Clarity on new Current Affairs rules

at the risk of going off topic….

Far too much credence was given to a minority shouting "mod-bias" at the expense of the majority of posters who if anything wanted more moderation.

those two aren't mutually exclusive, a lot shouting mod bias would be happy with a bit more moderation overall, if it was applied evenly, over all.

After Hours still tolerates a bit of that, I think. and The Cuckoo's Nest is still a thing, though probably not as well frequented or publicised… (I suppose it depends on the type of thing you want to post though)

https://www.boards.ie/categories/the-cuckoos-nest

As someone in “prison” right now (for a crime I didn’t commit *shakes fist * 🤪-I certainly wanted more more and better moderation.

Saying that - I actually love ❤️ this part of the new charter:

“However we would like to clarify the following - Low level snark/ personal abuse, concern trolling, sealioning, victim blaming, piling on posters, link dumping and bringing up a posters previous posts from other threads/forums are specifically 

not allowed”

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There’s been A LOT of low level snark personal abuse piling on posters type trolling on certain threads - this has greatly reduced and long may it continue.

I’m interested in the “debate can be more robust” aspect though - I think robust debate is super - but there’s a fine line moving from robust debate to the above type of abuse type posting - robust and honest debate combined with attack the post not the poster will need to be remembered - robust debate often leads to “bickering” as Beasty calls it -so I’m not sure what “robust” debate actually means - standing your ground over 3 pages of posts “could” be classed as robust- it could also be classed as other things but it always takes two to tango - I post, you reply, I reply again and before you know it we’re into page 2 of “discussion” albeit poles apart - is that robust or just one upmanship, thread de-railing ?

Sometimes posters end up in this situation because of pile on- sometimes it’s a “spat” between two posters - but either way, I think “robust” needs to be defined or exampled a bit more -

Mods and admin are going to have to manage those posters all over again anyway.

Just report the post with your reason for reporting it.

That's a pretty bizarre piece of advice. Some reports might need context.