I was thinking about this more last night, I already put it in a topic, but I figured why not make it its own topic...
So, currently, the mods do a new @moderation whatever tye post for mod stuff. Which is all fine and good....except there's one big problem with how forums work...
Let's say John smith puts up a link to something and the mods edit the post. Now, I know mods can edit posts. Now suppose other topics are getting traction and people forget about John Smith's post since it's slid off the first page. Along comes a mod with a @moderation post. That puts John Smith's topic right back at the top of the list. Instead, I'd like to propose the mods simply edit the offending post and add their @moderation in the post itself.
For example
@Moderation by Mox A
This is an example moderation message edited into the post, John Smith will be given a warning as an example
The topic would therefore not appear on the firsr page and fade away from the active topics list.
Or for closing topics, a simple 'topic closed by X for Y reason' edited into the initial post could work just as well.
I just think it'd help a lot with topics not being bumped back to the front of the list and drawing attention to them.
