General CA trolls - it's embarrassing

The OP paints a picture of a forum that is overrun with bigoted posting of all shades, where anyone who might be classified as marginalised is a target of endless vitriol of an enormous group of hate filled cretins.

Oddly the longest running and most popular threads on the forum are massively left leaning in terms of the posters who regularly contribute to them. The Twitter thread is essentially a "we hate Elon Musk" thread at this point, there's no dissenting view points there, ditto the Trump thread.

Generally speaking hate speech isn't tolerated and is sanctioned /removed.

I've had my share of frank exchanges of opinions with Beasty over the years but the notion that he and the rest of mods/admins are allowing CA to become a sounding board for hate speech is frankly bizarre.

Some people want anyone they disagree with to be silenced. The modern "left" have become enamored with the notion of deplatforming as a desirable method of silencing opinions they disagree with, which is essentially what the OP is suggesting.

The OP wants an echo chamber (I know, it's a cliche) and now they're throwing the toys out of their pram saying they want their account deleted because the site won't indulge their wants exclusively.

What's the point of a discussion site where differing opinions aren't allowed?

The picture the OP paints is demonstrably utterly apocryphal. Hate speech isn't tolerated here and never hs been.

Explain how all of these racist, sexist, Islamophobic , homophobic, transphobic, asylumphobic , you claim is the majority of the content in a whole forum goes unpunished by the mods despite all of the reported posts you and others claim and yet very few people in tens of thousands of posts haven't been banned or their variophobic posts removed

This thread is about trolls but this matter also relates to those who report people for what they consider trolling or other reasons.

My assertion is that there are those who take offence rather too easily and who instead of engaging or as well as engaging, choose to use the report facility. I take heart from Big Bag Chips advice that such matters are monitored and those who are too trigger happy are pulled up.

However it's an imperfect system and as Beasty says, many posts fly under the radar. What brings them to attention is the reporting. But what that implies is that there are many unsanctioned posts, simply because they were not reported. Reporting brings attention to them.

I admire those who attempt to mod the site, it must be both time consuming and limit their own participation. So my view, is to write and let write. I don't want to be bothering a mod just because poster xyz insulted or offended me. I can either reply to them or simply ignore them. Society is a big place with lots of views and many different ways of living a life. Why not hear them all? If someone is continuously pushing a very divisive agenda, there has to be limits but such a judgement has to surely be made over time. The one type of post that I think should be quickly closed is where there are clear legal consequences for the site. But other than that, let people debate imho.

Yeah I agree debate is fine, but these things usually cross the bounds of civility.

I doubt there are people going mad pressing report, if they are, they are trolls themselves, but if people feel something should be reported, then let the mods deal with it.

To counter that, though not in Current Affairs, the Wokeism of the day thread is by far the most popular thread I've seen sitting at 387 pages full of culture war nonsense. At least twitter thread is informative on some aspect of changes to the twitter platform and the Trump thread does give some news not just opinion.

Crazy though that the Harry and Meghan thread is 527 pages. I'm not sure how that thread could be categorised as.

Culture war nonsense is a constant in CA but the notion that one side outnumbers the other is not based in reality.

Not to mention veiled death threats/murder fantasies of others.

Considering how “that site” welcomes, and encourages, bigotry, transphobia, racism and anti-immigration opinions, perhaps banned users from this site could be provided with a link to it in their final warning message? Maybe they’d stop coming back so frequently?

For all the complaints several people make about how much variophobic threads and hate filled comments being made and threats to leave boards

Why are they still here if it's such a horrible,vile place full of mean and bold people,

If I don't get what I want I'm closing my account and never coming back ,

Bye then .....

Tantrums.

If people want to act like toddlers that's how they should be treated.

It's the negativity that drives me away.

Every thread on CA is about how everything is always someone else fault, there is always a bogey man, and the poster is always the victim of something.

It’s not that long ago that the Boards presidential election vote gave far right candidate Peter Casey double the support that he got in the real election.

In fairness to the mods they do delete offensive posts eventually so probably hard to provide the evidence. The argument at worst could be that the site allows the same posters to be banned from a whole host of threads for trolling and deletes their comments without banning them from the site. Threads in trans ideology eventually tend to get shut down and they seem to always end with someone saying outright that trans people have a mental illness. I definitely wouldnt go near CA if i was trans.

Where's your evidence?