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

Actually, it was a response to a post about the far right rhetoric on boards, which it is part of.

Its feedback in relation to the type of speech and posts that are being allowed on the forum. Criminalising of people is drip drip drip far right rhetoric. just more of the xenophobic and racist posts that we are seeing more and more of.

If you have an issue with a post you fell is 'off topic ' I think the procedure has been mentioned here.

What you, and others who share your opinions are angling for is an echo chamber where only the opinions you want to read are posted and anyone who deviates from that being site banned.

I told you there'd be one.

And yeah. The internet is a great big place with lots of room for everyone. Not everyone needs to here at boards.ie.

This place was once a lot more tolerant and liberal than it is now, and it was better and more popular than it is now, and a large part of that (apart from the old website being 1,000x better) is the fighting that constantly goes on because the rules have changed, aren't publicised and aren't as strictly enforced as they should be.

Another part of that is moderator numbers. Without clear guidance from the top as to what is allowed and what isn't in the form of charters in every fora, and actually having a group identity of what boards.ie is and what it stands for, you're not going to get those mods.

I volunteered as a mod for many years and was super proud of it, because of the boards.ie community. It happened that the community rules and ethos lined up with mine (most of the time) so it was easy for me to "police" the site, because I cared about the site as a whole.

Like I previously said, this doesn't lead to an echo chamber. There were many, many disagreements, but the level of vitriol between users was not there like it is now. And it can't be "substantiated", but we know it's there. We can sense it, and we can feel it.

Can we add

• No ableism
• No ageism

to that list please?

Have you tried to use the search function?

How is boards extremely left wing? It's a discussion forum where you see alot of right wing posters posting in current affairs and politics. You can see that in the amount of immigration and Islam related threads that are running concurently that were pointed out by a poster in this thread a while back.

Sometimes it’s hidden behind a lot of nuance.

Im not particularly bothered whether you believe what I'm posting. This is a feedback thread and hopefully some of what is posted on here, will be taken on board by the powers that be.

I will just point out that the constant barage of overly heated and personal points by some posters ( not saying you) doesn't help the site at all. It's draining. It's no craic.