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

A Cmod who should step away from CA as clearly has blinkered options on news sources, politics and posters on here. It's known as a conflict of interest. Post away as a normal poster is fine.

I will stand by that opinion and never move from it and from these threads a lot of other posters feel the same.

I thought this thread was for about feedback of the site as a whole, did I miss when it became individual poster wars

I expect they'll be along shortly to close it, citing the above.

It's relatively pointless anyway given that the mods and admins all agree (after exhaustively investigating) that they have no bias at all at all.

There's really nothing to be done, given that a stubborn minority of us still resist all re-education efforts and insist on taking the evidence of our eyes and ears over correct-speak.

Further, the site owners appear to have abandoned the place and perhaps it would be a mercy if some day soon we were greeted with a 404 message as someone suggested earlier will eventually be the end of boards.

The poster's feedback relates to the conduct of other posters. If you are talking about claims v 100+ highly active posters getting away with "abuse", and that it is being facilitated by biased moderation, that becomes site wide in scope.

Not sure how you can challenge such feedback without it also becoming in part about the individual making those claims.

But it is focused on CA... the gone quiet forums have few champions here for obvious reasons.

Where precisely did I focus on immigration as you say?? Please point it out. And be good enough to apologise for the type of slur that I do instance at the base of my post. I did not state or focus on immigration as the source of housing problems. I merely mentioned that our 'new arrivals' would do best to help build there own nations. But the focus of my post was on what we Irish citizens and society should prioritise. Your reaction and that of below just proves the very point that I was making about bias.

Ditto.

But yous are only only ordinary posters and entitled to your opinions and I and others are to ours. The issue for boards is when the sort of conclusions you tend to jump to immediately are echoed by moderators.

I'm long enough in the tooth to remember Feeky McGee and the craic that was had around that, Terry, etc, etc. Even when people were being called to task there deffo was a much more community vibe about the place. Why exactly I don't know, more meetups perhaps, maybe people that were friends offline were here and it gave a sort of veneer of community, also the type of people who have access to the internet is much greater; any idiot with a phone is online now. A big part of the reason for decline though is forums aren't how most people spend their time online now. Boards was of it's time and I'm sure will survive but the current trend is what it is and I don't see anything changing that.

The current thread on the stabbing incident in Solingen is a sad reflection of the place on both sides of the argument compared with some of the great debates I've read the back and forth on here over the years.

^^^^ @nullzero

Second # checks out.

These users don't give a $hit about the site and will delight in running it into the ground

All three thread bans I've accumulated in the 15 years I've been on the site have been as a result of defending myself against people such as yourself who are only looking for an argument through misrepresentation much like what you've included in your post just now.

As has been pointed out previously I have taken accountability for this and am using the ignore function to circumvent those types of situations in future.

Not that my presence on any forum is any of your business Shoog.

A similar element of users crept into the comments section on broadsheet a few years ago. There was a nice community of posters there until these people arrived accusing the site of being far right etc, eventually the site closed down and those commentors were revelling in its closure, it's very similar to some of the guff being put forward here about boards turning into stormfront et al.

Since Musk took over Twitter there is no regulation as to what is posted so it might be a time to update the site rules.

Posters are using it as a source often without comment to dump anything they come across to make or backup a point.

The danger is others clicking them links and ending up down the same rabbit hole.

Just a single example from this evening leaving the poster and thread out of it as its not relevent.

And this is the kind of stuff posted in AH in a supposed light-hearted thread.

This is what is killing the site.

Nobody it would seem is capable of being civil, particularly in this thread, however only people expressing certain opinions tend to find themselves on the sharp end of moderation for the most part, that's the point that was being made.

Your OP was of that post was focused on immigration.

The government regularly spins numbers of new houses built and mortgages given to first time buyers but is there ever any breakdown as to nationality benefiting from this. I presume our many new non nationals on valid work visas working in tech and medicine etc are all included in these purchases & mortgages.

This housing business and the squeeze on young adults has been an issue before but I see it really exploding now as an issue. There is no easy fix for the government and they insist on pouring petrol on the fire by actively allowing the population to expand.

I'm not talking about me.

I'm talking about the perception of inconsistent modding generally.

The last thread ban I received I was trying to reply to something like 38 replies from people being openly uncivil towards me that I received within a couple of hours. I was told that by replying to them all I alone dragging the thread off topic.

I was issued with pointed warnings for two separate posts a day after they were posted, the logic being that I had been warned once and the ignored that warning and posted again, the problem being that the first warning came a day after the second post was posted, the logic and timeline was flawed.

The mod in question understood why I felt unjustly treated and offered to over turn the ban but not lift the warnings, I refused on the grounds that only one warning should stand not two, the issue went to Dr and was reviewed by Ancapailldorcha who had been abusive towards me in that thread, and he upheld the ban, big surprise.

So whatever perception you have of me wanting the rules changed to suit me is completely baseless.

I want the rules applied evenly across the board, that is not happening currently and having dispute resolutions overseen by someone who is so hostile in their approach to discussion on threads is a conflict of interest.

It would be useful if you could take on board what I'm saying instead of making assumptions.

I'm not able to report posts currently, but that post from Shoog was a prime example of a post that warrants being sanctioned on thread.

Like you said, it's pure baiting and adds nothing to the discussion at hand, just jabbing at someone for the hell of it.

Yet another poster calling my mental health into question which is an absolutely disgusting type of commentary.