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Originally Posted by RayPowers
Deleted a bunch of TomGoogle's new threads, as they were all but one endless rehashed previous threads.
Ship the censorship hate.
For one thing, this forum is not exactly hopping. The front page contains threads that are fifteen days old. It's not like a new thread is going to knock some hot topic off the front page.
And all internet forums have rehashed topics. They are otherwise known as the most important, most talked about, most relevant topics. That's why they come up frequently. It's about the situations people commonly experience. To squelch these topics is to squelch the forum's bread and butter.
And usually, each of these topics is brought up with a twist. A different location, casino, or circumstances etc. Rarely is a situation, and thus a topic, exactly like a previously discussed one.
So what now, is to distinguish this forum from the other one from which this was spawned, because people were sick and tired of overbearing moderators who micromanaged the forum and did things like close their threads?
It appears the moderators of this forum have succumbed to the very same disease the mods of the other forum suffer from. Boredom. When mods look closely at a forum every day, and find little to nothing wrong with it, they have to look harder, and find things to do, in order to justify to themselves the inordinate amount of time they spend looking.
The message they wind up sending to people though, is find something better to do than post on either of these forums.
When a lot of people get that message, and participation drops off, and it starts to affect ad revenues, maybe the management of these forums will take notice and try to do something about overzealous moderators. It is clear all these mods could use some training on what is good for a website, and how to moderate, or more accurately, not moderate, a forum.
If the owners of 2p2 chose not to invest in training these people, they will pay for it anyway in reduced traffic from disgruntled and abused users who just leave.
One of the problems is that the drop off in user participation is hard to quantify or find a reason for. Most users, unlike myself, will not complain. They just leave quietly and rarely come back. I'm sure there are already many thousands of people who don't frequent either of these forums anymore because they became disallusioned and disgruntled with some unnecessary action by the mods.
It is very disheartening to the average person to have a mod remove their thread. It is a statement that says: "What is important to you is not important to us. We don't care about what you care about, and we're not going to even give you a little bit of space or bandwidth to discuss it. Even though we have plenty to go around. Go search for a generic answer to a similar situation."
It usually doesn't take many instances of that to turn somebody completely off. People don't have to put up with abuse. There is a great abundance of alternative activities available to everyone nowadays. There are so many websites and B&M establishments competing for people's attention. It's amazing that this website is turning people away without good reason.
Last edited by TomGoogle; 04-06-2012 at 03:48 PM.