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

I don't think that mod stepping down was anything to do with that thread, it was inevitable that this was going to happen one way or another.

Simply stating mods are biased is unfortunately like claiming a referee in football is biased. Easy to claim, much harder to prove. And those who run foul of the ref or mod or more than likley to complain they have been treated unfairly. At least on boards you can publicly challenge your bans and the mods have to explain their reasoning. Every form of social media has censorship even the right wing ones.

There is an explanation given in dispute resolution cases. I'm not sure how else they could run dispute resolution.

Regarding cliques again that is your opinion. I have no way of knowing if it is true or you are just unhappy because of how you have been treated by a mod. I see some threads here dominated by right wing posters, others by left wing ones. I dont believe one group has been treated worse than the other.

I dont think modding has lead to the decline of Boards. You just dont see many forums like boards being set up now, i just think the concept is no longer that popular.

I have. Including my own!

There should be a way to report these sorts of issues but like if a referee misses something in a match i dont think that automatically points to a systemic issues with modding/refereeing. I dont think mods are infallible and so there should a system in place to challenge these decisions.

I dont think the decline in boards is due to modding though. I would hate to see Boards go the way of twitter/X and have nearly non existent moderation.

That ban was unwarranted, but posts with opposing views are reported a lot.

Beasty acknowledged in another thread that reported posts are looked at, not the whole thread for context. You can see why a mod would action a post that has lots of reports rather than reading the thread to see what the context was.

The report function is being abused to silence dissenting opinions, that's as much as problem as the moderation, and it's easy to figure out who these serial reporters are too by all the invisible discussions on their profile. That carryon is trolling and should be dealt with.

See that is the problem with assessing the bias of moderation. I would believe the ban is warranted because that thread was plagued with posters every few days inferring that Enoch's legal case was related to transgenderism and not him breaking a court order or other posters using the thread to make general arguments about transgenderism when there is already plenty of other threads related to that topic on Boards. The thread became a bit of a mess which i think lead to stricter moderation.

Posters have bias, and Mods have bias. That is why it is hard to assess whether the level of moderation is correct.

How do you know why the poster was banned though? Unless they told you.

It could have been 'off topic posting ' or maybe just a culmination of a few different warnings? it doesn't look like something that deserves a threadban, but we are not aware of what actually happened.

It was discussed on the thread though, and some posters pointed out that it was a pity Enoch went for Burkery mode, rather than following the discipline procedure and challenging it correctly. It was also pointed out that the result of such a test case would have been interesting.

Yes, it was Enoch's behaviour that got him into this mess, but it all stems from his belief that transgenderism is an affront to his God.

I doubt it since if he was, any old Anti-trans insults would be allowed here.

I think that’s the biggest issue.

I attempted to engage via private message with two I cant remember if both moderators , or Admin and moderator on two separate issues and was completely fobbed off…. The posters I had issues with as of now today are repeating the same behaviours over several different forums and threads…having never been sanctioned / carded…

From the regs / charter on one forum :

1. The mods rely on help from posters to deal with issues in the forum. We encourage people to report posts (yes this one is in here twice).

Pointless reporting if nothing comes of it. I never bother reporting borderline or say maybe a one off OTT issue from a poster…. Might be having a bad day / week. It would want to be significant…or a serial repeat offender.

But, I’m at the point where I’m pretty much now in the frame of mind of not bothering reporting posts… no point in wasting my time….no point in me / us being asked for help in the charter when I’m not met half way so my positive experience here can be assured. it might get to the stage as is likely if the current trend continues….that I’ll just deem boards as no longer usable…. It’s getting close to being not worth the hassle if I’m being honest….

As I’ve said elsewhere ive been an admin on another music / arts / culture based discussion forum… like to think i did it when necessary…accurately, without favour, malice or vindictiveness….. and above all, evenhandedly.