Has boards became a totally one sided site.

So it's only the immigration threads the op has an issue with.

Anti-immigration people tend to be filled with hatred and frankly come across as very uneducated.

Funny, you will find most of them have relations living abroad.

They never grasp the irony in that.

This is probably more appropriate for a feedback thread to be honest.

Basically one mod in particular doesn't want discussion around immigration on the site.

He shut down the last immigration thread with a closing rant about an attack on immigrants for people sharing statistics from other countries.

He shut down a thread yesterday where people were discussing a minster before a few of the usuals arrived to drag it off topic and wait for their mod to close it.

The mod has basically banned a large amount of people who he doesn't agree with over several threads, he doesn't want them to have a voice so won't allow any other threads beside the open one.

Where a good poster got banned last night.

The current affairs forum is basically being run by a dictator with strong left wing beliefs who abuses his power to shut down anyone who doesn't align with his views.

You Go into dispute resolution and the fella reviewing your case is a left wing luny who spends his days insulting posters who don't align with his views.

Current affairs is dying a death and rightly so, I read every day as there are some great posters, but they only last so long before they are silenced.

Boards users definitely skewed right wing since the shutdown around the vanilla move.

If you are looking for feedback, I think you opened it in the wrong forum ...

Deep down, the racist loathes no one more than himself. You couple that with anonymity, loneliness and jealousy and you end up with posters who are simply incapable of contributing to any sort of online debate.

Of course I will have a say in the democratic process of this country. I am an active member of a centrist political party and vote in every election. Giving out about immigrants on a niche message board is the very definition of slacktivism. Complete waste of time, but the racist is usually a man of below average intelligence, ambition and work ethic.

Have you a source for your claim that 60% of the world's population want to move to Ireland?

The main issue I have with CA is the number of posters who are not there to discuss or debate at all.

They are using Boards as a kind of bulletin board for whatever agenda they support.

Continually posting untruths and even when challenged with irrefutable facts making no attempt to correct what they posted.

Flavour of the month, use to be SF thousants and thousants of posts, any welfare/ lone parent/social housing thousants of posts.

It's actually statements like this that show who's the uneducated

This is a prime example of why boards is dying a death.

People being banned while others get away with everything, posts being deleted and a mod that deletes anything to do with immigration so he can avoid people he banned from other threads to have a discussion, but all these people are pretending or making up these things you tell us.

This is the person you go to in dispute resolution to be impartial about your bans.

You are giving out abut people peddling the same narrative non stop, strange for a mod to want people to not post on the site.

If I go look up the gript thread and do a search for a childish word grift I will see you peddling the same narrative non stop despite claiming you never read anything the say.

I won't even go into your aggressive posting style.

You might have a bit of self reflection and realise your post applies to yourself.

Isn’t Telegram the platform of choice for racists to spew their bile and hatred? All bad spelling, conspiracy theories, low testosterone, bald heads and beer bellies.

The mods have made it pretty clear that they have no intention of being impartial, they are editors, not moderators.

Best leave them to their echo chamber.

Unfortunately this has all been done/discussed before and it won't be long before this thread is moved to Feedback or Helpdesk because "that's where it belongs" where it'll be lost to most of the users, wagons circled, and ultimately closed - optionally with promises to take it all onboard but in real terms I'm hearing that since the Dav days.

Having a mod be both judge and jury (in terms of the appeal process) is a ridiculous state of affairs but you'll be told that they are all volunteers, have lost lots of mods, and we're essentially lucky to have them. Rather than appoint new mods this will continue, and even if they do add some, it'll usually be from the same gene pool of existing mods they have already - fresh perspectives and new approaches is not something that's welcomed it seems.

It's also been stated in the most recent Feedback thread that what is happening is not actually moderating but just responding to reported posts. Essentially just a kneejerk reaction to a snapshot moment in a fast-moving thread/forum. That too is nonsense and allows the "process" to be manipulated and gamed by some, but again mods are volunteers, so….

I'm here mostly because there are still a lot of good posters and good information to be found on this site. There is an "other" site (which I believe we're not allowed mention the name of) that sprung up last year/year before and gained a bit of traction initially, but there is no real replacement for this site so that's also a part of it.