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The Liveline threads are an example of modding gone mad IMO.

One day all talk of Joe speak is banned like "so to speak" then for two days before he retired it was fine to slag Joes weight and speach.

Then comes PBH and people banned calling him posh and posting stuff he said or was involved in.

The place went too left wing to go along with MSM that they forgot that unlike MSM they don't get Government money.

Then the Liveline thread was closed and a new opened where there was to be no mention of Joe who ran the show for many years.

Are you matching all subs?

Go WOKE, Go Broke, the left learn the hard way.

You are looking for mods to take sides. Debate or ignore. It used to be just trolling and abuse that mods rolled on and now it's people moaning that someone doesn't agree with them so they want them banned. Silly little things like "bad words" shouldn't be an issue on an adult conversation. It's also easy to spot a troll.

The soccer forum was atrocious prior to vanilla platform. Flame wars were a daily occurrence. Now it's CA which was an offshoot of AH which has that exact issue. Over zealous modding in fact feeds the trolls. Clearly biased.

AH is a mere shadow of itself. It used to be fun. You went there for silly stuff. For a laugh. And anything could be posted knowing full well it was mostly nonsense. It was fast moving. You could miss a thread in a few minutes from the landing page. No laughs allowed now on boards.

Vanilla killed the user base and the modding just compounded the loss. I would suggest mods names should not be the same as their regular posting accounts. Separate accounts so it's ultra clear when they have engaged and clear when their personal bias is engaged in their modding.

If anyone wants to deny the Holocaust, they're an asshole. But they should be free to say it if they wish. And I should be free to call them an asshole in return.

It's not against the law to be a dick.

For those posters worried that the whole place is going to fall down around us given some very stupid rules which encourages over enthusiastic modding has thankfully been disposed of- the list below still covers a multitude - the word “abusive” along with “otherwise objectionable” are included- that should cover the vast majority of posts that most decent users just don’t want to see on this site; including holocaust denials or indeed accusations of false photo shoots of Gaza deaths, or obvious “Russian bot” posts which has been mentioned.
The relaxation of idiot rules are welcomed but there’s still plenty of checks and balances to stop the site becoming Twitter

• post any abusive, harmful, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, indecent, profane, inappropriate, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable Material, except where the content is appropriate to the content of the forum and you have been granted specific permission to do so and subject to our guidelines on said content

post Material that contains violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website

What a useless post.