Conspiracy theories forum moderation

nullzero · 26-06-2022 2:52pm #1

I contributed to a thread in feedback last year about the conspiracy theories forum and proposed a solution to some of the issues regular users there have encountered.

I do not regularly post there but some time ago my name was called out in relation to the suggestion I had made in the feedback thread last year.

I replied last week and there were differing opinions on the topic, I have continued to receive updates when new posts are made on the thread I was called into.

Last night I read some of the newer posts and was surprised by the level abuse being thrown around by various users.

It would appear that moderation is from what I can see pretty much non existent on that forum at the moment as the behavior falls short of what anyone would expect from a forum on boards.ie and posters on either side of the discussion are giving out a receiving a level of abuse I have yet to witness on boards.

Is there an appetite to regulate this particular forum?

Shield · 26-06-2022 4:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058251877/conspiracy-theories-forum-moderation

The sole mod for that forum has not been online since Jan21st and it’s possible that the CMods simply aren’t aware of this. I think alerting a CMod to the lack of moderation in there is a good starting point and @Big Bag of Chips is very active in this capacity. Let’s invite him in to this thread and go from there.

-Shield