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

No messenger shot. Just perma-victimhood getting knocked down

The world-wide move to mobile devices is a far bigger issue that any moderation, IMHO.

Posting anything substantial from a mobile-device "keyboard" is just hard work. I cannot be ar$ed, for the most part. So any post beyond a couple of lines (eg this one) has to wait til I'm on machine with a real keyboard. And I know from my work that the number of households with a desktop or laptop has shrunk massively: most non-techy people now have a tablet at most.

So posts tend to be short, and miss out nuances.

That and AI: many people have suspicions, but no one really knows what posts are made by humans and what ones are made by bots. There are lots of threads that I would not waste time on any more, just 'cos I think they're suspect.

trying to find where you last posted on here is a fcukin nightmare. I’ll be on here tomorrow and I won’t have a clue where to go looking for where I was.
it has something to do with them fcukin stars but it’s too complicated for me to learn.
the old set up was far more user friendly. Hit last post and away you went.
I still use it but I don’t post as much because my posts are gone tomorrow like a fart in the wind and I haven’t a fcukin clue where to go looking for them.
most thanked post of the day and being able to see thanks was also brilliant. Also now gone.

I would echo that sentiment about certain mods, it is quite obvious.

I think the only “issue” with moderation, that I can see, is that some mods are, somewhat, too human in their warnings, and interactions.

It’s seems like the more “mechanical” the mod is in their “dealings” with low quality posters the less chance there is of an infraction being overturned in DRP.

A mod who reacts to, really, terrible users’ cock and bull defence “stories”, the made up personal, sob story type, excuses as to why they broke the rules, in a more personal fashion can see their actions reversed or, even, have their own behaviour sent up the line for admin review.

Meanwhile, the absolute waste of space, with an abysmal site record, is left laughing away thinking ‘I can’t believe they bought that crap I made up’.

It might be better to advise all mods to be more ‘you have been warned for X, if you wish to dispute it go to Dispute Resolution’ and leave it at that as it seems that when a mod tries to reason, or explain, their action that it leaves too much room for the malefactor to, then, “get off” on a technicality.

It’s the type of thing that will lose the site moderators as they may not see the point in continuing, if the “higher ups” don’t appear to have their back.

Posters who attack others, then will not even have the graciousness to accept they are wrong, when questioned. The 'I am always right' mentality of a 7 year old. They will usually then pull a 'oh, I am being persecuted here again, people following me around attacking me… ' stance when you find a hole in their argument, and point it out. Such people are not able to use a board like this one, and should probably pick up their ball and go home to mummy.

It's pretty easy to spot such people.

It's not the mods fault that this site may be dying, it's people like this.