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

I thought it was explained once as pre and post Vanilla, or something to do with the changeover.

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It got nuked. Apparently all future discussion of Israel, must take place in the “Hamas attacks Israel” thread.

I'm not reading all 44 pages on this graveyard of a thread!

Seriously, moderation can be inconsistent and be a good thing. A post on one thread could cause chaos and need action, a similar post on another thread with different, more mature/experienced users, it just gets ignored naturally. No need to mod it.

Ridiculous that there was no Donaldson thread. Can't see the rationale for that at all.

If it's an echo chamber, and I don't agree it is, posts like that, which are grandstanding on topics or issues other than that of the thread, are a perfect example of some of the cause.

Some people seem to think having right, or far-right, opinions gets them “sanctioned”.

When, in reality, they just couldn’t “express” their, odious, opinions in a civil manner or they couldn’t follow some of the other site rules.

It really isn’t hard to avoid sanctions or discuss any topic in a civil “manner”.

They can report all they want, as long as it’s not in breach of the rules nothing will happen.

Everybody thinks their opinions are reasonable: otherwise they wouldn't hold them.

Yet you have had how many accounts here?

One thing that baffles me, all the doomsayers who re reg time and time again while saying how crap it is here.

Well now, “low level” sure does seem like the word of the day for some. Can’t say I’ve heard of it before, do we have a definition of what it constitutes?

So far, I’ve only seen it used when, that most protected and sensitive of “species”, angry, gammon faced, middle aged men have a mirror held up to them. Which, from what I can see, does not contravene any site rules.

Sounds like a, desperate, attempt, by a certain “cohort”, to get good people they don’t like, off the site. To me, anyway.

Can anyone tell me, is it “low level” trolling for a guy to rereg on the site, posing as a “silly girl” parody or overweight/mature woman? You know the type, they rack up a few hundred posts very quickly, in a variety of threads/forums, all the while pretending they’re new to the site, but all the while showing a keen familiarity with it.

Then, when they get up to 4 or 500 hundred posts they quickly move onto expressing hardcore anti trans and anti immigrant opinions, in AH in particular. To be fair, the mods tend to act fast and you’ll see them get the prison bars or in “Dispute Resolution” complaining that they have been hard done by or attacked by a mod.

I don’t see anything in the rules that can be reported in the first part but once they step out of line they get “stung” by the mods, or are open to be reported for clear rule breaches. From what I can see, you can’t just report someone for expressing an opinion you don’t like, not unless the rules get changed to allow that.