Lads ye need to start advertising for mods

I absolutely hate that about reddit. I regularly try to look through the massively downvoted posts just to try to get any sense of a contrary opinion to the OP.

The site has obviously deteriorated over the last while, the 'upgrade' really exacerbated it though....but that said, I'd no idea it was as bad as it is at mod/admin level (from reading Beasty's comments.)

Beasty, you need (imo, with the help of the one or two other Admins who pop in/out obviously) to put together a fresh Admin team, be-it promoting long standing mods/cmods, and grabbing some active/positive contributors. From there, there needs to be an active 'buffer' put between the community, and HQ...a buffer that starts to engage with the community (at at-least Category level), and one that can start rebuilding the mod/cmod teams to a functional level again. Seeking feedback from category/forums levels is a good place to start, on what the community feels needs fixing (realistically obviously, given current resources) and to prioritise things accordingly. HQ needs to prioritise functional mod-tools, and then begin engaging again with the community, if even through a new/active Admin team.

It'll be a thankless task taking on the problems here with a team of volunteers, but until there's a strong Admin presence guiding things along, who on earth would want to mod any forum on the site currently?

Christ, that's a grim picture. To think there's no bridge between HQ and the admin/mod teams is, frankly, unacceptable from HQ's end. Obviously engagement with users has ground to a virtual halt in Feedback etc, but to the volunteers who run the site too? This is a site that so many of us have poured huge chunks of our time into to help it grow into what it was, only to see it pissed away, just isn't on.

What an absolute **** way to approach the mess, just hope it goes away? That lad at the top has a LOT to answer for.

Is this a job to you or a hobby? If the latter why do you bother?

Something I, personally, would like to see actioned would be “thanks” abuse and intimidation.

I, myself, thank any post that meets a certain criteria, ones I agree with, ones that are funny and ones that are interesting. Some of us aren’t on the site 24/7 so thanking posts is a way to “acknowledge” seeing a good post.

Other, more negative, users tend to use this as a way of dragging people into “discussions” they are not, actively, part of or to intimidate others from supporting those they are arguing against. The irony being that these users are, themselves, thanking posts they agree with.

Now, this isn’t something that would stop me from thanking posts but other users might well be frightened off when they get ganged up on in such a fashion and, as such, should be a “sanctionable” offence.

Never happen to you, O? You look through a thread, one you mightn’t have time to post in, due to having a life, and then your name starts appearing in posts by, very negative, users.

That’s grand, O.

I do the same but what I’m talking about here is other, more negative, users referencing that you’ve thanked a post they disagree with.

Trying to intimate users into not thanking posts or showing “support” to others they agree with. Just think it should be discouraged and worthy of a sanction.

Nobody over the age of 12 even looks at the "thanks" or gives a toss about them.