No Thanks Staff Signs When Handling Reports

When reports are handled, the staff has the option of sending an alert to us; however, the alert is from an anonymous source and doesn't say who handled the report.

I think it'd be useful if staff would sign when handling reports (e.g., "Spam bot banned. Thanks! - @Llave).

"But it doesn't really matter who does the moderation as long as it gets done, right?" Au contraire. While that's partly true, there may be some cases where you'd like to ask a question (like if your report got rejected), and who better to ask than the staff who handled the report?

Thoughts?

 

I don't think that's really necessary, nor easy to enforce. If you need to ask a question about a report you can direct it to whatever staff member(s) are online at the time and they can look at the report for you... not only that but our report reasons are usually fairly concise & not up for debate.

 

Agreed, but sometimes there will be questions (e.g., I reported a necro-bumping post in The Spam Zone, and it was rejected because it added to the thread, despite being a couple years old). Not so much to debate, but just to question something.

Also, I forgot to mention that sometimes I can easily tell who it is -- @Llave, for example, will make his responses funny, but sometimes I can't (e.g., if you or Plums get it, I always think Plums).

 

I don't feel like this is really needed either. Questions about a report could really be directed to anyone on staff. And even if you can't always tell who took care of it, most any of us could give you the reasoning behind a particular action.

 

As long as the job gets done, it doesn't matter who does it. So with that in mind, it also doesn't matter if that information is public or not. Staff do a lot of stuff (I would assume) so to me keeping this the way it is doesn't really hurt anyone. Sure you could say that the information could be made public, but this serves no purpose other than to satisfy your personal curiosity. I'm not saying that is a good or bad thing, for the record.

 

Forcing an individual staffie to own a decision that 1) could cause a lot of grief and 2) may not even have been theirs doesn't seem like it's worth it to me. Staff knows what staff does, so if you really must know then you can ask just about anybody on the rainbow squad.