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I agree with you on the moderation but iirc there wasn't a 'community' in the initial version of Vanilla post migration. Usage dropped because it was very difficult to find your followed threads. If you just interested in one forum it was less of an issue. But one of the great strengths of Boards with the customisations was that you could follow particular things you were interested in across a wide range of topics from Current Affairs, to Bargain Alerts, Weather, TV, Cycling, whatever.

The wording is clear - money in, survive- no money in- die.

It would probably be prudent to even attempt to get an estimate via a poll of just how many people will contribute to see if it’s even worth the effort to do this -I can see posters being scarred off - monthly contributions are probably the way to go in the first instance but that means a lot of administration and a reliance people will commit each month

considering there are far less regular users than the 20k approx official figures suggest, even if 50% of the people who responded to the poll were lying about contributing, I guarantee you that you wouldn’t see 2000 respondents to that poll - ergo, the call for funds will likely fail anyway

I haven't read the entire thread but from what I could see in the first 20 or so pages it was full of posts about moderation and almost exclusively referencing CA. I think it would be safe to say that most of those complaining would have been subject to moderation in some form or other so it saddens me to see Boards bowing to the baying mob.

I suppose when you're looking for money you have to accommodate people and as a man once said .… never p1ss on the dog when your hand is in it's mouth!

Congrats, Current Affairs has now turned into a cesspit of conspiracy theories and atrocity denial about the Bucha massacre.

Maybe you'll get a few €50 euros from Orwell Road.

I'd argue navigation was broken. Bookmarks were broken. Links were broken. Subscriptions were broken.

They also splintered the forums into a million sub forums that you couldn't find. Then wondered why they died.

I had to quote your post 3 times before it worked. That's not customisation.

Jeez is that all? The add on has been a game changer. Hopefully the user is able to work their magic when we return to a more stock vanilla.

It is relevant to bring it up relating to the wider survival of the site.
It's one thing asking people to sign up, there may be an assumption it is Boards as it is now.
It won't be at a functional level (losing customizations that make the site navigable) or moderation level (at least in CA one of its most active forums).
Posters were allowed to bring up what they saw as heavy handedness in moderation as a factor against its survival.
Then surely I am allowed to mention that 'light touch' moderation could be also, where an entire forum charter is dispensed with at short notice.

Specific discussion\clarity of it I've started in a different Feedback thread.

If somebody is claiming an recognised massacre is a false flag or crisis actors then that's very much so a conspiracy theory cause it's very much so verified as real. The only country claiming it was staged is the ones who committed it.

But based on the current rules, it seems like such conspiracy theories can be posted. And it's also pretty apparent that the rules being thrown out the window is resulting in a huge quality drop.