I used to work on that queue all the time. I double-check almost all of them, yes, but some need more attention than others.


And where exactly did I say it was? We verify that the report has been handled correctly, close and generally get the final say... I do it sometimes too. What I meant by mini-modding is sending notifications to users in place of moderator warnings... I think I saw something like that once but I don't remember it well. I can't really think of any other ways to mini-mod the queue.

Is there any type of situation that I consistently handle wrong? What should I change about my approach?

That's my point. I tag the user who handled the report telling him how it should've been handled, or refer him to a forum thread where he can find some answers. Explaining things can be time-consuming but definitely useful, as opposed to having to deal with the same mistakes over and over again.

@tahu: That's not what I meant. I said I'd double check, but wouldn't necessarily handle things differently.

I wasn't getting defensive there, sorry if it appeared that way. I'm just genuinely curious if there's anything in particular I haven't handled very well.

Well as it's up to us to close the report and verify that the resolver has done their job properly, I wouldn't say it's mini-modding either (although who are we to define it)... I think you even sent one of those tags to me once.

Storm of the Light's Bane appears to be making the report queue very easy for everyone else... only 6 in the queue right now! I think it's the lowest I've ever seen it. It's always nice to have some recognition occasionally, so keep up the great work! It would look even better if there weren't so many unclosed resolved reports... but that's if anyone feels like closing them.

And the resolved queue has been cleared! Absolutely excellent work, PaganiusI!

It was dating back 'till mid-2017. I just couldn't resist Also there isn't much left to do since you got the regular reports fully under your control
Thanks to you for clearing out the reports I wasn't quite sure about.

Damn good work, you two. There's nothing more motivating for a humble mid-tier user like myself to work on reports than having them close quickly. Or maybe that's just me autistically checking for followup to everything.

I've been working on the Assigned queue sporadically over the last few months, clearing or helping clear like 40 old forgotten reports and mostly avoiding stepping on toes while doing so. So that's my minor involvement in the clean-up effort. Yay. Go me. I'd continue but I guess two goofs is too many? Because my ability to reassign mods' and knights' reports seems to have been revoked. Or maybe this is a change affecting everyone below knights?

Wow... just wow. I'm a bit surprised when woke up this morning (local time) and saw nothing left in the resolved queue. Absolutely good work. Cheers!

It's not just you, it's a change affecting everyone. I am a knight, and I can reassign other knights' reports, but not mods'. It's the same on my second account with zero points. I know you had good intentions, but you shouldn't have changed the report assigned to Derigin - yes, mods do often assign reports then later forget them, but in that report there was clearly a lot of research and work needed. He only assigned himself to the report a month before you changed the status, and one month is far too short for assuming he's forgotten the report. Perhaps he was in communication with the artists and waiting for information... we don't know.

As for reports that actually have been forgotten, the mods probably prefer to receive polite reminders than have their reports unassigned or closed... I can only guess by this change. Previously, many reports had been forgotten and we weren't checking that queue as much as we should've been, which is why many lasted years. You can still help though - just let me know if you see a likely forgotten report, then I will look and notify the mod if I agree.

Good to see you here, J__Ason. I thought Dia had banned you from the forum. Don't seem to be sure or remember why, though. If you feel like doing some work, feel free to go through my assigned reports. Set those which are stagnating to resolved and I'll close them later, or ask the band members for input via Facebook. I'm quite regressive when it comes to social media. I trust you with them. Don't feel obliged, though.

Cheers! Yeah, I said a thing that was meant to be taken as banter but came across too harsh to be taken as such, and I guess that was one time too many of me being an immature shit so I got permabanned. I was allowed to make an alternate account (the original is just J_Ason, one underscore) so I can post here for sitework-related things. Not sure if I'm allowed in the other forums though...

I'll take a look at those reports.

I see.

Most appreciated, J__Ason.

With the report queue consistently in the single digits, what are we supposed to do with reports lacking sufficient sources? Surely a lot more than 4 sourceless reports are submitted on a daily basis. I don't think I saw many in the assigned queue either. Do we just outright close them now? There used to be hundreds of reports floating idly in the queue with nothing but a reporter and a higher ranked user asking for a source... what happened to them?

I often close those reports and leave a comment telling the reporter to flag a new report with a valid source.

Hi guys, just want to add this. For me, I do the same what Storm does, mark those reports as resolved and tell them to flag a new report with a valid source. Unless there is some clue worth to make a further investigation.

If nobody minds, can someone take care of the report queue for me this week? I'd highly appreciate it, as I'm not going to have access to a computer for the rest of the week. Thanks.

Don't worry about it young man.

I have no clue as to what to do in this situation. Someone was credited as "M" for doing lyrics on track #3 and there are thousands of artists listed as "M" and to avoid duplicated entries I asked the person who made the report to provide me any info about this person such as bands he plays in or played for, real name or anything that could possibly lead me to him if he's already listed on here but he said even if he is it's probably under a different name so I thought of just adding the info on the additional notes instead of making a new profile and add him to the line up. so anybody has any idea as to what I should do?

https://www.metal-archives.com/report/view/id/674646

Just add a new artist. There's nothing wrong with that. We can always merge duplicates once there's official proof that two artist profiles are in fact the same person.

should the word "than" be capitalized in a title? I've seen countless of album/song titles with "than" either capitalized and lowercase. I've seen websites that says it should be capitalized and others says it does not.

Just a question about how the report system exactly works when it comes to communication. I know I don't receive a notification when a report I submitted has been dealt with and it seems I only get notified that someone has replied to it when this is through the 'Mod has requested input from User' function. Am I correct in assuming that users who submitted a report or any user/mod who is assigned to a report do not receive any notifications when someone adds a new comment, unless it's a mod requesting input?

EDIT: Sorry, I realise I should probably have posted this in the site-related questions thread. My bad.

That's correct. The input request feature is entirely optional and only available to staff and Metal knights.

The report queue is currently sitting at 896, a backlog I haven't seen since before Diamhea made the queue his domain. Anyone with some free time, feel free to join me in wading through the muck.

Anyone who speaks Swedish that might be able to verify the proof on this report?