Lads ye need to start advertising for mods

Who has the decision on who is appointing mods?

If its the two current Mods of CA and AH than it will make no difference.

The two Mods have left wing views and have completely biased views, it's natural to be biased but it has ruined the forums.

You have 6 or 7 users who have free reign to insult everyone.

Horrible insults like racist and nazi are fair game for them to level at other users.

One of the posters had about 10 posts over 3 days in the east wall thread calling people nazis a disgusting insult and had no action taken against him/her.

Anyone with centrist views are constantly insulted and the Mods take no action.

When anyone responds in the same tone as these posters the threadbans come out.

The best and most frequent posters have left over the Mods and it is dead these days with most threads overrun with a few posters insulting anyone who disagrees with them.

Those forums badly need more Mods with more centrist views to encourage more users to debate without fear of being banned for not having left wing views.

I have been correctly threadbanned from a view threads, yet the left wing posters post in the same manner daily but are never banned.

The forums badly need Mods who are not so biased because two very popular forums are dead because of moderation.

Something can be both factually correct and insulting you know. They're not binary states.

In fairness, that can be difficult when it wasn't your own post. The mod in question won't change his mind and you can't post in someone else's dispute thread. Even in feedback, there's little expiation given.

The thing is while a lot of people are blatantly obviously posting stuff that's racist and then calling bias, there's also a heavy bias in terms of the mumbrr ight-wing leaning posters banned (and I say this as someone who leans mostly to the left - at least with social issues).

Do mods tell.posters 'this us racist and here's why:' or just 'this is racist'? - I appreciate that it's done on a voluntary basis and time is an issue, but it might alleviate some of the conflict if there were honest explanations given.

Anything which puts boards.ie at risk of libel damages or being accused of prejudicing a trial is just not going to fly, that's not going to change until Irish laws change (unlikely).

If you want to say whatever you like about anything, set up your own website (and pay your own legal bills).

You can't prejudice a trial before a non-jury court.

Have to say I, personally, think it is very unfair to bring in moderator, and admin, perceived “politics” into this.

The rules are the rules and if, some, more right wing posters can’t keep within those rules that’s not the mod’s, or admin’s, fault. All they can do is enforce the rules.

Yes some, more long term, posters will get some “credit” and other, better behaved ones the same but no one is above the rules and it’s ridiculous when you see some really terrible posters moaning about getting sanctioned when their posting style is just muck.

If you’re feel like you are being “targeted” by a mod, or admin, then don’t give them any reasons to ban you. It’s not that hard to post within the rules, and I say that as someone whom has received a few warnings, myself.

It’s not just right wing posters who don’t follow the rules. There are others who do the same. This isn’t about left or right wing, it’s simply about rules not being enforced consistently. Naturally this frustrates people who get infracted for something while other posters are free to post in the same fashion. And this isn’t aimed at anyone in particular but a general observation.

Holy Moly Faith, when a poster like yourself posts on a thread like this in such strong terms then something is absolutely amiss somewhere.