Posts written by ZOS staff

Rishikesa108 · April 26

In the Forum , posts written by ZOS staff show up in green.
I suggest that posts written by Moderators only to cut or delete posts that violate the rules are shown in another color, and that the circle that characterizes the thread that received a reply turns into a small triangle, in that case. We leave the little circle and its green color only for the actual responses of ZOS. In this way those looking for significant answers (the few, very few, that there are) can immediately distinguish and do not have to come across countless posts from the moderators every time, all the same and not particularly significant for those looking for answers.

Gandalf_72 · April 26

I agree.
In this way it would be easier to find only those threads in which ZOS gave truly useful and interesting answers.

Necrotech_Master · April 26

most of the "important" zos posts show up in the dev tracker

not sure if the forum software allows them to mark a post as "moderation" or "informative" or if the post color is just tied to the account flag (if its admin or not)

Tenthirty2 · April 27

This would be a nice QoL addition.
Often when looking at a thread that could have a mention of hopeful fix\solution\etc I'll just click the comments from staff ouroboros , but that often just goes to moderator posts. Would be convenient to tell them apart and save a bit of time.

TaSheen · April 27

Well, there's a couple things here. First, the Vanilla forum backend is.... um.... not particularly flexible.

And second, I personally think there's a "back office" reason they choose not to implement this sort of thing - IF it's available.

Grizzbeorn · April 27

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/tracker

Moderation posts are filtered-out.

Varana · April 27

I'm almost certain, though, that the tracker sometimes misses a genuine Dev or CM post. Not very frequently, but it happens (iirc).

That said, the suggestion of separating Dev and moderation posts has been brought up in the past, including in threads where the CMs were active.

(Maybe re-assigning roles and icons needs the forum to go into maintenance, and then suddenly regular users can post as mods, which means they have to shut down the forum immediately, temporarily ban everyone, extend forum maintenance, and do a roll back. After a month, everyone who was banned gets an additional star under their name.)

Rishikesa108 · April 27

Varana wrote: »

(Maybe re-assigning roles and icons needs the forum to go into maintenance, and then suddenly regular users can post as mods, which means they have to shut down the forum immediately, temporarily ban everyone, extend forum maintenance, and do a roll back. After a month, everyone who was banned gets an additional star under their name.)

ROTFL

Gandalf_72 · April 27

Varana wrote: »

I'm almost certain, though, that the tracker sometimes misses a genuine Dev or CM post. Not very frequently, but it happens (iirc).

That said, the suggestion of separating Dev and moderation posts has been brought up in the past, including in threads where the CMs were active.

(Maybe re-assigning roles and icons needs the forum to go into maintenance, and then suddenly regular users can post as mods, which means they have to shut down the forum immediately, temporarily ban everyone, extend forum maintenance, and do a roll back. After a month, everyone who was banned gets an additional star under their name.)

Vulkunne · April 27

Varana wrote: »

I'm almost certain, though, that the tracker sometimes misses a genuine Dev or CM post. Not very frequently, but it happens (iirc).

That said, the suggestion of separating Dev and moderation posts has been brought up in the past, including in threads where the CMs were active.

(Maybe re-assigning roles and icons needs the forum to go into maintenance, and then suddenly regular users can post as mods, which means they have to shut down the forum immediately, temporarily ban everyone, extend forum maintenance, and do a roll back. After a month, everyone who was banned gets an additional star under their name.)

Why not two stars? How 'bout three? It would probably take a couple days though.