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Re: Forum moderation question
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hilariousetc
on 23/04/2019, 12:41:22 UTC
I can assure the community that you will hardly find non constructive posts from me. But still my posts are being reported and I think it's from some selective members who have agenda with me.

I remove the posts I spot and believe to be off topic regardless of if they're reported or not or whether I have issues with certain people. Me and you might not see eye to eye but I don't have an agenda. If I did I wouldn't have argued for you to have been unbanned yesterday which I felt was harsh and unjust, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to remove posts when they're off topic and are an attempt to derail the thread for your own agenda or anyone elses. Post them in the relevant threads or boards like I instructed and there would be no issue.

My question is:
1. Does moderator check the reported post before they remove it?

Of course. Every reported post is evaluated that is either marked as good or bad or left unhandled if nobody can deicide.

2. What if someone target a user and keep reporting the topics not for spamming but for other reasons (may be off topic)

They would be checked like any other. If they were inncaurate then they would either be unhandled or marked as bad if they were incorrectly reported.

3. If a mod delete a post without reporting by anyone then does it also count for the numbers that is associated with banning a user?

There are no strict numbers when taking into consideration bans and it's not usually you've had x amount of posts removed so that deserves a ban but an admin may take the number into consideration in certain cases. Yesterday was a pretty unique situation but as far as I was aware it took into consideration actual reports that had been handled against you, and I think as Loyce said you were probably just unfortunate collateral damage.