoming heated and a temporary closure is needed to allow things to calm down
(c) based on available information (or sometimes lack thereof) there are doubts about the veracity of an OP's intent or motives. The thread might be closed to show other members that perhaps they should be wary of the contents, and to allow the mod to make further investigations.
You can see that each of these scenarios might well need wildly varying amounts of time to resolve. So alongside time zones and available mod resource we can add complexity of investigation.
Sometimes that review might mean the thread does not get opened again - in which case, although it may appear that the mod has not taken any action, the review will have taken place but by the time it completes it has moved a long way down the forum (in busy forums such as BA it only needs a day) and so there is little point in bumping a thread to put a further explanation in.
Conversely, if it's as simple as deleting some posts and adding some in-thread advice to members then that could be as short as 10 minutes.
Aug 15, 2024 | 5:30 am
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Formerly known as tireman77
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 7,817
Just to expand on this: all the moderators here are volunteers. Some have more time than others, but the vast majority fit FT around their full-time jobs.
A thread would normally be locked for review for one or more of several reasons:
(a) there are across the board and ongoing examples of rule breaches where the mod needs to stop the immediate flow in order to perform a clean-up
(b) the thread is becoming heated and a temporary closure is needed to allow things to calm down
(c) based on available information (or sometimes lack thereof) there are doubts about the veracity of an OP's intent or motives. The thread might be closed to show other members that perhaps they should be wary of the contents, and to allow the mod to make further investigations.
You can see that each of these scenarios might well need wildly varying amounts of time to resolve. So alongside time zones and available mod resource we can add complexity of investigation.
Sometimes that review might mean the thread does not get opened again - in which case, although it may appear that the mod has not taken any action, the review will have taken place but by the time it completes it has moved a long way down the forum (in busy forums such as BA it only needs a day) and so there is little point in bumping a thread to put a further explanation in.
Conversely, if it's as simple as deleting some posts and adding some in-thread advice to members then that could be as short as 10 minutes.
A thread would normally be locked for review for one or more of several reasons:
(a) there are across the board and ongoing examples of rule breaches where the mod needs to stop the immediate flow in order to perform a clean-up
(b) the thread is becoming heated and a temporary closure is needed to allow things to calm down
(c) based on available information (or sometimes lack thereof) there are doubts about the veracity of an OP's intent or motives. The thread might be closed to show other members that perhaps they should be wary of the contents, and to allow the mod to make further investigations.
You can see that each of these scenarios might well need wildly varying amounts of time to resolve. So alongside time zones and available mod resource we can add complexity of investigation.
Sometimes that review might mean the thread does not get opened again - in which case, although it may appear that the mod has not taken any action, the review will have taken place but by the time it completes it has moved a long way down the forum (in busy forums such as BA it only needs a day) and so there is little point in bumping a thread to put a further explanation in.
Conversely, if it's as simple as deleting some posts and adding some in-thread advice to members then that could be as short as 10 minutes.
I waited several days before posting this question and a few days on with no other feedback since, I can assume the thread will not reopen and thus, inferring from the information in your post, allowed to be buried organically. I guess I was hoping for guidance as to the why, but again, I understand mods are busy with more important things.
No need for anymore follow up. I have already taken up enough of your time and have answers to my question.
Happy flying.