What's the point?

If AH should be funny, the Wokeism thread needs to be addressed and moved to a more appropriate forum. . It’s hard line, toxic and political and used to bash people, mainly trans people.

Nothing remotely funny or lighthearted about it.

I'd just like to know have mod warnings and bans gone out the window before closing threads?

Totally agree.

But If the forum declares it’s a lighthearted nonsense forum, then heavy stuff belongs elsewhere. Different audience.

Maybe with new mods coming onboard, traffic can be directed appropriately and will find its natural home and the site will benefit overall.

But it made enough sense to you so as to edit it.

One thing I hate is people telling me what I want to say, especially when getting the word out is difficult enough. A common enough occurance for me in real life

Thunderdome is gone, R&R is till there but you need to request access.

Private forums are now groups on the Vanilla platform.

That's not the point and you know it. Even admins and mods have to follow rules. I want to know if procedures have changed before closing threads? If not then the mod in question should ask before doing so if they don't understand the rules.

fair play to the mod in question for being open about this and changing but the fact remains that mods in general are overstepping their position on this issue. a mod is only there to police the rules and their opinion on the topic is irrelivent and should play no part in their modding. i have seen it loads of times where threads have been lock for similar BS reasons that have nothing to do with the rules. if people want a conversation on a topic then that should happen once the rules are met. mods should have no say in what topics are about. especially reasons like the thread was going nowhere or is boring etc. if people want a thread on someone cutting the lawn in febuary then leave them to it.

you would think that boards is flooded with threads that mods are trying to reduce numbers to keep it managable and not the way it is with rapidly falling thread and poster nos . mods should be pushing for more threads not reducing them.

To be fair I was the OP of the charter thread and I requested it to close.

The mod took time to review and instead of doubling down, held up their hands and said fair enough.

There doesn't seem to be a rule change being filtered down "from above" so charter doesn't need to be updated. The whole "doesn't have merit" got up my nose, but I think the mod is taking a step back and re-evaluating their decisions ,which is all any of us can ask to be fair.

The issue was resolved and I didn't want the thread to descend into axe grinding or mod bashing especially when they held their hand up.

I also didn't want the mod to feel they "couldn't" close the thread either. Another poster also asked for the thread to close.

As for the woke thread , can't speak for that.

I took Ramona Lively Pension's "has merit" comment to mean "does it meet the 'craic' rule", but it certainly seems to have been taken up as a personal insult by many.

Well craic is fairly subjective.

If a thread is active and non controversial I would say leave it alone.

It may not be a topic that you or I would find interesting or great craic,but to the posters posting in the thread they obviously do.

The good news for us , we can click into the thread say meh and go about our day. We're under no obligation to read threads from start to finish. We're not mods.

Even a thread filled with nonsense between two or three posters has worth, even if it's only to keep those posters distracted and away from decent threads 😂🤣🤣