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

This is it. Was closed by yourself in the end actually

Tbf the reason its only megathreads is because thanks to vanilla you cant just follow the entire "soccer" board anymore. Thus any new op's posted in the private group dont appear in the homepage and obviously aren't followed by any regulars (as it was just created) so it goes unseen.

Before if you followed the soccer board any new thread would appear in your following section.

I like boards, always have since I stumbled across it back in the day. On my second username as I forgot the password for my previous one after a hiatus. The Irish-centric(ness) across a broad range of topics is great. Sure there is r/ireland on reddit but that's just After Hours/Current Affairs not much specialist stuff there. Also the upvote/downvote thing, I like reading forums in a cohesive manner. One could hear about something and come on here and get a flavour of both sides of a debate/topic. Unfortunately the format doesn't suit younger people these days. I'd say that's the way with forums generally and not just a boards.ie specific issue.

In the last two soccer feedback threads I very strongly got the sense that mods were happy with how the forum was running, how there was very little disruption, few flashpoints, little trolling, it was ticking away nicely.

Yet few seemed to point out the obvious, there is no trouble because there is no anything, it is a ghost town. Of course there are no bar fights, nobody goes to your bar.

If the priority is a tidy bar and less work for the mods then grand, carry on then. It will be nice and tidy when it finally closes.

One more thing, and it's more of a meta comment than anything really.

When this type of thread comes up every once in a while, there is invariably a flurry of engagement from Mods, Cmods, Admins and whoever else, and they always say there are good points being made, they are being discussed on the mod forums, between cmods and admins etc, and sometimes there's even a promise that at some undefined future point they'll come back and give updates. That last part never happens.

What I think would be good to see would be a sort of list of things from this thread that are being discussed, and then come back in, say, 4 weeks and outline the outcome.

We heard you saying x, y, z and here are the changes we are implementing in relation to those points.

We heard you saying a, b, c but there aren't really any changes we can make there due to restraints of Vanilla

We heard you saying m, n, o and we don't think the points were constructive, and we think we are doing ok on those things and nothing will be changing

Then leave the thread open for a further week for any feedback in relation to decisions made, then close it.

I don't want to go digging for previous threads, but it's almost guaranteed to be the case that the eventually get locked, piddle out and there is never any feedback about the feedback - it'd be amazing, if this time that was different.

Human nature being what it is, I think a month of rigorous deletion of stuff would show the carckheads who post such stuff that it it won't stay up, leaving to in place is indulging them.

As a matter of interest, what are the criteria that prevent mass deletion?

folk have no right to be indulged, any sense of entitlement must be killed off at source, since it is just an imagined reality.

over on AAM, BB replaces the delete button on his computer every few months!