(Site is a graveyard - How can boards save itself?) Any update?

I asked that question a while back and the response is in post #6066 in this thread for what it's worth.

From that thread the suggestion that stood out for me to counter mod bias and the perception thereof was that mods would have a separate profile for modding and a seperate one for contributing like everyone else.

We'd only every see the mod profile when modding is required.

From that it seems the only action is moderation of the moderation. Can't say I've noticed any changes. I've no way of seeing an increase of site bans, and I just avoid the forums with the most problems. You reap what you sow.

That's what already happens.

I like the suggestion because it allowed volunteer moderators two hats so they can participate like anyone else without being accused of a mod bias.

I'd imagine it would defang a lot of thread drama. It was a suggestion from another forum that reportedly worked well.

my reading between the lines of the mods who replied to that thread was that if they had to mod in secret they wouldn’t do it as their reward for dedicating the hours each day to this forum was the mod badge.

Modding in secret is ridiculous. Forums need to be seen to be policed and rules enforced.

If it takes hours there's something wrong with the admin tools. The reporting system has been broken for years. Its the same problems but no one's fixing them.

Thats only partially true. No metrics on it, so can't say for sure. Can only talk about personal experience. I see experienced posters and new posters not staying. I suspect due to their experience both technical and quality of content.

I haven't seen anything different, to be honest.

I still see on almost a daily basis anyone with a new account who doesn't align with the handful of posters who own CA get called a rereg and abused.

It's not really a great way for the site to grow.

Thats disingenuous, nobody said all problems needed to be solved. They simply asked if "anything" had been done.

"Looking into it" is what happens before anything is done, they were asking what actually has been done.

Inactive moderators and merging forums, these things were brought up literally years ago. Its been years but apparently we're still in the "looking into it" stage. Beasty used to talk about the process for appointing new mods that apparently takes years to complete.

The soccer forum is currently on its 3rd annual feedback thread since the site change, the fact the forum is dead on its arse is yet again being highlighted but for the third year in a row the response can only be summed up as "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas".

You know who talks about ongoing processes? People who don't have anything to report.

Given how few of us there are, the old site could probably handle the traffic again…

I don't see the purpose of these threads. What changes.

I guess mine went over yours.

I think we've all been there when certain posters get away with blue murder for extended periods, or certain sides of a discussion. While other people have the mods on them like a ton of bricks, for very little, zero tolerance in fact.

While I have every empathy for the mods and I hear what Bag o Chips, is saying. I don't see changes, and I stay away from the threads and forums where perhaps I might. I avoid certain mods and their forums also. Life's too short. The site is so buggy it's unusable at times.

I think "Tell me how" OP about revisiting the main complaints and asking what progress is a valid question.

Can anyone explain to me why the quote button only worls 50% of the time?

You click quote, it scrolls down to the "Leave a comment" field but no quote. So you have to scroll back up, find the post you wanted to quote, click quote again, and it works.

It's very annoying.

Have to say it's laying on it bit rich putting the blame of the forums being quiet on modern youth or society etc, when even the oldest members of the site are complaining about basic functionality not working. Thats before you get into more subjective topics.

Though I will agree there's a certain mob mentality to reddit, that I dislike. A certain tabloid approach to discussion these days.

Not being able to copy and paste different parts of posts was the big change that saw a lot of people leave/stop posting. Huge fall off after that change.

Im going to echo this. Multi quoting being absent is a major missing feature, Quote working 50% of the time Ive already mentioned. I really miss the roll eye emoticon. You don't realise how much you use something until its gone. I dont know if its related to the upgrade, but Ive noticed an increase in the wrong topic ending up in the wrong forum.

I a member of multiple other fora spanning a wide range of subjects, and they have not seen a mass exodus as a result of modern youth or society. It was the month or so of teething issues, followed by month on month of basic functionality missing that caused people to stop coming here.

After that, its the bad pint of Guinness vicious cycle. 4 men go into a pub, order a Guinness each, it arrives but its bad. Maybe it was a dodgy barrel, or the pipes werent cleaned properly, either way, after one, they leave. A few more people, come in order a pint, but leave after the one. A keg holds 88 pints and usually in a busy pub, at least one keg would be used in a night, but because people keep having one and then changing to something else or leaving, it goes 2 days, or 3. The place gets a name for selling dodgy pints. That barrel is replaced, the pipes get cleaned, but the damage is done. People don't go there any more, which now means a barrel lasts for more than a week by which time its gone stale and really not nice at all.

I used to frequent the Information Security forum, just like the pub, the last post was from a week a go. So people come on here, but its a ghost town. Some forums, the last post is from months ago. They assume the site is desserted and leave.

The duplication of threads in CA is becoming ridiculous, especially US politics related.

On the front page of CA at this moment we have:

• Kamala Harris v Donald Trump
• Donald Trump Megathread
• Assassination attempt on Donal Trump
• ????? Vs Trump
• And a Joe Biden thread

I mean...at this rate what is the Politics forum for? There is one US Presidential election thread in Politics at present which is what should be in CA and have the multi thread, topic variety in Politics.

It just smacks of the lack of attention being paid across the site generally. One time those threads would have been merged, closed or moved. Now it just seems to be do as ya like on CA.

I've seen lads start a thread on a topic and an existing, active thread on the same topic could be right at the top of the thread list. You'd have gotten a card for that laziness 2-3 years ago.

It also leads to problem posters jumping from thread to thread to avoid threadbans and ultimately making a mess of possibly 5 threads with their shítposting.