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

so your argument is there’s not modding, but there is modding and there are objectionable posts, but I won’t object to them. Moderators should just read your mind?

well here’s your problem: report posts you feel deserve to be reported and don’t reply to those posts on thread.

moderating is not a salaried 40 hour a week job moderators are unpaid volunteers who as humans still need to eat and breathe. They are not obliged nor can they possibly read through every post and every thread on every forum, much less for every post consider the totality of circumstances on whether it should be warned or not, keep everyone’s threadbans in their mental Rolodex etc.

If you come across something you think needs their attention that’s what the reported post function is precisely for. To accuse the mods of not lifting the finger while not lifting a finger for them is the staggering level of bollocks the we see repeatedly in the feedback forum each and every time this exact topics comes up. People who expect a volunteer moderation team to work for them when they won’t volunteer five seconds of their own time, until they can rage post about it in feedback after months of letting themselves stew about it

Just state the reason- like “thread gone off topic” would have more than sufficed in that example.

I think you should go back and re-read your previous post(s) in light of this new standard you've introduced to support the present argument, a standard that likely will never be heard from again.

Because I think you missed the bit where you established this:
where is the post from me claiming that you said it

There's no such post, or you would have found it, instead of having to come up with this sophistry.
Pretty discrediting when you make a false accusation of lies, then have to shift the goalposts to try to repeat it.

Yes, it is a fact I stated it could be perceived that way, at least according to the standards of perception you had set yourself when stating similar opinions as 'fact'.

But maybe that was just your "perception" and you didn't mean to "purposefully misrepresent" anyone.

As I said readers can draw their own conclusions about a poster who cries foul when their motivations are ascribed to a 'persecution complex', and 'a form of narcissism' but doles out their own claims of motivations based on 'extreme anger' and 'extreme agitation'.

I see now you are also describing those you disagree with on boards as "misanthropic oddballs".
I don't need to misrepresent anything, purposefully or otherwise - you are proving my points for me with your own words.

queue feedback threads demanding to know how the thread was off topic how can a thread about current affairs be off topic in current affairs etc.

let them queue. If it’s off topic it’s off topic. If it’s predictably another immigrant bashing thread merge it into the other one.

just for the record - I fully agree it’s miles off topic and should have been closed when it was.

My experience is different.

I've been labelled as far right, fascist and had all sorts of ism's and phobias projected onto me for expressing moderately conservative opinions.

I'm not far right and never have been but it's acceptable to apply that label to me because I criticise left wing opinions so obviously I'm far right.

As you've taken the time to make your opinion on this topic known to me, could you clarify your opinion on the comments made by Ancapailldorcha about my mental health and his analysis that I am a narcissist, and in the spirit of discussing site feedback, does that type of opining have a place on boards.ie?

No.. what your suggesting just creates more mod work and for the dumbest of reasons.

And most of the same gangs are at each other in this thread for the past dozen pages or so. These are the posters who will never agree to disagree or even be courteous to each other. That's what blindly following extremes/ideologies does to people.

Quick 24hr/36/48hr/72hr/1week etc threadbans with no appeals or bloody PMs should tamper most of the bickering down, which has been previously suggested by a few. CA will need all mod hands on deck for that though, even from the hobby etc forums.

At least it should be given a try.

Though how a thread about a violent murderous terrorist attack by an immigrant won't involve some discussion of immigration (illegal and refugee applicants) and the overall mess it is everywhere, I don't know.

I think the mod's subjective editorialising was a mistake - why not announce 'too much head in the sand bleeding heartism on this thread' but no, 'immigrant bashing' is given as the thread closure reason.

How would you describe my opinions?

I do think there's a certain irony that you've implied the site is filled with trotskyists but you draw the line at people viewing you as right wing….