Third tPF Town Hall: 4/22-4/23

[Cletus]

If you hit the Forum tab at the top left, scroll down and you can see when people are logged on or have been recently logged on. You can also PM him.

I can stay logged in for months at a time just by not logging out. That doesn't mean I am around or aware of what activity is taking place.

[Mister D]

How about a vip/mod oversight board run by elected representatives of the membership?

That's an interesting idea.

[Private Pickle]

I'm content. The staff took action against the most brazen trolls and that was, IMO, the biggest issue we faced here.

Still one left.

[Mister D]

I can stay logged in for months at a time just by not logging out. That doesn't mean I am around or aware of what activity is taking place.

It must be a setting of mine but the site logs me out when I close the browser window.

[Bethere]

That's an interesting idea.

It is, but a better idea would be the popular election of vips.

[William]

As a VIP member, I'm not totally sure if I'm allowed to post in this thread, but I just want to say that AFIK, there is a balance of right-wing and left-wing mods (maybe more right-wing now that Dr.Who has resigned, but they never let their political leanings affect their modding,) and all decisions are by consensus - so no one is going to be dinged just cos of his/her political views.

[resister]

One of the things that irks me, is when, after being insulted and trolled by multiple people, the pileon-ee gets TB'ed, while the offenders laugh it off, am I missing something? Other than that, no complaints.

[Captain Obvious]

State of the forum:

Moderation is great, no issues on my part.

Content, not so much. A while back I pushed expanding the "serious discussion" section and making a sort of romper room for all the junk. And I get it, how do you define "junk"? At the same time logging in and seeing a dozen "don cheeto" threads posted that day from Bo - how do I respond to that? Naturally I respond negatively like most people. Or I guess I could ignore it but consider the new member, a solid poster looking to find a new forum because that persons forum is just junk. Is that person going to want to post here when the majority of threads is mindless garbage?

That's my only beef.

Cletus is full of $#@! with his vendetta on moderation, my only other point. Sorry Cletus, grow a pair.

[resister]

One of the things that irks me, is when, after being insulted and trolled by multiple people, the pileon-ee gets TB'ed, while the offenders laugh it off, am I missing something? Other than that, no complaints.

My only irk ^

[Cletus]

Cletus is full of $#@! with his vendetta on moderation, my only other point. Sorry Cletus, grow a pair.

I don't have a vendetta against moderation. I just don't like bad moderation. Moderators serve an important purpose on a forum. Their job is not only to enforce the forum rules, but to do it in a manner that encourages discussion. What we have here are a bunch of chest thumpers who kill more threads with their heavy handed tactics than they salvage. The whole system sucks.

YOU could do a better job of moderating than what we've got. That shows you how simple it really is.