***** New Rugby Moderators *****

awec

We're actively working to add some new bodies to the mod ranks, so at this time we've got 3 new victims mods to announce.

@Podge_irl, @CIARAN_BOYLE and @Cookiemunster have agreed to join the pack!

Thanks lads for helping out.

stephen_n

God bless your patience, god help your sanity. Best of luck!

aloooof

Welcome aboard, lads!

Enjoy the off-season, but a solid pre-season will put ye in a great place for the RWC. 😉

Neil3030

MUUUUUUUUUNSTEERRRRR

Neil3030

P.S. thank you all for donating your time to this. At a time when the spikeyness of the Internet appears at an all time high, moderatorship by volunteers is still the best weapon we have against trolls and hatred.

clsmooth

Hi mods, is there any reason why you can’t be more aggressive banning obvious wind up accounts? The mood is quite toxic in the Ireland thread for example. Maybe a ‘private group forum’ like the soccer forum has might result in a more pleasant atmosphere?

swiwi_

Whatever happened to .ak….??

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120957455#Comment_120957455

He's rumoured to be living with a previously undiscovered South American Forest tribe where he has become a Hipster God always being into stuff before they become cool.

Folks there might be one or two match threads in the world cup that I'd like to write. Don't have any stake more than anyone else - but we established a rota previously for match threads for the world cup and six nations and I always felt it worked well and created an expectation so the threads themselves were of a good standard starting off.

Any chance we could look at doing the same for the RWC?

Podge_irl

Like the idea. Will come back to it.

Inforapenny

How long typically for a reported post to be acted upon? Thanks.

Cookiemunster

It depends on when a mod sees the notification. However not all reported posts are acted on, as the mods may not agree that it is something that requires action.

clsmooth

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120956656#Comment_120956656

@awec this appears to be the appropriate thread to ask this question rather than cluttering up the Irish thread. Please see the above post from about a year ago. Is there any reason why we couldn’t consider this?

Lost Ormond

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122838180#Comment_122838180

Would agree With this or at least could we have for all big games at least and even some league games jn case of provinces match threads. And keep provincial discussion threads yo post match talk/chat. Could stop some of the clutter from messing up provincial threads in some cases as it might be kept in actual match threads.

phog

In rugby we often complain about bringing in new laws or changing the ones we have, what's in the charter is good enough, just enforce it for a while and people will learn from their mistakes or the mistakes of others. It was noticeable how things improved last week after a C Mod intervened to give a "Team Warning".