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Kelani
@kelani

@kerravon Nicely said up there. Just a FYI, a few of us (myself included) are night owls, and since we’re located on both US coasts, we usually manage to keep an eye on things during those hours when normal people are asleep. :)


@partshade
ABN is a target mostly because we’re a large site. Spammers want to reach the most people, so they look for large forums like this. Additionally, they favor sites which have less-robust spam protection. Our lack of a Report/Flag option is definitely something that would be noticed. I hope something like that can be added.

As far as allowing members to moderate, guess I’m the minority, because I’m a huge fan. I allowed members to moderate on every site I created. Their assistance was an enormous time-saver for the admins. I personally found it was easy to tell which members were right for the job. The trustworthy/helpful ones who have the site’s best interests at heart seem to stand out from the crowd. As long as the rules were clearly defined, and they weren’t given too much power, they did an excellent job. Aside from the rare post which shouldn’t have been moderated, (but could have gone either way), I never had any problems using members in this capacity. Just my 0.02