Very quiet in here

A thread was opened after a poster was complaining about the words posters were using.

Days later and nearly 1000 posts later and the poster can't explain their position.

I'm amazed it stayed open so long.

CA as a forum is one of the most tightly modded on the site. Posters aren't angels, they feel passionately about topics and if they could discuss such topics without going off topic \ being a dick we wouldn't need mods.

Unless a CA feedback thread is kept on a short leash with hands-on moderation, they tend to drift into discussion of the CA topic rather than the site \ feedback \ moderation.
Actual constructive feedback gets drowned out in that 'drift'. Sometimes it is more than drift but can also get heated and digs are thrown at other posters \ groups of posters.

This is not a pot shot at volunteers or any particular posters, but a reflection on how the forums are setup, how posters behave on social media in 2025 and I think with such a setup future feedback threads involving CA are likely to go the same way.

As to what can be done…

That either involves putting more demands on the mods\admins who monitor Feedback, shunting the Feedback threads into CA under its highly active moderation (to keep them on topic and insult free so more constructive feedback may emerge) … or reviewing the threads and taking Feedback privileges off serial offenders who end up "disrupting" threads.
Expecting posters to "up their game" - the same posters that need to be tightly modded on CA - is not going to shift it, given how many threads this has happened to.

Do nothing - it'll be a case of rinse and repeat.

Where did I say you said that? Link the post please. 🤣

I was referring to how the discussion on the thread being referred to would have had to be conducted if no mention of trans issues was allowed. The OP mentioned transphobia and transphobic comments - it would be difficult to define those terms without mentioning trans ideology for example.

My remark was no more snide than the one which prompted it i.e. "feedback is for feedback". "Thanks for proving my point" was pretty snide too IMHO.

There was nothing snide about the bit in inverted commas - here's the full sentence:

saying "here are the words I demand you to use / not use" with no explanation or discussion isn't very useful

That was clearly a reference to the discussion in the other thread which I mentioned in my OP here, and was to explain why I thought your response actually made my point for me.

Are you now willing to admit that you are the dishonest one, or at least that your post was factually inaccurate, and withdraw the accusation of dishonesty?

You're going to have to explain to me how this is some sort of "gotcha", which is what I assume you're getting at?

The thing is with that thread is it absolutely abandoned any pretence of feedback. It included posters discussing how they'd easily be able to identify transgender people in changing rooms and I'm very much toning down what they said. I just am surprised it was tolerated to continue as it was for so long.

I don't do gotcha's, and even if I did you wouldn't be the first target, by a long shot. I agree with most of your posts, and even if I didn't you seem to be a model of clarity and common sense.

The reason I posted as I did is that while you clearly see what you were referring to happening, any time I see an objective discussion on anything that might be trans-related e.g. the supreme court decision, men in women's sports etc, I see a fair amount of "they want to take away trans rights" or "they want to stop trans kids from participating in sports". There's a lot of misrepresenting going on, and when queried on it the posters in question usually brand the questioner as transphobic, take their ball and run away, or both. I'm not referring to you btw with that last sentence.