General CA trolls - it's embarrassing

Jaysus lads it's a Bank Holiday weekend, it's sunny and warm. Calm down, put the phone away and go get an ice cream.

So we should just leave. Message received loud and clear.

Yeah, i went and got one.

Think I jinxed it, started raining

Well Sod you anyway - I got the dog as far as the front door before it started lashing

Are you saying you don't bother staying on threads you're reading/participating in once you've hit the report button?

Because you can see if a post you've reported on a thread you are reading/participating in is gone or if there's a mod note/snippage and get some satisfaction from that. If it's still there, well then your report effort wasn't seen as worth pursuing.

At this point its a case of inventing a problem and then when nobody else agrees using it as the basis for a persecution complex.

No, I'm saying if a 'reporter' doesn't stop participating/reading a thread they will see the outcome of their reporting eventually (the reported post remains or doesn't/has a note on it/snipped)

I'm not sure if that's necessary a given, it was on the old system. A post could receive points and not be deleted \ have note added - the mods have to do that manually as a separate step.

Hasn't been my experience for a very long time.

Hence these days it's easier to fix the problem yourself by using ignore (when it works) and/or unsubscribing (partially because ignore doesn't always work).

Tbh problem threads will keep popping up on the recent threads so you can check back in see if there's been moderation. Or see if certain people are still posting away.

Anyway what I'm hearing here is there isn't a problem with CA or anything on the forum.

Yeah, I voted for Casey in that and also in real life. Was happy to vote for Higgins first time around, but he said only one term and I don't like or vote for liars.

Trans issues and racism seem to be obsessions of some here. As far as I can judge, most here and in the real world aren't that bothered about trans things. So when it's shoved in their face, they tend to resent it a bit. Very easy to overdo these things and get peoples backs up.

As for racism, again I'm not so sure. This is Ireland, we are Irish and Irish values and culture are important to us. Again I find most people are tolerant but not wholly accepting either that we need wholesale cultural change of our way of life.

So push back on issues like these is to be expected. Some people though don't seem to be able to filter those with reservations from those who are promoting hatred or violence. They have a 'if you're not with us, you're agin us' mentality.

My point wasn't anything about the strengths of Casey or Higgins. My point was that support for the far-right candidate Casey was doubled on Boards compared to real life. This supports the views expressed here that Boards users generally lean further to the right than the general population.

"I have to add that there is a bit of a "tell tale tattle" attitude coming across towards posters who make reports, even though it has been confirmed that reporting is encouraged and the mod team rely on reports. It really comes across as like being back in a school playground, where the class bully tries to stop the other kids from telling the teacher on them."

What this indicates to me is that you use the report function as a tactic, a kind of back seat modding. Where you don't care for other posters POV and so you report it. It's already established that reporting a post draws far more attention than to comments that are left in the swing of things. So maybe you need to rethink the bully analogy and also consider why you may not be liked as a poster.

Imagine reporting someone.

Do you want to go for an ice cream? 😁

In the last comment above, are you telling us that we are not allowed to read what others write on a public forum? Or remember what they wrote? Puzzled.

But amongst the gen population he didn't get anywhere near that so that would indicate that those boards users that 'bothered to vote' were more right leaning in larger quantities alright.

And would that be an indication of the leaning of most of the CA posters, or just those that 'bothered to' click on that thread?

This as my previous point.. Middle of the road boards users are switching off CA because of all of this right wing stuff.

Don't think its lack of moderation tbh. Its such an echo chamber that only certain posters who don't run with the gang get reported.

Then it should be extremely easy to quote a hate filled post then.

You're saying its not easy to quote posts?

You originally said that this thread is full of the type of posts the OP described as being common in CA.

If that's the case quote one of them for us, I don't think any posts have been deleted on this thread so your task is relatively simple. Prove what you're claiming with evidence.

Can you cite examples of these threads and provide links to back up this claim?