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There has been a zero tolerance policy towards anyone challenging the people you're describing for the last year or so.

These posters have had free reign to spam that thread and antagonise other users for fun and as soon as they're pulled up the person pulling them up gets slapped with a ban.

It reached a point where you needed to have these people on ignore because any interaction with them could result in a ban.

Nobody should be free to be a dick to anyone, I've said for the last few years that all that's needed is fair and balanced moderation, not accepting crap form these spoofers and far left extremist types.

When the new ban system was introduced a few months ago suddenly there were one day bans and escalating bans etc being handed out for ridiculous reasons, things like "tone" in situations where it's not reasonable to cite that as a problem with a post.

The leaked posts from the mod forum were a serious issue as well. I get that mods are free to vent, but I saw my name mentioned by a moderator I'd never interacted with up to that point as did other users. The level of animus towards users was really over the top and it's a bell that can't be unrung. We know what their opinions are and that they'd like to perma ban a good number of us for the sake of not liking some stuff we've written.

If this place is to continue operating there needs to be a change in attitude towards users from mods/admins.

Bad behaviour shouldn't be tolerated but if you're finding ways to get at someone for some personal reason, you'll eventually run out of victims and there'll be no community left.

The site is much more than CA as I tried to explain in my last post. You continue to drag is back to CA moderation at every turn.

If you need to put posters on ignore as you don't like them disturbing an echo chamber maybe it's not the other posters fault?

You won't get banned for having a civil discussion with any other poster on this site.

I was responding to that topic in isolation.

Your own behaviour in the wake of the relaxation of the CA rules was a disgrace. You went out of your way to make a nuisance of yourself to prove some ridiculous point and you have the nerve to come in here talking about how things degenerated at that point and you only subscribed once the rules went back in your favor.

And I have been banned for having a civil conversation as it happens. I was banned for saying "bye now" at the end of a post which I was told was "sarcastic" and that my tone wasn't right. When I argued against that the ban was dropped and miraculously I was banned again for a post from a week earlier when I referred to case that was ongoing ("without saying anything about it, just saying it was happening). Thats Vindictive behaviour on the part of the mod in question. They were going to get me whatever way they could regardless of how inconsequential the issue, I was marked for a ban. That's not how a community is built and while boards is more than CA, that really isn't the point.

Current affairs are the biggest topics a site like this can host. If you're dealing with serial sh1t posters and moderation that's based on personal biases you'll never get the balance right.

I mentioned early in this thread that subscribers shouldn't be given special dispensation to be dicks to others, but at the same time the manner in which mods deal with paying customers needs to be adjusted to some extent. It seems that after a short change we're back to forum bans and thread bans have made a comeback without any announcement it would seem.

We need mods to stop the place falling apart but the balance isn't right and it hasn't been for a long time unfortunately.

Given your list of woes and insightful suggestions, is there any chance you could kick-start your proposed solution? I'm surprised that you come here despite hating it so much. Perhaps you could set up this Utopia you speak of instead. I'd happily pay a sub if you can make it work.