About Moderation

[otatop]

@anon59375068

Spidercrab mentioned a cooling off period in his recent post in the admin thread though.

I think that’s more because spidercrab doesn’t want to do any “real” admin or mod type stuff (he’s an admin just as a backup and to do a few tasks) and so he may have asked goofyballer to think about it for a while before going through with it but I’m purely speculating.

@MrJbroRisen

That was 2019? Wondering why then there was pushback on other people that requested deletions since then?

I covered this in the thread about deleting accounts

@otatop

Since we’ve had a couple of people request deletion of all posts and accounts, I thought I’d pop in to mention that it’s an enormous pain in the ass and in most cases literally impossible for moderators to do, so any deletion requests should be directed to an admin.

Goreo was seemingly able to just click the “delete all posts” button and everything worked fine, when I did it it would fail after deleting 50ish posts and I’d have to reclick it, so the only time I deleted someone’s account I had to write a script to click the delete posts button and leave it running all night.

Site settings were also modified so that mods can only delete all posts if the poster has 15 or fewer so now account deletion involves an admin changing a handful of settings to allow it to happen at all.