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

Maybe Vanilla is so sh1te it doesn’t allow for such notes in moderation 🤔

we can of course leave a note (by way of a post) when moving it. Seph left a note but didn’t offer an explanation for moving it as I presume he felt it was rather self explanatory. A feedback thread being moved to feedback doesn’t really require a lot of understanding imo.

I didn’t see original.

when I was modding I avoided (or tried to and likely failed times over) smart remarking as it doesn’t give a good vibe to modding, and just goes to convey a sense of superiority that is not warranted. As a mod are doing a voluntary job to help maintain a basic level of decency and are no better than any other poster, you are just in a privileged and also voluntary position to keep it going without unduly upsetting posters whose lives you don’t know about.

I made a woeful mistake when modding, won’t go into it now, but a normally very decent poster was deeply upset and I got into a stupid circular stance of defending myself when my then position was indefensible. A very good and empathetic C Mod made me see, in the nicest possible way, how much hurt I had caused and I apologised to poster and said I was completely out of order. I certainly learned a life lesson then.

I use my phone and generally stick to active threads so am not affected so much, I’ve given up on forums a lot and if I’m interested in something and want to see if there is a thread I Google it with Boards.ie added 😁

We are volunteers Oscar. I personally have today off after working 50 hours over the last 5 days with Easter etc, so my time has been very limited.
Im exhausted and haven’t the headspace for moderating much today, should I hand in my notice now?
It’s completely unfair to take such an attitude with us all collectively and to make such sweeping accusations. because you perceive someone to be a troll doesn’t make it so.

Like honestly this is the major issue with threads like this, they turn into mod bashing and THAT is why they are closed off eventually. It’s unproductive and just venting frustration which we all feel in one capacity of another. Completely unfair to say no one’s modding the site because we’re here answering queries from posters.

like Jesus man if no mod, cmod or admin replied in this thread you’d be complaining we’re not here!

Threadbans are not like forum bans, which absolutely do have time limits and expirations.

Threadbans are basically just being told not to post. It doesn’t stop you doing so. If I forum ban you then AH disappears. You can’t see it and you certainly can’t post.

From my own experience I’ve threadbanned several posters, who after a time have reached out and asked for their ban to be reviewed which has been done and in almost all cases from memory lifted as a result. Sometimes it is just a matter of giving you time to chill out and in future I will be more likely to issue a dated threadban (ie do not post in this thread for 72hr), rather than leave it open ended.

We deal with sometimes a lot of people everyday and unfortunately it’s impossible to keep track of everyone and follow up in a few days or weeks to see if they want to review their ban. If you want to then reach out to the issuing mod yourself would be my advice.

Look, none of us are very interested in making posters lives miserable, but in doing so we must always keep in mind the wider community. If someone’s posting in a manner which is upsetting the larger population they need to be sorted one way or another. But I’ve never refused to review any mod action or engage with a poster except in very rare circumstances where I don’t think we can agree to a resolution (in which case I will direct to DRP, help desk or a cmod as appropriate).

But as far as threadbans specifically go it’s not possible at the moment to put them on an automatic timer which expires after a certain length. But it’s a very good idea and it’s something I’ll keep in mind myself in future. Circumstance depending instead of just a threadban I will give a poster a chance to redeem themselves by making it clear it’s temporary.

It is not a logical way around that Furze. The logical approach is to contact the moderator in question, the Cmod or Help Desk if all that fails.

Re reg to circumvent the ban will just lead to you being permanently sitebanned, that’s really just the end of it.