That idea had come to mind. One of the other things that I felt would be useful out of this MOD is the opposite question: which moderators are not doing anything? By keeping a log of who is doing what, I have a clear indication of which moderators are doing their jobs, and which moderators are not. It is not like each moderator has a quota of activities that they are required to do, but when someone is invited to the moderator team there is a certain level of participation that is expected. Without some sort of moderator log such as will be provided by this feature, that would be difficult to determine.

The Post Notes feature will be going live next week on my largest board, so I will get more feedback very soon. Thanks for your comment!

First of all, I wrote the reporting system for my site last summer, and it had to handle all of the areas of my site, so obviously anyone’s existing MOD wasn’t going to work. The neat thing, is that it logs the report in the database, but it also looks up the moderator of the area who has most recently logged in and sends him a PM. If there are no moderators in the area, then I get the PM.

Now, since only one person gets the PM, you don’t have to worry about lots of moderators potentially all being alerted to one problem. Plus, the PM contains some useful information about the post, picture or whatever was reported, including link and reason and username. Then a moderator or I can either reply back to the PM if the user requested it (idea from phpBB3) or take care of the issue and go on with life.

About your moderator logs, I have the Log Moderator Actions mod installed, but I also wrote some code to send more PMs to users. There was this site I was at the made me incredibly angry because the “staff” would edit or delete my posts without telling me about it. So, what I did is make sure that would never happen on my site.

When a user other than the author deletes a post or topic, the contents of that post are un-BBCode parsed and sent to the poster via automated PM (this is incase he wants to post the message again, such as if the post should not have been deleted). For a topic, it just sends a PM notifying the user of deletion. Both of these PMs tell who was the one who did the action and encourage the user to reply back if there’s been a mistake. Also, when a topic is moved, a PM is sent saying which topic it was, which forum it came from, and where it went.

This way, there is some better “proof” in the form of a PM which is sent to the user, about what is going on with his posted content.

Nice post! As you probably know, i’m not into phpBB2 anymore. I don’t use it for any of my projects, and don’t create any MODs anymore. The support i give is limited, but the same applies to the support requests. So i wouln’t really be using this MOD. I must say, it sounds very promising and interesting. Perhaps you could create a diff of the edited post. phpBB3 offers functions for that. I’d be interested in seing the code of the MOD, personally. In case you don’t release it to public, i’d be glad to be able to see it on a “private” basis, but that’s up to you.

I like the way you try to combine many different things. Well done