Politics and stuff

[Bruce Wayne]

As some of the longer term members know, we've had long-running discussions about the merits of political threads on GOT as they tend to result in disagreements and in-fighting amongst Blues.

They, and other similarly 'hot' topics, do tend to be discussed however, so we're going to trial putting them all into the upgraded member lounge, where moderation is more relaxed on account of it being primarily used by members who have shown a willingness to support the site.

Threads that will be put there include topics such as politics, religion, guns and so on. Any existing threads on these topics will be moved over to the upgraded lounge by Sunday evening.

 

[Kiwi]

Politics has retreated to its safe space where talk is safe and without controvercy. And by controvercy I mean opposite view.
Enjoy your lemmings like Trump bashing threads up there.

Bye.

See ya Finners.

 

[The_Rat]

Wouldn't be surprised if Trump tweets a link to this thread when he wakes up and hoping it catches on.

 

[TheFinnFan]

See ya Finners.

C ya Kiwi

 

[TheFinnFan]

This ofcourse means ALL POLITICAL THREADS are moved to upgrade lounge.
EU threads
brexits
shooting threads

 

[Bruce Wayne]

This ofcourse means ALL POLITICAL THREADS are moved to upgrade lounge.
EU threads
brexits
shooting threads

I do hope you're not crying in the morning mate

 

[TheFinnFan]

I do hope you're not crying in the morning mate

lol

 

[TheFinnFan]

I do hope you're not crying in the morning mate

Seriously though...Im dissapointed but like a good trooper I accept the decision eventhough it's clearly wrong.

 

[BigDunc'sFod]

Just create a politics corner or debate forum for the mutants

 

[BigDunc'sFod]

(Neg) rep went for two reasons. Firstly, the forum software stopped supporting it, so we'd have been left with a vulnerable plug-in from a security perspective. To my knowledge, it isn't a functionality that has been re-built by the dev community surrounding our forum software either, so it would need us to hire a developer specifically to build and maintain it just for us. Secondly, it became something that was abused by some to use their strong 'neg powers' to blitz the reputation of new members, which isn't what it's designed for. It created a situation whereby I'm not sure it would have been restored even if the software did exist (which it doesn't).

How much would it cost to bring it back

 

[BigDunc'sFod]

Yea, I get that, but when Danny asked for volunteers to moderate the place last month I'd wager that very few ( if any ) of the folk on here PM'd him.

GOT being boss is a mixture of boss posters and boss moderators. If posters aren't willing to volunteer their time to moderate the place then they're on shaky ground when they start to complain about feedback from the mod team, and though this idea that Bruce is floating is as much a surprise to me as it is to you, I'm sure it will have been discussed in length in mod central and is something they've agreed as a team, because that's how it works.

Honestly mate, if you volunteer for mod doesn't that look pretentious and assume a lot?

I'm sure people would be happy to help out moderating if they were approached (or if there was some criteria of some kind transparent), but relying on people to PM the site owner before they are considered seems a shallow net to cast if you're looking to increase the team.

That being said if what you want is for mods to be folks that really, really want to mod as opposed to just bring happy to mod if approached then it makes a bit more sense but as I say I think the pool is smaller.

 

[Number_25]

I can have a hack around this weekend to see about fiddling a neg-rep system, if you want?

 

[Number_25]

Also I know XenForo fairly well, having done some administration on it for a few years. It's utter poop in terms of custom extensibility.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

I can have a hack around this weekend to see about fiddling a neg-rep system, if you want?

We're a regular target so it needs to be compliant/secure.

If you have the ability to do so, create one and you'll earn a few quid over on XenForo.

 

[Efcjake]

Hi lads.

I knew searching your posts was the quickest way to find the source of this weekend's controversy.

 

[Efcjake]

After reading the entire thread I think @GrandOldTeam has the right idea with the suggestion to just place all politics stuff in a separate forum for that stuff with many warnings about what posters are walking into. I can understand the criticisms of @Bruce Wayne and that it must be a hassle to moderate those threads but I think the idea to place them in the UG forum isn't the right one. Either ban it all entirely or if the issue is with high-maintenance modding then lob it in there with instructions that only things like swearing are going to be removed.

So in short, can we please stop whinging and hitting report or name-calling if you don't agree with someone. Scroll down and get on with your day.