Discuss the state of the forums and find solutions

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curl-6 said:

spurgeonryan said:

The main problem seems to be that in the last 3 hours since my last post...the entire site has only post like 8 times....8....times. I don't think trolling and derailing are your main problem. We beat Neogaf back in the day, had game wise, had great users on here cleaning and fixing the site, many prominent members over the years. Now...on a Saturday, you have 8 posts or so in a few hours. That used to be night time here, may only get 8 to 30 posts over night, which was mostly from myself, but still people were around.

No it is the main problem.

Low activity can be fixed with constructive discussion; in recent weeks the number of new threads and discussions has risen, and if we can nurture this small flame it will grow.

The problem is that it is impossible to have any discussion about certain topics right now without blatant trolling and thread derailing, and the mods have apparently just given up and do nothing about it.

How off the rails are you talking? What's acceptable. Derailment happens everywhere, from Twitter to YouTube comments someone will get into dialogue that'll serve from the OP. Ya can't avoid that unless you have a branching comment system that like Reddit and putting the pressure on a mod to handle natural dialogue and choose what's acceptable isn't fair to them or the user they have to moderate. But yeah, I Agree if someone starts a lengthy argument that starts having multiple topics of discussion and are arguing for a page or two that's an issue but I rarely see it on here. 

There is one way to increase activity but it's really risky and that's to appoint new mods and a small stipulation that it's a mods duty to create threads, I see some already do this. Really risky though, could upset the chill vibes around these parts.