Dispute with mod

Ah yeah it is. It's ruined constantly by trolls and wums.

LOL!

I just got banned by Beasty for a week for calling Trump 'Rapey Don'. I think. It's hard to tell with him most of the time..

It all went to hell when they removed downvotes.

Now people are forced to engage with trolls to express their displeasure of a comment.

It's a completely ridiculous rule that was foisted on the forum. The days we can't state the truth is a completely bonkers day for boards.

Trump IS a rapist. Found so and called out by a judge. How we can't say that here is utterly mind boggling.

Whats next? We won't be able to mention:

Berties brown envelopes or that he didn't have a bank account in the next Irish president election thread?

Sinn Feins link to terrorism?

Israel battering the sh*t out of Palestinians?

It's an absurd joke of a rule, whatever side of the partisan divide you land on.

Never said it was your rule, don't sweat. I just said it's a ridiculous rule, and has pretty much broke the mould on boards that we're not allowed state the truth because its boring or doesn't make for pleasant reading or whatever.

I have no recollection of down votes.

Yep, that's what I mean, thumbs up and thumbs down.

You'd see a comment with 20 thumbs down and there was no point engaging. The community had already spoken.

Lol, that's the way to do it. If yer gona get banned for nothing you may as well get banned for something haha..

That was such a long time ago and for such an insignificant period I think you might be thinking of something else? Boards for the last 20 years has basically only really had the 'thanks' ability, to my memory anyway.

I generally think an up/down vote karma system is flawed as it doesn't promote discussion. A lot of subreddits seem to be echo chambers as a result with everyone going contra to the sub's party line getting down voted and pushed out of the discussion. It's tedious to read.

Can't believe your offer of being a mod wasn't accepted, you have the belligerence towards users down to a tee.

😂

Seriously though writing off genuine concerns from some users as hysterical is probably not wise.

Either way I can see Current Affairs going the way of the Political Forum, an absolute grave yard.

Who knows maybe that is by design.

Time sure does fly doesn't it? 😅

Re the OP, I honestly only really ever see Beasty actually moderating on boards these days. For better or for worse, it does seem like he has an absolute herculean task on his hands.

Do people just not want to moderate anymore? I moderated absolutely aeons ago and it seemed like the place was choked with mods back then. Feels like lots of the forums now just have no active moderation?

It would be interesting to see who’s flagging posts. I’m getting the impression a certain noisy minority from the left started this and now some on the right have caught on and are doing the same. This is when mods are actually looking at individual posts and just throwing out bans to do something.

There’s a few poster here that completely and repeatedly derail threads with nitpicking and constant posts on threads. It’s more than a bit rich hearing them complain.

That was exactly what I pointed out to Beasty but I was told that I have had accululated plenty of warnings already and my next ban would be permanent.

(erm…yeah of course I have accumulated lots of bans…you just gave me around 5 warning in a scattergun approach looking over about 2 hours of posting…2 days after the fact).

Another point I made that has fallen of deaf ears is that because I didn't report most of the posts which were as equally against the rules as mine above were…they aren't liable to sanction.

I explained the reason I didn't report almost any was because robust and heated conversation has it's place. I don't think I deserved a warning for my posts, so I didn't report others similar to mine, directed at me. Now retrospectively, I think that's unfair, especially as I am locked out of the forum for 3 weeks and am also unable to report for that length of time.

Upon reinstation to the threads, will I be able to report old posts and will the same scattergun and rapid fire santions be applied to other posters for something they said 3 weeks ago and hadn't been warned?

This only encourages people to actively seek out posts they know may be borderline in an attempt to get users permanently banned.

And I think that is by design if I am being honest.

Think Beasty needs to take a break from being a mod from reading his post above