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

Can you link me to the comment where I called you a eugenicist?

I also reject the comment that I abused people. Not one of my posts was infracted in that forum. Not one.

The forum is hoping, is it?

Or is it dead?

If its dead, why is that?

I think it's a reflection though of poor modding decisions that ultimately kill a forum.

The soccer forum is similar, as are others. Remember the poker forum? That caused a huge split back in the day, that almost killed the site.

It appears that a lot of mods like a quiet forum, it makes their job easier, but that then just kills the site slowly and surely.

I am not saying modding a forum or a site is easy, it is hard, but some mods see their forum as their own personal fiefdom where they will engage in the day-to-day chat and debate, but will happily use and abuse its power for wrongthink.

100%

I seem to remember that soapboxing is NOT allowed, but it's apparent that in some active threads, there is a small but dedicated set of posters who will endlessly post all day, day in day out, in the most banal way about a topic.

What ends up happening is that the posts dive in quality, and the select few just end up ruining the thread.

Haven't read the whole thread yet but some constructive comments and the usual complaints about mods from those who the mods have the number of dead on.

Would suggest that the Information for those in need of a little extra help stickie be placed as one in the CA forum and maybe a few others, there is already a similar stickie in the personal issues forum. I know that it is being argued that they take up space but if kept up to date they could provide helpful information for some when they are ready to use it.

Unmoderated (or unpoliced) area's almost immediately go straight to Purge

My observation is quite different - those who want/ even demand rigorous moderation are the posters who are trying to control the flow of the thread. And who attempt to bully others off.

You will generally find others that are of different opinions are more tolerant in fact. Live & let live but we'll disagree philosophy.

It's a funny characteristic of some of those who feel they are sidelined in society and who seek tolerance, that they themselves can be very intolerant.

I'm not specifically referring to you here in case you think I am, but to a notable trend among a good many.

I think it has been mentioned before but I think it would be beneficial to not delete posts that receive a warning/ thread ban and so on. Deleting the post means that someone else will likely make the same “mistake” later on in the thread, which means that the mods will have to intervene again which causes for work for them.

The frequent deletion of posts also makes it often impossible to argue a case in dispute resolution because all context has been obliterated. Some people mentioned perceived favouritism and heavy handed moderation against other posters, and I think not deleting posts would help to clear things up.

Some other people mentioned that it’s difficult to know what can be said about public figures or countries at times. The same applies to some heavy traffic threads like the Russia Ukraine one. Some of the stuff posted on the thread is truly horrific and all chatter rules, but it looks like it is tolerated whereas the same behaviour would be infracted in another thread. This inconsistency does not help as posters don’t know what is permissible.

Slightly off topic but what are those "points" I can see in my profile never saw them before.

I agree more comms from mods on actioned posts would be good, especially where that will inform other posters of thread\forum standards.

But if someone has been sanctioned for insults or other such content, that can't be left on the thread either. Ideally edited to remove that with an explanatory comment from mod but if not feasible then deleted.

If it is a blatant re-reg troll, the posts need to be nuked.