Site is a graveyard - How can boards save itself? [Threadbanned users in 1st post]

boards was class pre Vanilla.. the changeover was a bullet.. slowly dying..

Only a matter of time before the thread is shut down after being moved here.

How do you know if someone is re-regger?

It's just the format and how people use the internet that is killing boards. There's no way of preserving it long term just prolonging the decline. People, including myself, are getting more and more used to either a 10 minute video on Youtube vs watching a movie, then it's watching a 30 sec TikTok vs a 10 minute Youtube video. The attention span and willingness to put in effort online is just getting less and less.

The tech fora are prime examples of that.

Once upon you could ask the most niche question and a detailed answer would appear in minutes

nearly every second poster is seeking to be offended and needs to be protected by the mods (mummy)

Then the mods jump on and ban/warn etc. less regulation might help

That's the thing - old school message boards are just way superior for actual discussion. The format lends itself to linear and ongoing discussion.

The likes of Reddit, as busy and all as it is, are painful to use and experience for that kind of thing. You'd never scroll through a Reddit thread in its entirety to see what people are saying - well I wouldn't any way. It just becomes a disjointed collection of random opinions.

It does lend itself to the constant repetition you'll see on Reddit. Threads start, they blow up for a while, die away, someone else starts a thread on the same subject shortly afterwards and the cycle repeats itself. There's no "memory" There's threads here that have ran for years and, at their best, are repositorys for poster's knowledge and advice etc that's built up over time. Reddit doesn't have this kind of archive. It's absolutely one thing going for it that boards has that Reddit doesn't.

Fully agree with the downvoting phenomenon turning things into an echo chamber. But, on the other hand, the equal prominence given to every post on a message board thread can often mean that the most overbearing and/or witless are given more oxygen than is due. Double edged sword I guess.

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Why were you a chicken before?

Theres a Mod on the fianace and banking thread. He closes down every query anyone has on Revolut and bangs it into a single thread Revolut.

If I want to ask a specific question about any aspect of Bank of Ire, AIB, EBS Credit Union etc, or anything else, I'm allowed open a thread and ask a question on it. With Revolut however, he transfers every single query it to the single Revolut thread. As if anyone has the time to wade through pages and pages of questions that are totally irrelevant to them, just to see if their query had been asked before,

Nearly every person, most especially young people, in the country has a Revolut card, but this mod doesn't want various queries on Revolut messing up his page. What's the point in visiting his overmoderated page.

I don't visit that page anymore myself, life too short. And I'm sure he's succeeded in scaring off a lot of other people as well

And they comment the same thing on every thread about lower banking costs about how banking's a commodity now, noone wants to pay for it, it won't be free forever and how great Swiss banking is. Telling everyone not to go for free banking because it can't stay free forever. Weird logic.

Many posters left over vanilla move and every week there is issues that rarely get fixed or answered

I feel since Covid some mods have gone on power trips, handing out warnings and bans unwarranted to some but not others but then I suppose everyone is bias with a mod decision against them

I'd be happy for a decent working site with some help given to Boards Mike who I cannot tag now as is he now solo

I think its the notification system.

I used to subscribe to lots of threads that interest me - and be notified at the end of the week in one summary - and I would read and respond then. It ropes people back in.

Now I get bombarded with so many emails - one per post throughout the day - that I generally unsubscribe from the most active threads - and promptly forget they exist if I don't see them on the front page again…. (if this is my only post to this thread - that's why… :/ )

People have said just use the Followed Forums page - but getting folk to have to manually poll a page is not how to keep potential posters engaged and active.

I have seen site bans handed where I thought the moderation was heavy handed, but for re-reg in general I would tend to go with a saying my father had. "People do not end up in prisons because of their good behaviour"