More forum mods

We're getting close to double digit spam threads with some nearly a week old.

 

We totally need this, I agree. I have been checking the forum daily and I noticed the number of these steadily increasing.

 

I wonder if this post gathered any dev's attention, and if a dev would like to comment on the situation.

 

@Jon @Flaxative?

 

Most / all of the recent spam bots point to the same web page. If the black hat is using the same ip (range) for most / all of the bots, maybe it could be banned from the forums?

 

At the risk of sounding completely and utterly ridiculous [especially to the current moderating staff that are actually around on a regular basis], I feel as though I should say something, here:

I know I'm not exactly full of credibility around here [since I've only been here since June of '15], but, I know that if I ever stopped showing up to my job for 3 months straight without any explanation at all, I wouldn't have a job when I got back. I know that for certain.

I would sincerely suggest that any forum or chat moderator that hasn't logged in AT ALL over the past 3 months needs to be demoted and replaced; Card Hunter isn't exactly low-key, anymore, especially since it let out on Steam [and I don't have to explain the recent Steam debacle, do I?]. CH is also on Facebook and Twitter; both sites that also has their fair shares of lurking troublemakers too bored to do something besides endlessly spam stupid things.

In short, IMO, this forum can't afford to have a touch-and-go moderating staff. It really can't. Anyone that agrees to be a Moderator from here on needs to be expected to do what they agreed to do, and it's impossible to do that if they're not here on at least a semi-regular basis.

.....just saying.

 

I don't know how many forum moderators we have, nor how many are active at the moment. I know some mods have been otherwise occupied recently. In any case, it probably wouldn't hurt to add a few active users even if they are only authorized to dispose of spam.

 

If I could I would propose Sods and Lieutnant Commander Data as mods.

 

I am good at reporting spam because I check the forums frequently.

 

I suspect BM has a massive pile of spam reports by now, and can tell who sent them. It makes me wonder whether I should stop spamming them with spam reports.