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

Maybe have more updates like the one you just posted to keep people from wondering if it's all just forgotten about?

Who is this internal team ?

IF an individual mod has a bias they'll have that regardless of what username they're using.

It would also be easy to post a mod warning on thread under their alt account, having to switch between accounts on a thread is a big ask for volunteers. Once a mod does that they're going to be treated differently on thread, you see a lot of "You're a mod, you should know better/You wouldn't get away with that if you weren't a mod" on some threads.

That makes no sense to me anyway

I don't see any issue with mods posting as themselves

Having 2 identities seems equivalent to calling the boss by a different name out of hours

The problem, is that if a moderator shows a leaning in a particular direction on whatever topic they post their opinion on that is within their responsibility of moderation.. That is used as a stick when they then act as a moderator to some of those of a differing "opinion". Whether real or perceived, the user then is the victim of moderator bias first and not a victim of their posting style.

You could argue the reasons all day. End result people are driven out of threads, forums and boards.

I did a survey for work a few weeks ago, one of those 'employee wellbeing' things.

One of the early items for me to strongly/moderately agree/disagree with was 'I believe changes will take place as a result of the data collected in this survey', to which I selected 'Strongly disagree'.

It is no different here. The same problems have existed in CA since its inception, and existed in AH before that. We've had the same discussions and feedback threads again and again, and nothing has changed. More recently, with the site overhaul, we've seen good posters drifting away, and the problems becoming more condensed.

Whether through a lack of knowledge on how to remedy things, or a lack of effort, or just a lack of interest/care, it'll continue to slowly circle the drain.

In other words, "We're still looking into it".

The new accounts on CA that sonehow seem to be intimately familiar with long running threads?

And in some cases in their first few posts are tagging longstanding users?

And even openly admitting to being a rereg of a just banned account?

Credit where credit due to the admins and CA mods for their trojan work blitzing those trolls whether it was on the Russia, Tubridy or US politics threads. Must be a PITA for them but they stay on top of it.

On the subject of reregs, I understand the valid reasons for closing accounts, maybe because personal info was overshared previously, or access has been lost to the account.

However, I think posters who rereg and return to posting on long running threads, threads they were very active on under their 'old guise', that should be viewed with suspicion, and comes across to me as a bit dishonest.
I have seen users do it, not necessarily to avoid sanction, but their previous account on the thread was caught out in a porkie, or absurd argument.

Not sure what the solution is there… perhaps a duty there to notify mods… but I do think it should be approached differently to a re-reg done for sincere reasons.

And if posters on the thread call attention to this, it should not necessarily be viewed as back seat moderation, because the re-reg was done not to avoid moderation, but for underhand debating purposes.

Argue the reason? If you want to address user numbers then the reasons are important. Alot of users or their accounts at least are driven away because they dont want to be moderated in the first place.

Take during the abortion referendum. The number of users wailing about being picked on and being silenced because they were anti abortion. Yet afterwards we found out from one of the mods/cmods that in fact they (mods as a whole) had made a decision not to hold users of that persuasion to the usual posting standards as they would have banned so many that there wouldn't have been any/very few dissenting voices left.

Its all the same thing, consistency the lack of.