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

Anyone who thinks maybe joining NATO and signing up to be cannon fodder in WW3 is not in our national interest is labelled a Russian bot.

Heaven forbid that this country pursues an independent geopolitical strategy. Or even threatens to in order to improve the lot of the Irish people. When the international financiers attempted so saddle Iceland with bankers debts they said "it looks like we may have to find new friends". Ireland just added an extra 60 billion onto our national debt without a whimper.

I also got banned for not joining in the Enoch Burke hate fest. I said "whatever you think of him he will be on record as someone who opposed the sterilization of vulnerable children". You are free to agree with the moderators on this website. That's why I've had little engagement with it since setting up an account.

The site is dying because it is an echo chamber

This is not a place to discuss your opinions on Russia, it is a feedback forum. I was simply pointing out the reality of your situation so you weren't confused.

Some people seem to think having ordinary middle of the road opinions gets them “sanctioned”. In fact, many posters on this thread report just this.

It's kinda convenient how you justify this by labelling them as 'right or far-right'. And rather telling.

One man's far right is another man's middle of the road. Accept it and get over it.

I just like fitting in somewhere 😂

And all the ones who re-reg time and time again who absolutely love it here.

Some even manage to accumulate thousands of obvious re-reg posts bemoaning 'middle-aged' bald men amongst other brilliant insights.

That's low level.

Amazing.

Amazing.

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? 

I'm interested in how you, a "normal user" can state with such confidence who is and isn't a re-reg - are you suspicious of all new accounts claiming to be girls or women? Do you have a tracking tool unavailable to mods/cmods etc?

Anyone reporting another user as a re-reg and not saying who they claim the new user to actually be should be subject to sanction themselves imo, it's a very dishonest tactic to get people thrown out of threads.

Well personally I think re-regging and re-surfacing in the same thread in say Current Affairs or Politics more times than not is done for dishonest reasons, when they misrepresent themselves as 'new' to the discussion. Either to evade a ban or because they were found out making some dodgy claim before and disappeared and are now trying to worm their way back.

If a brand new account pops into a thread (and we've seen many say in the Russia thread) and starts trolling the thread, in their posts displaying obviously old knowledge of the thread, they are clearly a rereg troll. I don't think reporting them as a rereg troll should be subject to sanction.

This is different to someone re-regging for valid reasons (lost access to old account, had asked personal question in such a forum) and then posting regularly elsewhere.

One last suggestion - accept that Vanilla can't replicate the appearance of old Boards and scrap all the modifications that attempt to do that.

Every time Vanilla push their own update it sends something askew, and every time they fix that it sends something else askew. A site that functions as it should is surely preferable to having something that looks more like Vbulletin but constantly glitches?

Thanks again to all the Mods, CMods and Admins who engaged openly with the thread (and don't forget to update us all 🙂).

@Glaecon thanks for posting that. Can you remember boards immediately post migration? I don't think it looked like that.

@Big Bag of Chips that's great that you're saying there will be feedback, but as I mentioned before that's been said on this sort of thread many times before, and then radio silence.

Do you feel like giving a timeframe, or a commitment to when you'll provide updates?

It's also a pretty wishy washy post tbh, you say stuff like

have been some very good and workable suggestions

also some very obvious problem areas

Some, some….what are the suggestions and problems you are seeing, that can be addressed?

You've said some things won't be addressed, or can't be and that's fair enough, but it would be nice to know which things they are, and which things you think can be worked on, before the thread closes.

Alright so.