What happened to the promised more relaxed moderation policy in Current Affairs?

plodder

Instead it has gotten worse. Appeals to stay "on topic" and bans handed out to (good) posters who respond to supposed off topic baiting, but not to the baiters.

It's fairly transparent how the (maybe well meaning) moderation policy is being abused here by posters, who just want discussions and particular posters shut down.

plodder

I thought it was important to point out that the poster was banned since there is no list of banned posters on the thread or any other feedback on the thread itself. But, my post was deleted (within minutes of posting it).

The poster herself told me:

I've moved on to [another site*], and I think I'll have to give Irish forums a miss until they catch themselves on. There's just too long a tradition of women's opinions being secondary to men's, and even many women are so used to it that they ignore it when they think the men doing it are on the same side as them.

IMO, men who support women's rights only in the instances that benefit them (divorce, contraception, abortion) who are happy to silence women the moment that women's opinions don't chime with their own, then they are not actually in favour of women's right. Indeed, they don't actually see women as people at all.

*Mumsnet which is a well known site that (unlike this one) allows gender critical viewpoints to be expressed without arbitrary and capricious moderation.

So, here we have a direct example of how people are being censored off of general discussion boards and forced onto other sites that could be regarded as echo chambers and it's being caused by over zealous/biased moderation by the people who think they are on the right side of history.

Big Bag of Chips

@plodder action taken against another poster will not be discussed with you. You know this.

I'm not sure where the poster told you the above. If it was in a PM then you have no right to share it elsewhere on the site.

Posters do not see everything moderators see. It can seem from the outside that a poster was "censored". Moderators have a job to do. As has been evident recently decisions taken will never keep everyone happy. But that's ok. The moderators are aware that someone is going to be upset by some decisions. What will not be entertained are endless "feedback threads" on moderation. Some people think there's over moderations. Some think the moderators let too much slide.

Decisions are generally made for the overall good of the forum. If some posters prefer to leave the site rather than post within the guidelines set out by the moderators then that's their perogative.

I am going to close this thread as everything that will be posted here as been said, over and over in multiple feedback threads recently. There is constant discussion in the mod forums in the background on decisions and ways to manage the forums. There is nothing new that can be added in this thread.