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

No but I can understand the rules properly.

Honestly, do the new accounts asking questions and the old accounts airing grievances add anything useful to the thread? Dragging up old grudges on this thread is pointless. Let mods do their unpaid job and get on with it and we should all get over it. Don't break the rules and you won't get modded.

I've just been given a warning for speaking about how another poster had blatently lied in a thread.

It was an attack the post not the poster warning.

I'm not quite sure how you can attack the post without being at least slightly derogatory against the person who wrote it. I get full on personal abuse is out of line, but saying that consistent lying makes someone look silly surely doesn't constitute a personal attack?

If that's against the rules, fair enough, but it is inconsistently applied.

Any of the American politics threads in the Current Affairs section would have every contributer banned.

Any of the American politics threads in the Current Affairs section would have every contributer banned.

Have to agree with this, the US threads in CA are littered with personal attacks since each of those threads started.

Might be a good idea to make an announcement about this @Big Bag of Chips

Very demanding thread now;-)

I certainly don't recall any overwhelming vote of any sort, or any vote at all for that matter. What's this all about?

What gets posters riled is inconsistent and biased (BBOC uses the term discretion) moderation.

Debating any issue will inevitably result in a certain level of dispute (bickering if you wont) and that is surely fine, discussing points, learning a bit, changing views.

What is proposed above is more 'choose you own expletive' moderation, not less moderation as the site needs.

We have too much over moderation and I've instanced it above. We have posters engaging civilly and being warned and banned because moderators accuse them of being off topic, in their opinion (ie discretion or bias). We have long lists containing many ordinary decent posters thread banned off threads, total opposite of the basic concept of boards. This type of moderation is a failure.

We have a voluntary moderation group that seem to find it impossible to simply say they made a mistake, apologise etc. Instead they circle the wagons, palm posters off with excuses and dig ever deeper holes.

I and I'm sure the vast majority appreciate the work that moderators put in but that doesn't justify incompetence, bias and abuse of those positions.

Saying another poster who is not even posting here is lying on a thread somewhere is so unfair , those that do this sort of thing are exactly the posters that should be sanctioned I think .

It's not be very fair to be saying that about a poster here on this thread especially when they are not here to defend themselves

Notice these posters using this feedback thread to air grievances about petty squabbles and every warning they get that they think they shouldn't .

There is no hope of improving or suggesting improvements if people that petty are allowed to rail continually on feedback .