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- Everything should pipe through the report system, and acting upon reports should be as effortless as possible. In fact, the member that reports a PM/user/post/topic should be able to actually act on it themselves. Like, the report should show up as "KittyGiggle wants to [Nuke] this user" with the attached message "Obvious spambot". A moderator reads it and just clicks "Confirm [Nuke]". 
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Oh yes! Every fucking forum software should have this feature. Report needs a "Suggestioned action" dropdown in addition to the text box, where sensible people can just say "Ban" or "Move to [properly populated forum name]" and so forth, making it simple for a moderator to click a button and move on. Being an admin on other forums in the past, it's amazing how quickly the browser tabs increase when doing a simple moderation task.

[quote=Mahz]- The mod kit should empower people to help the community, not shackle them into a customer service position and drape them in awkward political anguish where they suddenly have to openly moderate their own friends. It just feels lame when last week you were trolling a topic with your buddies and now you have to get "Um okay guys stop it it's not right" like a prat. Ideally when someone submits a report, it becomes a rendezvous channel between the reporter and the moderators. Except it'd be better if the user only sees "Moderator 1" and "Moderator 2" rather than real usernames.
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Nice touch. 

[quote=Mahz]- Roleplays should be self-contained ecosystems if they want to be. Within them, they should have their own little serfdoms where little knights can stick their own topics and create their own tabs and moderate their own serfs. I haven't even begun to ponder how that would actually work particularly from a UI angle, but it's what I mean when I say that users should be able to manage their own going-ons.
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This makes me smile. It's something similar to how I had tried to set up the one RP I lead in oldGuild utilizing the vBulletin Groups feature to have more 'private' (maybe secluded is a better word?) topics that wouldn't spam the regular forums. 

I'm in support of anything and everything here. Bravo for this ambition, I only hope to see it become reality someday.