Dispute with mod

It is very unfair for you to take a position like that when we have no process to appeal warnings or discuss them.

I believe some warnings were given in the heat of the moment, but look, I can't discuss it, so I'll stop there.

Happy that I still have the ability to register my thoughts on here.

I did report it at first via the report function

No need to gaslight me now

That’s the thing, the warnings clearly are not being consistently applied, and when one points that out you get more warnings instead of the issues being examined and addressed it feels like there is an attempt to punish posters

Which is just daft for a site that had such serious declines in user participation and visits

you basically created a subforum where mods can do whatever they want and not be questioned for it by blocking appeals or discussion

That’s daft

I asked on this thread if posts in this forum should be reported or if we should assume all posts are eyeballed by an admin and got no response.

There is a post on this thread from BBOC which appeared to suggest posters should not be reporting posts here which is why I asked.

It wasnt clear if they meant posters shouldnt report or merely that really there shouldnt be reportable posts here.

That was my hunch but given there was talk of site bans on the thread I thought best to be certain.

But I think in this thread we've had people arguing about, immigration, Trump, rape, trans issues, refugees, racism, the definition of racist, and someone being accused of being an antagonistic Man Utd supporter. None of that at all relevant to the issue of the thread.

Just on the racism thing, to pick an example. A user could say 'you get warned for calling a racist a racist, while they get to spew their bile on thread without sanction', which might be a legitimate complaint. But that invites discussion, if the thread isn't actively very heavily moderated, it's going to meander somewhat

You and others continue to have a laugh, why don't you. I see the posts. But this is what happens when you highlight issues on this site(my opinion), I thought it might alright. And I see other cellmates in this thread. Have they stemmed from this discussion?

Next threat from them is a temporary site ban. I've to walk on egg shells now. Someone mentioned coercive control yesterday.

I can't open a Dispute, even if I wanted to. But, as I've pointed out that system is a charade. But carry on, keep laughing, this is fine.

That's a really well expressed post. All conflicts have to get resolved in the middle ground, unfortunately some insist on taking extreme positions.

There isn't enough money to persuade me to volunteer for the thankless task of moderation (I'd be crap at it anyway). I suspect much of the problem comes down to the lack of resources. I had a sort of utopian idea of moderation being like what happens in tv debates, where mods could for example fact check. Acting only on reported posts means that one or other side can take the p1ss, and actually could give rise to accusations of mod bias, when they are merely dealing with what's been placed in front of them.