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

Your opinions are consistently right of centre. I have never seen your express an opinion which could be remotely described as left of centre.

That's what it would take to consider you a centrist - a tiny modicum of balance.

will this be revised then @Necro ?

it’s gas it was thanked a number of times - it really shows that nobody reads anything 😂

How dare the mod be biased against antisemitism and islamaphobia?

Wait - what will be the bias then?

What is even the bias now???

Mod - Thread closed

Multiple mod warnings routinely ignored and the thread has, predictably, become another generic immigrant bashing thread

Very concise as you wanted, where is the bias?

We have an active immigrant bashing thread if you want to continue with that:

As mentioned earlier there will be new legally binding rules for social media platforms brought in this February. The owners of these platforms, which I assume includes boards.ie, will then ultimately be responsible for the content that appears on their site. Coimisúin na Mean will have the power to fine those companies for breaching the new rules.

It remains to be seen what effect this will have on Boards. It may be minimal, but it may not be. Will the sites chronic lake of mods bear up. In any case, it will no longer be "mod-bias" preventing you from expressing certain views, it will now also be the law.

I wouldn't be so sure. A real issue could be how long it takes to take down certain types of posts. I think everyone accepts that there is not enough mods and there is constantly a large volume of reported posts for the few active ones there are to wade through.

Ok, back on track.

My sum up:

1: Make life easier for the mod team, to encourage more mods.

How?

Mod beers! (joke!*)

But seriously, cleaner site charter, with links in the charters for definitions of words people may be unfamiliar with, (sealioning, trolling etc).

Work with forum mods and cmods to tailor specific fora charters.

Personally, I'd get rid of the DRP, have bans time limited to a week if possible. It's too much of a headache, and I don't really see the point in it. But if people want it kept, fine, but there should be a paid employee that should be dealing with it, not the volunteers, so it can be dealt with in a timely manner.

Get more mods. Stop looking for Goldilocks mods and start PM'ing heavy users that aren't total bolloxes (I am pretty sure I would be in classed in that category, before people accuse me of wanting to be a mod again).

Stop being so lenient with time-sinks/sealions/low level trolls. Your mods are your most precious commodities. Treat them and their time like it.

2: Get Odhran, or whoever the boss is these days to publicly state their vision for what they want boards to be. What is the mission statement? What's the purpose of this site?

3: Bring back netiquette. I know I ran foul over the last 24 hours. My posting was not of the standard this site should strive to be, so I apologise for that. But I hope the owners/admin can remember, this is the boards.ie playground, and boards.ie decide how users should play in it. If the users don't like it, tough. Move on.

4: Update this and have mods freely direct users who are posting below the standard to it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20141001203637/http%3A//m.boards.ie/vbulletin/faq.php?faq=bie_faq

5: Make a US Politics Forum. Maybe it will die on it's arse, but it would be nice to have a forum where the following threads could be posted together (for example)

• Strike Force 5 (Daily Show, Late show, Late night talk show thread)
• Project 2025 - whats it all about?
• The Trump Thread
• The Harris Presidency Thread **cough cough**
• The US election thread
• US political Youtubers thread - They could even have their own they're so popular these days.
• US politics YLYL meme thread (You always win)
• etc. etc.

6: Once the site is beginning to get sorted, bring back a voluntary subscription fee. I don't know if it's possible with Vanilla to have a subscriber only forum, but the biggest pains in the arse fora to mod could be hidden from non-subscribers.

7: Put out a monthly HQ bulletin. Just let us know that someone gives a hoot about the site and the community. The silence from the owner and management is absolutely deafening at the moment. It can be about the development of the site, any community news people want to share, congrats to winners of monthly tournaments etc, etc.

I still haven't admitted defeat with boards.ie

I think the enemy is at the gates, and it's sh*t or get off the pot time.

Hopefully, we'll know what direction boards is going in so we can make up our mind about whether it's worth sticking around or not.

*Not a joke. Mod beers really were the heart of the community and allowed the place to flourish.

I remember back when it was just After Hours and there was a politics forum there was an over zealous moderator who just banned everyone who didn't have hold their views it got to a tipping point where the site admins or someone in power removed them from modding the forum and that user closes their account (no doubt is probably back on here), that was back when the biased moderation issue was recognized and dealt with, shame we can't go back to those days.

You mean an individual mod, not moderators as a group. You do understand the difference?

What's the bias now exactly?

Many of the good posters like a German state head and woopsie are gone. And lesser by still noteworthy ones.

All that's left is an us and them.