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

This is something I suggested to an admin some time back and was told it was something that would probably be a good idea but couldn't be implemented with the new set up.

It's obvious to some that a minority of mods are on a power trip with the Sherriffs badge constantly visible, this supposed ethos that is meant to prevail where posters are instructed to "attack the post and not the poster" does not seem to apply to mods posting outside the forums they moderate.

I've had a difference of opinion with mods on one forum only to be warned for something mickey mouse when I post soon afterwards on a forum they moderate. Real petty stuff that I couldn't be bothered entertaining them with a reply to. Maybe I should have if but to my mind that's only feeding their ego. One mod wasn't here a wet week when he banned me from the shooting forum because amongst other things I highlighted how one poster over there is seemingly above reproach and allowed post all kinds of right wing anti Garda, anti Government tripe without fear of repercussions.

Part of the reason he gave me for implementing the ban was when he previously warned me I didn't interact with him afterwards. You couldn't make this stuff up.

Having said that there are some great mods on here who are a credit to themselves and the forum, they let discussions flow, don't take differing points of view personally and share their expert opinions freely. I've seen a mod publically pull another mod back into line when it was needed and stuff like that is good for the site. This attitude of "we are mods, we are spartans" is pathetic.

I’d also put those posters who jump on everyone for “evidence” or “links” to anything posted that they disagree with, yet when their statements are pulled up they disappear for 20/50 “buffer” posts before returning and hoping it’s blown over while their post remains into the same bracket.

I'm a technophobe myself but even I know there's something fundamentally wrong with a former biggest internet forum in Ireland when something as simple as this is impossible to implement.

The forum was way easier to use before it was "upgraded" a couple of years back. Did that upgrade actually achieve anything of benefit to anyone besides the people that got paid to do it?

Great to get such insightful feedback from a poster who joined the site 3 hours ago.

Back to the topic of this thread it's stopping this behaviour that would help save the site.

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Mod note: All opinions are welcome. I think it's clear this poster is not a brand new 3 hour old poster. Offer your own opinion without dismissing someone else's.

New mods should be on probation for a set period. Moderate like a dick too many times and you're demodded. The 'power' can be too much to handle for some.

All this newfound cuddly mod/Cmod/Admin understanding doesn't seem to extend as far as reading or responding to a thread in the DR forum in a timely manner.

I've had one there for 2 days now with over a hundred views, but apparently none of those was a Cmod or an Admin...

Strange that, - given that the forum is specifically for mods, Cmods and Admins to address or adjudicate on posters grievances.

It's not as if there are 40 active threads there or anything.

Whilst it may not be the case, it gives the appearance of the top brass having a discussion amongst themselves first about how they are going to whitewash any investigation on what happened, and then implementing it in concert.

Tardiness on replying in that particular forum is highly disrespectful to posters and gives us the impression that we are seen as guilty deviants unworthy of anything above bare tolerance.

It's the general attitude of some/many/most of the moderator team here.

See, here's my exact point being made barely 2 posts after i made it.

Posters complaining about posters and moderators having to over moderate.