Dispute with mod

I think you're confused. I'm saying them constantly describing my posts as ranting is incendiary language. I'm sure if I kept referring to someone's legitimate posts as ranting, I'd get warned for baiting, trolling etc.

The word legitimate is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

A lot of your posts here and in the DRP have been rants.

Thanks for that invaluable contribution. 🙂

Good points.
CA is neither Politics nor is it After Hours but in some respects it’s reflecting the worst aspects, not the best aspects of those forums.

Bad and all what The Thunderdome became, in the early days you knew what you got when you entered there.
After Hours similar - yes there was bitching and moaning sometimes but it’s was generally an irreverent easy going place. Politics, jayzuz, well if that’s what you wanted, then fine, it was there for you.

CA has become filled with people just spouting reams of text copied and pasted as if they were in politics forum trying to make themselves out to be some sort of intellectual guru on the topic - they’ve no idea how to engage with other posters or just discuss their opinions with other posters -it’s just im right you’re wrong now piss off - the only “humour” there is mocking other posters - the forum has no release valve - at least if a topical discussion is in After hours, you can rely on some clever dick to hop in and take the pizz out of those taking it all too seriously - that’s what I miss about the old AH - topical subjects discussed without taking ourselves too seriously

Why is it important that a mod of current affairs be active in current affairs?

As it currently stands mods don't look at context of reported posts anyway, so knowing the context and forum culture is clearly not a requirement. As such, all a mod needs to do is know the rules and action any reported post with regards to those rules.

Absolutely any mod could be doing that, even if they have zero interest in any of the usual topics.

Beasty says there are hundreds of reported posts that he needs to action himself. Are we really saying that somebody else couldn't thin that down by just actioning the obvious rules breaches?

I thought this is what the report function is for. If this was a normal thread, this would be against the rules to publicly call for another poster to be banned.

A lot of feedback threads seem to include posters trying to influence mods to support their grudges against other posters which is a great pity.

As an aside, are Feedback \ Helpdesk reports monitored I wonder?
Or is it expected that all posts are eyeballed by an admin?

I'd have a different view on that.

I don't think the evolution of the Soccer Forum should be held up as a blue print for other forums or CA.

In fact I think it is irrefutable that the Soccer Forum should be seen as a cautionary tale on what over sterilisation and sanitising of opinion can lead to.

You referenced 20 years ago, there was no better forum on the internet let alone boards than the soccer forum. It was if I remember correctly the busiest forum and main driver for new user registrations. All though that seems to be a negative now, I missed that memo.

It was fantastic, but not without it's problems for sure.

Even some of the mods and it wasn't just 1 were unashamedly biased, but that in a weird way kind of added to the enjoyment of the whole experience.

Unfortunately an actual vocal minority of users believed the adage 'Football is more important than life and death' - sic and the craic, fun and comradery was bait out of the forum to leave it a hollow shell of it's former self with any opinion that even had a whiff of controversary clamped down on.

It's no wonder it has been opened back up to the public again.

People with a ban on any particular forum can't flag/report any posts.

Not even on threads they are allowed to post in.

It may be due to Vanilla, but it's seems a little unfair that a post that would deserve a sanction would be allowed stand by virtue of the person that it is aimed against not being able to report.

If the user COULD report, then I wouldn't support being public about pointing out a specific post.