ATTENTION - RE: Notifying Admins

In recent weeks some of you have been making it a habit of hitting the "Alert a Moderator" button on your own threads and posts, in the hope that someone will look at your thread faster.

THIS IS AN ABUSE OF THIS FEATURE!

The "Notify a Moderator Thread" exists so that you can notify a moderator in case a post violates the Forum Guidelines. It is not there for submitters to alert moderators to their threads, in the hopes of getting a quicker response. My Inbox has been swamped with these emails recently, and so I'm putting everyone on notice.

I speak only for myself, however if I receive an abusive alert from the "Alert a Moderator" feature, like I described above, your thread about your site will be deleted.

Re: ATTENTION all Members!

And I'd add that the same thing applies for the PM feature. Please, do use Private Messages to communicate with Editors, Metas, Moderators, Admins, etc. about stuff that wouldn't be appropriate, useful, or interesting in a public thread: i.e. thankyou messages, alleged abuse details, reports or details an Editor requested in a public thread to be sent PM, requests for status change (whereas there are appropriate threads in the Member's and Editor's Playground for this), Forum access problems, etc. Please note that any on site PMs with Moderators or Administrators related to the Forum policy or actions may be shared among Mods and Admins if we feel it is necessary.

OTOH, anything which is appropriate as per the Forum Guidelines, and would be useful or interesting to the public and other members should be posted in the threads and not sent PM.

This is a Forum whose aim is to provide an additional, unofficial channel of communications between the general public and the editing community, not a private chatroom for submitters to be in private, direct contact with the "higher ups".

The PM feature, too, is therefore not there for submitters to alert Editors/Metas/Mods/Admins to their threads, in the hopes of getting a quicker response or better treatment.