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ruggedtoast

I do hope this board gets back to its old self as well. I do think that the banning of a half dozen certain user accounts would probably go 80% of the way to solving the problem though.

Pobby

Perhaps there could be some way to get this " sock puppet " rubbish out of the way. Imho, this screws the forum up more than anything.

staffie1

Edinburghlass wrote: »

You're missing the point that there is no moderation on any of the boards

Are you saying that there are no moderators on the boards? I thought there were.

Edinburghlass wrote: »

if they are moved to the Arms/DT as if they are too offensive for this board then they are too offensive for MSE altogether.

Agreed - (Martin is the owner and publisher of the site - which contains all the forums and discussion within it, not just this particular board we're on now). That is my point.

tomterm8

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I do hope this board gets back to its old self as well. I do think that the banning of a half dozen certain user accounts would probably go 80% of the way to solving the problem though.

My experience as a moderator on another forum is that PPR does little or no good. It doesn't take a genius to work out how to get around banning. In my experience, some very thick people manage to do it.

ruggedtoast

tomterm8 wrote: »

My experience as a moderator on another forum is that PPR does little or no good. It doesn't take a genius to work out how to get around banning. In my experience, some very thick people manage to do it.

Yes but if the garbage they post keeps getting deleted and their threads locked, as well as having to sign on again and again, they eventually get the message and give up.

We're not talking about a lot of people here. It really is a half dozen idiots who have nothing better to do than try and wind people up on here.

michaels

I think it is extremely difficult :

There are views I find abhorrent but I am even more uncomfortable about proscribing certain views as unacceptable.

There are discussions that are only tangentially related to the economy but a lot of issues like politics do impact on the economy - look at the impact of Labour's turmoil on the exchange rate

There are posters who create new identities to post their viewpoints and there are others who worry more about exposing such duplicate account holders than about civility and the discussion

Are there any answers beyond the nuclear option of closing the board?

My only thought at this stage is 'don't feed the trolls' - be they racists or just wind up merchants, those who want the board to continue, myself included need to take a deep breath and realise that if a poster or posters are repeatedly posting comments that wind us up then it is almost certainly trolling and just ignore the trolls comments hopefully without having to abandon threads but accepting that some relevant threads will need to be reported.

MisKool, I don't know how to advise you - I like others value your input but I can see why those who you have needed to moderate may feel that it is 'unfair' that you can both move/delete posts and take part in the debate. My preferred course would be for you to carry on posting and for those in this position to recognise this is just an online discussion and you are only doing what you think best and putting considerable effort in to doing so for no reward.

StevieJ

tomterm8 wrote: »

My experience as a moderator on another forum is that PPR does little or no good. It doesn't take a genius to work out how to get around banning. In my experience, some very thick people manage to do it.

If you ask for a primary email address e.g. O2 or BT instead of Yahoo or Hotmail, would that not sort it?

ess0two

StevieJ wrote: »

If you ask for a primary email address e.g. O2 or BT instead of Yahoo or Hotmail, would that not sort it?

Yeah, ban free email addys should narrow it down.

lostinrates

StevieJ wrote: »

If you ask for a primary email address e.g. O2 or BT instead of Yahoo or Hotmail, would that not sort it?

Ooops, I'll be off. I only have hotmail.

ess0two

lostinrates wrote: »

Ooops, I'll be off. I only have hotmail.

You must access the web via a provider,virgin,tiscali,bt,orange the list is endless.