Dispute with mod

Never made it that far either thankfully. It's an important part of the workday alright, needs more users though.

If I remember correctly, the Thunderdome was closed not long after boards.ie became a bit more commercial, I think it's when Daft.ie got involved?

They weren't fans of Googling boards.ie and having Thunderdome threads appear. So it got the axe.

I was amazed it went on for so long tbh, think it was still going until about 2013. Some really nasty shite posted in there over the years, all under the guise of 'fair game' if you entered the place.

It's gas, everyone was giving out about a commercial takeover back then, how the site would be 'ruined' - I'd happily take that now!

It takes them literally years to appoint a new mod, they have been making that excuse year after year after year and still don't address it. There is clearly a gatekeeping issue that they won't acknowledge.

The OG dome was effin hilarious. People willingly entered "the game" and essentially anything they had posted on Boards was fair game. But thats as far as it went. The version that was eventually torpedoed was a pale shadow of what the dome actually was. In relation to prison, the majority of things i remember were multi account WUMs being questioned and caught up in their lies along with a decent amount of piss taking. The fact is if people couldnt respect the rules then why should they be shown respect.

May I ask, what's the carrot? Why would people want to help out? If the only reason is to keep the site alive when we have an uninterested owner, there will be trouble appointing more mods, especially younger ones.

I've told you why I became a mod:

Boards had a clear mission statement, "Now ye're talking", and it was a welcoming, warm and most importantly (to me) an inclusive site. It really was a nice place to hang out, have silly craic and It felt safe. A big part of that was who wasn't let in.

It cannot be argued that it is still the same warm, inclusive welcoming site that it once was. There's no way the amount of "anti's this, that and the other" would have been tolerated then. My trans friends do not approve of me still being involved in boards as it is seen by my friends as a hostile ground. But that's just a personal anecdote.

It had outside missions like Santa Strike Force, mods beers, a drama group, a cycling club, photography club etc. (Are any of these still going under the boards banner?)

Honestly, try as I may I fail to see why anyone would want to mod a site with no clear mission and muddled engagement from the top down.

I still think boards could be great, and could be a force for good again, but I also could be quite delusional about that!

Right now, I'm just enjoying it while I and the site are both here.

How about rather than continually making excuses about how hard is it, we make some candidates mods and then we pick a select few people to, oh I dont know, maybe "administer" the situation? If it doesn't work then de-mod them.

Pretty much every entity in the world has an org structure, right now boards is relying on admins doing the grunt work of moderating. This is not what they should be doing, the clue is in the name.

Access to reported posts.

Access to private forums where they can discuss issues with their co-moderators.

Access to admins who can confirm if someone is a rereg.

The ability to warn, ban, forum ban or site ban any user they like.

That's fair enough, but the context of your post was established posters none of which are fit to moderate apparently.

I'd also wonder about the effectiveness of the "tools" to determine reregs considering the site has absolutely been infected with them the past while and mods on here have commented that the lack of action against reregs, the rule change in CA has helped and is welcomed.

So deserved praise for that.

Just out of interest @Boggles, what do you think a moderator should or should not have access to in the course of their duties?

I don't really have an opinion on what tools a mod should have or could have.

My question related to information which suggested was been stored and collated about long established users.

Which has been answered.

Thank you.

From my perspective, one was asking a question, while the other was laden with implication and designed to “stir things up”.

Just my take, it holds no weight here.

If this were tik-tok imagine my disembodied head and hand floating around the screen pointing at the above post, nodding and saying "This".

I'd like to welcome you, but can't do much behind these shiny bars😅

'Approved views' - this is the type of conspiracy theory tosh the forum really could do without.