Are mods just giving up or is the reporting function broken?

I saw a post saying to PM mods with any reports...the only issue being you can't see who the f'ing mods are any more down the bottom of the forum.

I hope these "challenging times" don't lead to mods just walking away. It's a thankless voluntary job, unless those rumours about cocaine and hookers are true!

I've no doubt Mods have had a trying time since migration, personally I like the new Touch site, desktop version horrid.

But I would have thought reporting functionality would have been a number one Priority during migration , particularly given the liability aspect of certain posts. Some forums on here have become astonishingly hostile and some posts quite alarming.

The reports all enter a queue that doesn't break out reports by category.

PM's can no longer be reported.

Mod action on threads is erratic at best and the sanction system is still both unclear and often a sanction is applied to an account with no message to the user as to the trigger.

The shítshow that has been the migration to Vanilla with an attempt to reskin alá boards can surely at this point be held up for the failure it has been?

Rather than try an keep functionality that Vanilla was never built to replicate?

Ditch the skinning and the crutch, look at sites that implement vanilla well and copy best practice.

The move has already destroyed a lot of trust in boards staff, it has destroyed the platform functionality, the mod tools are pathetic, the growth in posting that doesn't just approach the line but blows past it? Is surely evidence of that!

The whole move has been one that is an example of precisely how not to manage a migration.

The VBulletin Boards is dead, rather than constantly attempt skinning efforts to retain the appearance?

Let it die, have a wake and implement whatever Vanilla does well to manage the disaster that is unfolding and evolving since this awful strategy of migration management was implemented.

OK great, one particular example was dealt with efficiently. That doesn't materially change the fact that the modding tools since the migration clearly aren't fit for purpose.

PI/RI has turned into a really unpleasant place recently and Big Bag of Chips and Hannibal Smith are basically reduced to typing at people in bold. Forum bans are no longer possible, I believe and it looks like cards are a thing of the past too.

Their job is being made even more difficult by the fact that PI/RI threads are now visible on the front page when they never used to be, so are attracting a lot more "randomers" than they previously would have. As a regular, good faith poster, I find that forum absolutely exhausting these days, so I can only imagine how the poor mods feel.

Well, if the responses you're getting in the moderator's forum are anything like what regular users are getting, I wouldn't blame every moderator for walking away. I admire anybody who's taking the trouble to stick around now. I get the impression that some in boards HQ never appreciated or understood what they had. Goodwill only lasts for so long though. We all accept that the Vanilla migration was a shitshow but there's now a doubling down going on with management. It's be far more productive if they were more open and honest with people and were on board with trying to make boards better.

At this stage, I have to agree.

The closest and most often comparable board in terms of traffic and forums and the one which would be widely known on here is DigitalSpy Forums in the UK.

It's functional and clean as far as I can see using Vanilla.

Boards really needs to pare down the categories & forums - they are massively unwieldy. Most of them could be merged into overall categories/forums and survive as threads.

The amount of patches etc to imitate precisely the old look of boards is a very big bottleneck to the resolution of navigation and other usability issues.

I was being generous - it's obvious that boards is being run on a shoestring. Niamh seems to be doing Trojan work but where's the backup?

It seems that anyone can say anything they like regarding travellers here, similarly the Muslim community. The facilitation of far right trolls is bringing the website into disrepute. Some of the posts I've seen undoubtedly cross the line into incitement of hatred, a criminal offense.