How do you manage multiple moderators checking the same forum?

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Originally Posted by Lynne

I don't understand your last statement about if a Mod stops halfway through a thread. Wouldn't it be OK for the Mod to approve a bunch of posts, then have to leave the site for some reason and only OK the ones he looked over? Or does the Mod have to check all of the posts at one time?

We assume that if a moderator opens a thread, he is there to read (and therefore check) all the posts in it. Or at least the page of posts displayed. To make a mod's life easier, we make that assumption and instantly mark all the visible posts as having been checked automatically. So by just opening the thread, all the visible posts are marked as checked.
If the modertor decides he doesn't want to read the read any more of the thread he has to reverse that marking. The inline system will allow him to highlight the posts he hasn't read and mark them as unchecked.
Although it's probably easier to just go ahead and read the rest of the posts.

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Allowing inline moderation tool to mark threads as checked or even verified is highly prone to abuse. i.e. covering up that threads have not been reviewed.

We have to assume that moderators are here to help us, and if they repeatedly ignore posts which obviously need attention, and mark them as checked without doing so, then they will soon be caught and fired.
But this is very unlikely to happen. We don't accept applications from people to moderate, we appoint them by invitation only. We find that moderators are loyal and hard working. If we can trust moderators to (soft) delete threads, then we can sure trust them to check posts/threads properly.