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

We are volunteers Oscar. I personally have today off after working 50 hours over the last 5 days with Easter etc, so my time has been very limited.
Im exhausted and haven’t the headspace for moderating much today, should I hand in my notice now?
It’s completely unfair to take such an attitude with us all collectively and to make such sweeping accusations. because you perceive someone to be a troll doesn’t make it so.

Like honestly this is the major issue with threads like this, they turn into mod bashing and THAT is why they are closed off eventually. It’s unproductive and just venting frustration which we all feel in one capacity of another. Completely unfair to say no one’s modding the site because we’re here answering queries from posters.

like Jesus man if no mod, cmod or admin replied in this thread you’d be complaining we’re not here!

Threadbans are not like forum bans, which absolutely do have time limits and expirations.

Threadbans are basically just being told not to post. It doesn’t stop you doing so. If I forum ban you then AH disappears. You can’t see it and you certainly can’t post.

From my own experience I’ve threadbanned several posters, who after a time have reached out and asked for their ban to be reviewed which has been done and in almost all cases from memory lifted as a result. Sometimes it is just a matter of giving you time to chill out and in future I will be more likely to issue a dated threadban (ie do not post in this thread for 72hr), rather than leave it open ended.

We deal with sometimes a lot of people everyday and unfortunately it’s impossible to keep track of everyone and follow up in a few days or weeks to see if they want to review their ban. If you want to then reach out to the issuing mod yourself would be my advice.

Look, none of us are very interested in making posters lives miserable, but in doing so we must always keep in mind the wider community. If someone’s posting in a manner which is upsetting the larger population they need to be sorted one way or another. But I’ve never refused to review any mod action or engage with a poster except in very rare circumstances where I don’t think we can agree to a resolution (in which case I will direct to DRP, help desk or a cmod as appropriate).

But as far as threadbans specifically go it’s not possible at the moment to put them on an automatic timer which expires after a certain length. But it’s a very good idea and it’s something I’ll keep in mind myself in future. Circumstance depending instead of just a threadban I will give a poster a chance to redeem themselves by making it clear it’s temporary.

It is not a logical way around that Furze. The logical approach is to contact the moderator in question, the Cmod or Help Desk if all that fails.

Re reg to circumvent the ban will just lead to you being permanently sitebanned, that’s really just the end of it.

I have been thread banned and warned on a number of occassions and with one exception I aint complaining and bitching about it on the forums. Get over it and grow up.

If your site banned you are not welcome on Boards and a re-reg is against the rules of the site.

I don’t know what threads you’re referring to so I can’t really offer anymore than I have already. But you seem to think all the mods don’t give a shite when I’ve just explained we’re volunteers and can’t be everywhere at once. If troublesome posts are not reported we can’t deal with them and if posters are causing trouble they will be dealt with in due course. I will say I see an awful lot of people claiming a poster is “trouble” or “a troll” when in reality it’s just they’re not very popular among certain groups.
we don’t moderate on popularity of an individual we will moderate if the charter or site rules are broken.

I don’t have the tools to verify if someone is a re reg or not but the admins certainly do. I can also tell you for a fact any suspected re reg is reported to admins and checked by same.
Vanilla has hampered the admins ability somewhat to link accounts together as well but when someone is re reg and detected they are sitebanned.
What you may not realise is often these re reg trolls are the same handful of people and not a massive group.
For example I can think of one person who re reg’d close to 100 times just in my tenure as a mod!

They can’t though, they are not cybersecurity experts. It has proven to be the case. They cannot detect reregs if re reg has such knowledge and people are getting very smart now.

Edit- I tried to quote @Charleigh Tinkling Squadron there but Vanilla is acting up woefully with iPhone use anyway past two days.

if you suspect someone’s a re reg then feel free to send me the link to their profile and I’ll share with the admins. I can’t offer anymore help than that.

I’m sorry if you feel that I’m bullying you or being condescending. I certainly do not mean to sound that way I am honestly trying to help you here.

but to take your frustration out on us like you have is unfair Oscar, we are all doing our best with the tools we have available. If you feel that someone is not being addressed is it that they haven’t broken the rules? We don’t have sides to take but often posters can feel someone should be dealt with when there’s nothing wrong with their posting.

For every 10 reports I read maybe 1-2 are actionable and the rest are clearly just the reporter not liking what was said very much or indeed the poster they reported. But as I said seeing as I have no idea what you’re personally referring to I can’t be of much use here.