Dispute with mod

I'm sure I read Beasty say before that if he was looking to get paid, Boards couldn't afford him. And that was probably before the current state of affairs

Why do the mods not get remunerated?

Does their service have no value?

How many regular users are their on boards?

Would they be happy to pay a little for its upkeep or do they not really value the forum and see it as a public convenience(even those are paid for by one way or another)

The radio forum seems to be one of the strangest forums. So many people there who seem to listen to things they hate deliberately.

The mods should definitely be getting paid. I don’t know anyone who’d want to do such a role for free. There’s no upside to it.

Is a bit of levity allowed?

I see we have another Trump thread. In a completely unrelated section on a forum on a different continent. The internet is great. :/

It might be worth a separate thread in time if it becomes an issue- the limited encounters I’ve had tend to be new users starting a new thread and pasting a load of semi intelligent sounding waffle on a topic- so not particularly clever although I did see one poster well over a year ago hold a reasonably sounding discussion over a couple of pages but again it was quickly determined they were just cutting and pasting - I don’t tend to read long drawn out posts anyway unless it’s a topic Ive great interest in so it rarely impacts me - regular posters who want to continue to use the site just wouldn’t be bothered to do it

I've made plenty of suggestions, on this and the other feedback threads. I'd volunteer to help mod only (a) it wouldn't be accepted and (b) I know I wouldn't have time to commit to it properly while working full time. Maybe when I retire, if the site is still here.

Indeed, definitely felt a drop in activity on the site around the end of 2023 and accelerated this year. I'd say there are a couple of factors, but the main one has to be the rework. It's become a more clunky and buggy user experience with lost functionality (multi-quote, etc). With that loss of audience it can only demoralise mods who were already stretched.

You learn a lot about a place based on how they treat their worst, Prison & Thunderdome were an embarrassment to the site and should have never have been kept on once the site grew to more than a couple of hundred members.

Disagree wholeheartedly. Prison was a hilarious read. Not sure I ever posted in the thunderdome either but it was… interesting… nonetheless.

It used to be that there was a thread on the mods forum called "X thread needs a mod" or something like that. There, mods could let people know they're feeling a bit pressured, a big event (like an election was coming up!) or IRL stuff was coming up and they might need a temporary or permanent hand.

Other mods then could volunteer to help out if it was something that would interest them. Sometimes mods would nominate regular posters on their forum to become mods, and after cmods did the due diligence, they were reached out to and if interested, made mod.

I'm thinking out loud here, but I wonder is there a fear from Admin about making people mods? Like they might get it wrong? It's weird that there's no reach out at all for new mods. I can't remember the last sticky I saw that said, "Welcome your new mod, "X".

I also think the bar of what's needed for a mod may have been raised far too high in this crazy partisan times we live in. Like I said, I was a mod here for 20 years, I don't think I'd be offered the job again though!

I don't think it's gone, but you can no longer read it unless you're banned to there. Thankfully I'm not banned, I keep my nose clean these days. Not sure I ever had a siteban but I did have a fair few forum (non perma)bans back in the day. Boards is dying and I'm going to be around as long as possible, it's an important part of my workday and work process.