I feel the same. The mods are doing a superior job. My site isn't working and KuBi is currently helping me with this problem. It's a big responsibility the mods have taken up, and I haven't seen any signs of serious flaws. Of course with as many topics there are, the mods are only human and can't control EVERY LITTLE POST, but I know they do their best .

This is the most heavily moderated forum I've ever used and to be honest, it's taken me a little while to get used to (I'm more used to open slather type forums where you can say/post anything you like) but I wouldn't say the mods are doing a bad job. If there are too many posts ending up in the wrong forums then that's cos I think there are too many forums/subforums combinations. Seems to me there's quite a few that are unnecessary.

Can we transfer our credits/hosting over to Astahost? Cos from the sound of things, I'd probably be more suited to posting there but I don't really want to have to start again and lose my hosting cos I've already got a site up & running.

Hey mods work very hard here at t17 I know I once was one. They may not always know what the admin will suprise but they do there job. Now I know not all mods are super but one that I have heard alot of good news about is Buffalo Help. I remember back to when t17 was much simplier and less hecktic. Also when you could edit your post. The script that was installed on the forum has its flaws and not everybody likes it, but it does help. As for Tyssen I am not sure if you can or not you might want to post it in a support forum. But you could just backup all your files and upload them to astahost servers, and you going to get about the same people now since astahost and t17 are almost the same company and the mods are almost the same too.

Thanks
Eric Drinkard

In my opinion mods are doing very well. I think it´s extremely difficult to control all the board... there are lots of subforums and people posting in the wrong place, etc. But this doesn´t seem to be a problem with moderators. I see warnings, closed posts and they hardly show any prepotence in their work.

They are very kind, indeed.

And we have to keep in mind that they aren´t given anything for keeping this working.

I'm not 100% sure on this, but due to the fact that I'm still fairly new to the forums, I believe most of the Moderators are doing a pretty good job with consideration for human error/need.

There are probably so many moderators from all around the world, so not all of them are online at the same time, sometimes none are on at all I'm sure. For those that are around, that I've witnessed, they are active within the forums themselves, helpful, and try keeping people out of trouble and organizing the forums as best they can. I know from experience that moderating/administrating a forum is quite a job indeed.

I would have to say that the Moderators of Trap17 are doing the best they can with what they can. It also helps if other members of the forum, especially those that have been around for a while, also help out by any means they can appropriately, not being a moderator themselves they are limited in what they can do. But in a worse case scenario they can at least report it to the moderators so they can take care of whatever the problem is.

Moderators are only human, we still live lifes of our own. We're expected to do a lot, and we do our best. You may not think a moderator is helping you by closing your topic, but they are. If an admin were to see it, they might just delete it and you'd lose credits and get in trouble. So I think it's safe to say us moderators(though I've only been one for a week or 2) are out to help everyone when they make mistakes.

You can go from a regular person to a moderator, that doesn't change YOU, it just changes your status and responsibility.

Exactly. We still talk the same. We still joke around, but we just have to help other people more than normal members.