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

Other suggestions were highlighting post of the day, most thanked post etc. Not certain whether mods thought this was possible with current tools.

Well, the thread is going down the sh*tter now, so I might as well post.

Furze99 - example of your stuff. The soap boxing is evident.

Bans shouldn't be permanent, that thread is an example of how the lack of moderation resources pushes for an expedient solution that has the potential to lower traffic to the site and drive it down the path of being a "graveyard".

That said if a new user arrives spouting hateful rhetoric or is clearly acting the eejit a site ban should apply as it already does.

If someone is being a nuisance on thread, something like a ban for a day or two could be enough to impose a sanction, calm the discussion down and allow the poster to come back knowing that any further behaviour of that sort will result in a week's ban the next time and say, a month the time after that etc.

Just looking at that thread it appears your thread ban was lifted and then reinstated?

That must be taking up a good bit of moderation time alone.

I'm pretty certain myself and other posters know why you would not like the single US politics thread to go into politics... 🤣

QUICK!

SOMEONE GET ME A QUICK PICK!

TAKE A PHOTO!

TODAY IS MY LUCKY DAY!

I agree with nearly everything that Nullzero said on a post! AND IT WAS CONSTRUCTIVE!*

2 day ban

2 week ban

2 month ban

Forum ban

Site ban.

I don't think Vanilla can lift bans automatically, so it would be a case of a user PMing the mod, to say sorry, can you lift my ban?

(If they were to PM and say, my 2 days are up, lift the ban, I'd be tempted to add a day on for being rude!)

(*I hope you can take this in the light-hearted way I intended it to be)

Chortle.

A sin bin could work wonders when you think about it. Would certainly eliminate a lot of hassle for mods.

Are Israel's actions not genocide?

Should complaints of this nature not be referred to Disputes?

Have you got any ideas on how to improve the site?

You feel it's turning into Stormfront after all, beyond bickering with people and bemoaning the owners of the site I'm at a loss as to what you're contributing here.

You are entitled to your opinion, just as people are entitled to their opinion of you, and with the greatest of respect, it's not possible to be the referee when you're so obviously partisan on threads often degenerating into less than civil exchanges.

I honestly can't think of another mod, cmod or admin on boards that gets as personally involved in heated exchanges as you do. It's a conflict of interest, particularly when you're making rulings in dispute resolution threads when you were bickering with the person in the thread they were banned from.

I'm not just trying to stick the boot in, but there is a serious conflict of interest there.

They made a particularly off colour post about the stabbing of those children in Southport that was deleted, not after an enraged reaction from users..

I received this reply that I screen grabbed from a post replying to them after the original was removed...

I know this isn't the topic at hand here, but that isn't a rational or acceptable response from a mod.

Yeah, I think this thread is done now.

You are the person whinging about pile on? Like seriously?

What's that got to do with the post you quoted?

Everything. But I doubt you can see it.

For any change to be worthwhile it needs to offer a better outcome for users and an easier process for mods that gives them less to do and does less to make them want to stop volunteering their time.

If escalation to Dispute Resolution can be circumvented it might be the best selling point of it as a concept.

Big Bag of ChipsAdministratorsPosts: 14,141 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭ 09-08-2024 11:22am edited August 9

Some posters are under the mistaken impression that Feedback is a free for all where they can personally attack and abuse posters and volunteer moderators with impunity. This is not correct.

You will not be warned in this forum for providing feedback, positive, negative or otherwise. But you absolutely can expect to be warned for personal attacks or insults on other posters, groups of posters etc. Phrases such as "you lot", lazy name calling, derogatory terms towards anyone are not feedback and contribute nothing to discussions.

Anyone warned for such posts in this forum will not have the option of DRP.

This mod warning seems to be forgotten/ignored by posters/mods.

When I last looked, personal attacks were outside the charter.

This is a thread about feedback in general.

Trying to hang peopleis poor form and the majority of people can see that.

How are mods recruited? I'm not asking for myself but if there is someone I'd feel might be a good candidate could I pm a mod or cmod or admin mod with that nomination so to speak

Good idea . Like the CA sticky but for feedback suggestions .

Boards just isn't as fun and lighthearted as before. Threads like "describe your first sexual experience with a movie title" and " I think my grinds teacher fancies me" were kind of what first drew me to the site. There's obviously real technical issues like the search function but the site has become far less jovial. When I said a year ago in the Biden thread that he was too old and senile I was met with accusations of defending rape and supporting racism. After the assassination attempt the number of posts openly wishing the assassination was successful and not being warned by Mods was shocking.

It's still good for things like the Olympics and asking questions about non controversial topics but there's lots of people on boards including some Mods who really need to calm the **** down.

Well, it's Vanilla..

Also, "most thanked post" is probably going to be something offensive.

7 minutes before this you are accusing a poster of soapboxing and their style of posting.

Here you are a few minutes later baiting a poster to come back to cause arguments.

Your post is a deliberate attempt to get a dig in at someone and to drag the thread off topic, it has nothing to do with feedback.

Maybe you should revisit your own posting style before offering advice on other people's.

This is a great example of what mods need to tackle, blatant attempts to cause arguments that end up spamming and ruining threads, tackling these would make things much easier for everyone.