Dispute with mod

Certainly can’t accuse the mods, and admins, of being “heavy handed” now.

I'm not cherrypicking anything, I'm just saying how it looks to someone reading the thread as an outsider, who as another poster said, has no skin in the game.

Wouldn't blame them if they stepped down, absolute lunacy doing this for free, can't even enjoy a bank holiday biccie!!

Resolved so effectively that the same thing happened again on this thread causing a massive amount of work for the moderation team.

Clearly it requires actual attention as opposed to being casually dismissed by people who quite enjoy engaging in it so don't bring it up thank you very much.

This was the definition of 'piling on' recently given in Help Desk by Ten of Swords.

1- Piling on is where two or more posters talk directly about another poster (who may or may not be part of the conversation) generally making personalised remarks about them

Eg. Poster X said this previously, they're clearly wrong/stupid/misguided etc.

Yeah I agree, Poster X is a moron...

Yep, look what they said/did here...

And so on. Do not discuss other posters on thread as this is often the end result.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122595871/#Comment_122595871

As I've experienced you engaging in this behaviour in the past I'm not surprised that you're happy to defend the practice.

The thing is, that type of carry on makes boards an unwelcoming place and drives people away from the site.

You might be delighted to see people you disagree with leaving but it's that type attitude that's driving the site into the ground.

If someone is posting something deemed unacceptable, there's a process in place to deal with it, you're a moderator, do you prefer to see the rules enforced or other posters you happen to agree taking matters into their own hands and derailing a thread thus creating more moderation tasks?

The purpose of this thread is to clarify rules and improve users experience and moderator workloads. Yet you as a category moderator are happy to allow people to indulge themselves, once their opinions align with yours which runs contrary to that goal.

its the usual suspects that have issues with the mods, i have been a member on here for over 20 years at this stage and ive never felt unfairly treated and rarely ever even had correspondance with a mod, except for threads where some of the moaners in here are involved funnily enough,

Maybe its a you problem not a them problem….

Or you just hold a position that is indefensible and 90% of people posting see it as such and reply in kind.

Plenty of examples of people posting ridiculous stuff but refuse to debate their stance in the thread.... using excuses of having people on ignore etc... those same posters are actually complaining here as well.

I think it is borderline trolling at this stage, the carry on in some threads. Harris vs Trump thread is a good example.... You can be pro trump every day of the year, but when you post verifiable untruths, be prepared to defend your stance in thread and with some facts as to why you believe what you are posting. In a lot of cases it's not ganging up but simply the vast majority calling out the nonsense.

I think a lot of posters who are receiving their first bans in recent times are actually baited into going over the line in their reactions, after trying to engage with so called "drive by" posters who come in, post some ridiculous stuff, leave for a while, barely engage in the debate and then swing around for round 2, and 3 etc

It reads like John Mclane complaining about being bullied when he held up that sandwich board in Die hard with a vengeance.