There seems to be a lot nowadays that the admins are not looking into that they probably should. There is a fairly decent amount of admin related work that cannot be automated.
We probably need at least one more active admin to be honest. Essential things just aren't getting looked into. It's pointless even banning people at this point when they can and do just evade their ban on their 2/20/200 alt accounts and nobody ever looks into them. It's also unacceptable that people are waiting several months and even indefinitely in some cases to have their accounts restored even with a signed message already verified by others.
One problem is that theymos needs people who can be broadly trusted because admins can potentially do a lot of damage that would be difficult to undue.
One potential solution would be to give a small number of people
real-only access to certain information that admins are usually able to access, and then handle the research necessary to do things like password resets so that an admin can have the necessary information to make a decision presented in a way that is easy/quick to verify.
I am also unsure how comfortable cyrus is at publicly saying that
x is an alt of
y. This is generally more complex than simply looking at IP addresses. From what I can tell, theymos doesn't really like doing this either, however BadBear was rather good at this, and was generally accurate in his research.
I believe theymos recently said that he is the only one handling the coding behind the forum so he might have been busy with that recently.
Where did he say this?
November 29, 2017, 08:07:39 PM GMT
[...]with me as the only sysadmin and current-software developer[...]