Site is a graveyard - How can boards save itself? [Threadbanned users in 1st post]

ITs both to be fair.

On the one hand, you read "you can't express certain viewpoints without being seen as racist/phobic and getting banned" - in which case you should probably kearn how to do it.

On the other I've seen 'threadbanned' a few times and thought, 'what, for that?' You're kidding?'

I think their is a bias towards left-leaning posters to be moderaters, and I say that as soneone who is left-lraning myself.

I don't disagree with you but that's not my point. Mr. Disco's post exemplifies the childish bickering that ruins discussions.

The majority of people on this site are silly, bitter, argumentive, highly strung know it alls. Post a question, get a sarcastic comment as a reply. Post a good constructive comment and get shot down (usually by a cyclist). Post a bargain in the bargain alerts thread and get told there's one available €1 cheaper in Timbuktu when using a VPN to order. Not to mention the spelling and grammar patrol lurking everywhere.

The site is infested with these people and I now come mostly to wind them up.

I'm sure there's a host of you biting your tongues as you read this.

Editing/posting is a mess on Boards. Has been since the change and now you cant split out and respond to different sections of posts. An insane decision from Boards HQ

Just to step back a bit, boards works for me for attaining knowledge and updates on topics pertinent to my tangible needs.

But the discussions are full of strangers projecting onto eachother. FB arrived and became the overt standard for ego inflation and projection, but the good utility value still remains here

The internet will never be as fun as back in the day when it was early adaptors surfed the wave of a new communications revolution.

Pining for that buzz is futile. Mods were fallible then as they are now, and I thought everyone posting in after hours then were as nuts as what we see on twitter and FB.

I know what you're getting at but surely once you try to remove posters ability to write of their experiences of a topic, then you may as well not have a thread or a site at all. Isn't personal experience part of the whole culture of a site like boards - now yer talking!?

Furthermore where is the relating of anecdote or citizen journalism if you like prohibited in any general posting rules on boards? Or in the specific form charters?

To relate that you saw or experienced xyz etc is not being a dickhead or being uncivil or attacking another poster or likely to bring legal action against boards. It is as you say better to focus on facts, so if a poster writes that xyz happened then this can be taken as a fact.

What's happening though on some threads is that the adjudgment of anecdote is being arbitrarily applied according to the moderators whim to remove posts, issue warnings and threadbans. I can't think of a much more damaging practice to the culture of boards.

Perhaps you can further this observation further up the line and have some sense brought to it.

Remember Thunderdome, FFS

You falsely accuse me of putting words in your mouth and in the same post completely make up the quote "I hate being a mod" and then argue with yourself over it.

Lol.

Well I'm glad of this thread, even if some what derailed on mod talk, I like hearing from the mods and their process and also posters giving good ideas

Never saw what the issue was with “re-regs” tbh.

How many of those "views" are by the same people? I know I check it regularly so I wouldn't be holding that as an example! How about getting the stats back of the number of people on the site at any given time? Why was the thread moved here?

I was just wondering why it was moved from after hours where there is a bit more leeway in discussion.

Fair enough, but a note stating that would help and stop members scratching their heads. A lot of threads get shunted around with no explanation which leads to a lot of the mod bashing.