Bristow9091 said:
StarOcean said: Yo, you guys going to do anything? I know you guys have seen the reports and are active. The people here have also reported said thread. It's a hit-and-run thread for the purpose of sowing discord on the site. I know that politics ain't a fun thing to deal with as a mod -but you can't ignore them. Because all these political topics have served as is a refugee camp for trolls banned from gaming discussion. There is no regulation or moderation for the topic at all. It's gotten worse and worse. Hire a mod that'll work on politics exclusively if you hate the topic so much. Either that or remove it all together. But, at the very least -do something. It's a growing cancer in this community. |
What if we're active but haven't looked at the reports yet? Or if some of us haven't been active all day due to work and are only just getting online now? :o
You're right with one thing, politics isn't a fun thing to deal with, but we don't ignore the threads, it may seem that way because we're usually slower with making decisions when it comes to political threads, but that's usually because we're talking about it ourselves and finding the best solution. It's not fair to just blatantly lock a thread just because people have different opinions to the OP, although I will admit that the thread you're referring to doesn't really have an opinion in the OP... I've only just seen the thread today and it seems to have gone off a bit, lol (I'm a busy guy, I don't see every thread, and the same will go for other mods I'm sure). It's also not fair to get rid of the politics section altogether, since there can be some decent debates/conversations in there too, and I think if we were ever to get rid of it, it'd only be through a community vote or something, not really sure to be honest but I imagine that'd be it.
Then again I don't think the politics section itself is the "growing cancer" in the community, I think the users that can't help themselves, refuse to accept opinions, and can't hold back while posting in there are the problem, and despite telling them to stay away from political threads, they never seem to listen...
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This thread will be have been up for two days starting tonight. I know you guys just don’t like dealing with them. That’s not a criticism though. I know the sorta bullshit that happens when you close or ban people in them. You get called names, threatened, spammed, labeled, etc. you name it. It sucks. But at the same time, these threads do need to be moderated better. We all know it. We don’t have anyone for that though. None of us are political commentators, we’re gamers first and foremost. But would it be a bad idea to get a mod who worked exclusively for politics?
I think the rules need to be more enforced or at least we need more rules for these kinds of threads. But at the same time I call in to question these threads existence due to the fact no one wants to deal with them. You don’t, the people of the site don’t. This is a gaming site, we aren’t equipped for political moderation. That’s why it takes so long to deal with these situations.
Also, that last part, ha ha... very funny