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james2001 wrote: Sat 21 Dec, 2024 18.51 And, as has been said, likely the only reason there were so many posts about the same thing is because the thread is pre-moderated, so people were making their cpost with no idea how many other people, if anyone, had posted about it as none had been approved. So to tell people off for it is ridiculous.

Left Hand Man wrote: Sat 21 Dec, 2024 22.02 I think the admin just genuinely dislikes the people who post on that forum. Which begs the question: why bother running a forum in the first place?

Tardisrotor wrote: Sun 22 Dec, 2024 11.44

Left Hand Man wrote: Sat 21 Dec, 2024 22.02 I think the admin just genuinely dislikes the people who post on that forum. Which begs the question: why bother running a forum in the first place?

Which in turn begs the question of why post anything at all?

Left Hand Man wrote: Sun 22 Dec, 2024 14.38

Tardisrotor wrote: Sun 22 Dec, 2024 11.44

Left Hand Man wrote: Sat 21 Dec, 2024 22.02 I think the admin just genuinely dislikes the people who post on that forum. Which begs the question: why bother running a forum in the first place?

Which in turn begs the question of why post anything at all?

I think the forum only exists so no one else can have a crack at running one. Well, one or two have tried but the community's far too small to sustain more than one. And Pres Cafe is pretty dead as it is. Between the extreme over-moderation and certain posters being extremely antagonistic to anyone who disagrees with them, they've killed it. Long live Pres Cafe...?

Left Hand Man wrote: Thu 19 Dec, 2024 20.20

Inspector Sands wrote: Thu 19 Dec, 2024 12.17 I can understand why some threads like the GB News ones are proactively moderated, but the big problem with that is when there's something to talk about and posts are taking many hours to be moderated.

Today the mods are complaining about the 'pile on' of posts of the same tweet from a presenter who's been fired. Thing is that if it wasn't moderated in that way everyone could see that it had already been posted, and not post the same thing! You can't have a discussion when there's a 12 hour delay in posts

Their other point is about posts that are just a single link and little discussion. I can see what they're getting at, but when something happens it's often not possible to write an essay to contextualise it. It's a policy that's inconsistently enforced too, fine on some threads

The admin is an arse. That's all there is to it. They'll have no one left soon. Their loss.

Btw wonder what cando did to get banned? Did the admin finally realise they were actually Tim Davie?

Cando wrote: Mon 23 Dec, 2024 01.33

Left Hand Man wrote: Thu 19 Dec, 2024 20.20

Inspector Sands wrote: Thu 19 Dec, 2024 12.17 I can understand why some threads like the GB News ones are proactively moderated, but the big problem with that is when there's something to talk about and posts are taking many hours to be moderated.

Today the mods are complaining about the 'pile on' of posts of the same tweet from a presenter who's been fired. Thing is that if it wasn't moderated in that way everyone could see that it had already been posted, and not post the same thing! You can't have a discussion when there's a 12 hour delay in posts

Their other point is about posts that are just a single link and little discussion. I can see what they're getting at, but when something happens it's often not possible to write an essay to contextualise it. It's a policy that's inconsistently enforced too, fine on some threads

The admin is an arse. That's all there is to it. They'll have no one left soon. Their loss.

Btw wonder what cando did to get banned? Did the admin finally realise they were actually Tim Davie?

Why are you so weird. I don't even live in the UK but I can see weirdo misogyny a mile off

Blewatter wrote: Sat 18 Jan, 2025 21.12 The BBC News thread: where a harmless entertainment story on the website is enough to encourage a rant about how BBC News has lost all credibility

DTV wrote: Sun 19 Jan, 2025 14.10

Blewatter wrote: Sat 18 Jan, 2025 21.12 The BBC News thread: where a harmless entertainment story on the website is enough to encourage a rant about how BBC News has lost all credibility

To be fair, hyperbole aside, you'd have to be the most ardent BBC bootlicker not to believe the BBC News website has gone substantially downhill. I think it is perfectly fair to point out that 'soft' news and human interest fluff has significantly increased in prominence, including sub-'and finally' stories like that one.

And that's before getting onto that god-awful InDepth crap that the BBC absolutely should not be doing.