(Site is a graveyard - How can boards save itself?) Any update?

This thread is not about individuals but….. if you continue to attack me the poster, please give clear examples of where I soapbox. That's how boards works, does it not?

You see the thing is, you'll realise as soon as you start, that you, I and everyone here that participate anyway regularly can likely be accused of 'soapboxing'. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

By the way, how many threads have I multiple warnings to 'move on'? And how many am I banned from?

When I argue a case on this thread for more competent moderation, I'm not thinking of myself as you or others might like to portray. I look down the list of banned posters on many threads. I recognise many generally fine and regular posters, whose views I sometimes align with and other times less so, who are on these lists. I see posters added to the list and I just wonder why - where is the logic at all in many cases.

I can sometimes see a logic in banning an obviously new re reg who just jumps in with intent. But there are many others where I'm genuinely baffled. So perhaps reflect on this..

Some other suggestions were:

Shift some of the CA content into Politics eg one US politics thread in CA. More focused topics - discuss in Politics. Same principle could be applied to some other political threads in CA.

Limit access to CA eg X number of posts. May not be feasible with Vanilla.

More clarity in forum charters.

Sorry, yes I see it there now! My eysight is going.

One US politics thread would be a good idea, I personally don't think it should go into Politics, that forum gets almost no traffic, and alot of people have no longing to ever return to it.

Maybe some people could be made junior moderators, to help out with the workload.

Can the search functionality be improved or is that not possible in Vanilla ?

Bull.

The site should determine what it defines transphobia as. If you don't like what they define transphobia as, well, there's the door, the internet's a big place.

I will say, that if boards was to say it's ok to question if a man can become a woman because of whatever reason, I'll be first out, deleting my account.

The boards I signed up to long ago has changed, and yeah, I do want it back. It was nicer, busier, there were RL groups, friendships, marriages and children born from that.

I don't really care if a people get their nose out of joint that they're not able to offend people or spew hateful rhetoric.

Like BOC said, something needs to change or the site is dead.

Thank you for your... Feedback?

We've each said our piece. What is allowed on boards is up to boards admin not us. We should both drop it as the feedback has been given.

I agree charters need overhauling and updating especially in CA/IMHO

I also think a stickied feedback suggestions etc., thread directly in CA/IMHO would be beneficial, I know we have this general forum but as that is probably the busiest forum it may help

Hilarious that you left out the point that I keep repeating.

Your entire list is utterly useless and lacks any sort of functionality if the site rules themselves are not defined, posted and stickied on every forum. (Abusive PM's would be in this sticky)

They should be the ones the owners/management write up/approve.

Under that charter, should be the forum specific charter that is agreed with the mods, the community, and signed off by the cmods/admin.

Both sets should be re-appraised annually in a thread on that forum by mods and users alike, and altered as needed.

Threads cannot be moderated effectively by anyone, let alone the handful of mods we're clinging onto at the minute if they have to decide by gut what should be allowed or not.

You look for more moderation of current affairs and directly underneath that, less moderation of current affairs....

Come on, that's kind of funny

As for your "abuse of the report feature" as an ex mod, rarely, rarely happens. It's relied on too much. Saying that, I remember hearing of people getting temporary site bans for constant spurious reporting.

The irony of this in light of your insistence that people you disagree with are to blame for ruining threads and looking for them to be banned to suit you is mesmerising.

Try suggesting something that's easy to be implemented, that can be actioned by the mods and admins without much hassle instead of throwing your toys out of the pram about banning everyone who upsets you.

This thread is after getting popular…

…everyone on Olympic withdrawal.

IIRC both bans were handed out for bickering with another user.

We can all do with a cool down period sometimes, short bans would accomplish that without DR threads needing to be set up.

People missed people running rings around each other. 😉