I'm happy to answer any and all questions you have about Mamapedia. I believe in transparency. So, let's start:
1. There is only one moderator, me. It is part of my job. I do get paid to moderate, however, it is a small part of a larger job. Believe me, I'm not complaining about a thing, I love what I do. It's just frustrating sometimes because all the limitations you feel about the Mamapedia system, I feel, too.
2. When you report a post, it goes into an internal system. I do NOT get alerted to reported posts via email or otherwise. I have to set aside time to go into the system and go through the reports, and emails (lots of SPAM emails), and EVERY question, one by one. BUT if multiple people report the same questions/ answer... it DOES alert me that something is surely amiss. If it's reported by only ONE user, I have to factor in things like personal grievances, troll behavior etc. to determine if the content really needs to be removed.
3. I am a reasonable person. I have no grievances on this site. I really do appreciate all you regulars, and believe it or not, have gotten to know a few of you by reading your posts. I never comment, nor do I ever post personal questions of my own.
4. You can friend me on this site. If you send me a private message through this account, I DO get it in email form and I can address it more promptly. If you send an email to ____@____.com... it goes into the same system, and I will not get it until I check the system.
5. I stopped sending those stock reply emails for a specific reason. It was because email servers started marking repetitive emails as SPAM and automatically filtering out the emails from reaching your inbox. I made the decision to stop, so that when I needed to REALLY send an email, that it wasn't flagged as SPAM by email providers like google, Yahoo! and Hotmail.
I hope this helps. Please, feel free to "friend" me and send me private messages. I will get them faster. Some of you have already done this, and I truly appreciate it.
Sincerely,
MMP Moderator
****** Let me add here that you don't *have* to be my friend to contact me. I'm just saying that if you want your reported issues to get a higher priority (since I get email alerts to PMs here, and NOT when they are reported through the system) that you are welcome to "friend" me here. I do not have any sort of favoritism over the people I'm "friends" with vs. people who report through the system.