: Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:36 pm
Marsdengiant wrote:
If we had had the current moderation lightness of touch 12-18 months ago this would have helped.
If the moderation was "heavier" 12-18 months ago then it was in response to the rise of posters that were simply not palatable to the mood on this board, any heavyhandness (if any) was down to the fact that some people simply would not respond to anything less.
And in some cases, even when people were given chance, after chance, after chance they still refused to change how they conducted themselves on the forum, they are gone now and touch wood things have settled down.
Though as a moderator, there is still the occaisional flare up of trolling, flaming and outright insults, but nothing of the scale previously.
Quite simply, I think we have shed the worst offenders, and the most easily offended and what remains are for the most part, the most construcive posters, and the silent readers.
One positive is that we remain an open and fair place where there is a clear structure for any issues to be raised and dealt with, and compared with other sub forums we are by far the most lenient and always have been.