Reporting posts in wrong forum

[timo]

According to the message that comes up when you hit the "report post" button, the button is not intended to report posts that were posted in the wrong forum. I don´t know how much posts get reported these days but when I still had access to the reported posts forum it wasn´t too much. In fact I have sometimes used the button for that purpose and not yet gotten any negative feedback because of that. Imho, a lot of threads that should be in Speculations stay in the physics sections quite long, even though people reposonding there explicitely state that it was the wrong forum. What about allowing the report post function to be used to report threads that ended up in the wrong section, too?

Advantages:

- Threads go where they belong more quickly (matter of taste if that´s an advantage or doesn´t really matter).

- Posts consisting of only the "wrong forum"-message become redundant (I personally see this as a bigger advantage than the previous point - those posts can look rather unfriendly).

Disadvantages:

- Dunno if it causes an increased amount of moderation, especially when people get too pedantic about the issue.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

I don't see why not. The message that appears when you report a post is built in to vB - we didn't choose that. It can be changed, though.

[Martin]

Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising messages, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts.

 

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Note: This is PRIMARILY to be used to report spam, advertising messages, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. It can also be used to suggest moving threads which logically belong in a different forum.

[Klaynos]

Sounds like a good plan, I normally wait untill I see a mod on IRC and then bug them

[timo]

*pokes admins* ... so what?

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

I can change the message you get when you report a post.

 

You (as in resident experts) should be able to move threads in the forum of your area of expertise (you should be able to move threads in the Physics forum, for example). Go to Thread Tools at the top right of each thread and you can move it around.

[Klaynos]

I've started to use it for this purpose

[swansont]

I can change the message you get when you report a post.

 

You (as in resident experts) should be able to move threads in the forum of your area of expertise (you should be able to move threads in the Physics forum, for example). Go to Thread Tools at the top right of each thread and you can move it around.

 

I was able to do that with the recent stuff in Severian's "So you've got a new theory" thread. Apparently successfully, even. There's also a little button on the bottom right that lets you do it. Good tool to have.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

I'm hoping to eventually let resident experts also move threads in General Science and Speculations, as well as their own forums.