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

again that’s not the case. You’ll find (this is one of those trust me bro things) the users threadbanned quite quickly are often trouble makers to begin with.

With enough experience we can almost instantly tell when someone’s giving an opinion to partake in the discussion vs someone just trying to get a rise.

Also sure as the sky is blue we get it wrong occasionally and that’s why we have cmods and admins to keep things in order. Like if mods are floor staff (using restaurant terminology here so bare with), cmods are supervisors and admins are the managers.

If there’s a problem with a mod interaction you can report to a cmod to have a look who can then if necessary forward to admin for review. Often I find this doesn’t happen though. A mod interacts, poster either just doesn’t reply or just complains but never goes any further. Then they come here to threads like this and whinge about how unfair the system is when they never bothered to engage with the system for whatever reason.

To suggest a random assortment of individuals somehow all align with the same views on things is ridiculous as well. I’ve often disagreed with and seen plenty of disagreement between mods, cmods and admins about one thing or another. Even among the AH mods we don’t always share the same opinion on things.

We also regularly discuss and share opinions on any given topic when we’re unsure. The thing is most users will never see the background workings so it’s easy to feel like we’re just out banning and warning with abandon, but let me promise you whether or not you believe it is up to you, there is absolutely a strong team of people behind us keeping things in check and ensuring no mod goes rouge.

I also see a lot of people who for whatever reason refuse to use DRP as they feel it’s some sort of foregone conclusion. The fact of the matter is if any mod infracts you unfairly in your opinion but that’s not backed up by the cmod or admin reviewing your dispute it’s probably not all that unfair to begin with.

And it might be the case that the report is justified and the mod is being a dick.

We're being told on this thread that mods are treated the same as anyone else if they're reported but apparently that is not the case? Reports about mods requires a CMod to bring it to Admin attention?

Are reports made about mods automatically routed to CMods level?

Does this apply across all forums? As in, if a mod is reported in a forum other than the one they moderate, does that also require a CMod to look at it?

How routinely would CMods be checking for these reports?

Some clarity here would be good.

This is beginning to look like Current Affairs.

Cranks complaining that everything is the fault of someone or something else, in Current Affairs it's immigrants, the government, etc etc here it's Mods, Admins and the owners of the site.

One of my favourite things to do lately is read threads in Dispute Resolution and see all the times posters whinge "I got banned for no reason..."

But there's always "a reason".

For me the canary, in the mine, were the You Laugh You Lose threads in

https://www.boards.ie/categories/cool-vids-pics-links

The older threads used to have hundreds of "likes/thanks" on individual posts, with (what seemed like) hundreds of posters active.

New thread is a shell of the previous.

Don't know how this has become a mod bashing thread. That is/was never an issue beyond people learning the culture of the site. Most good mods gave new posters some slack and a DM to explain what was what. I, actually, miss the level of moderation from the 2000s. Far too polarised these days, reflecting real world politics too much for my liking