There are only like 50 people using this forum per day. The mod ratio is at worst 1/10. If that's not sufficient, no number will ever be.
Posting, yeah. On a daily basis I doubt there is even 50 different people posting. Using the forum, like reading or posting, I would say there is very likely many more than that. How many people use the forum though doesn't matter, its the amount of posts that does.
In a busy month like March of this year, there was somewhere between 54 and 297 with 29/31 days being above 100 posts, with 6/31 days being above 200 posts, an average of 164 posts a day that month, and 5080 posts overall. A slower month, like May of this year, had only 12/31 days above 100 posts, somewhere between 31 posts and 158 posts, an average of 87 posts, and 2704 posts total. while slower months with generally less postings isn't bad overall to moderate, 158 posts still is going to be quite a bit that day, and a month like March much harder to keep up with everything when the average is 164 posts. While there are some statistics on the the business and slowness of the months, thats still not one of big issues.
Until about a little over a month ago, there was no posted moderation policy for mods to be able to use, thus they were dependant on the report to moderator button much more than now because moderating without a specific policy makes it hard to really be able to say that shades of grey went too far without having something to refer to. A real policy, for both mods and posters to read, makes it easier for posters to be civil by having something they can refer to and moderators to be able to more easily moderate through less clear issues.
