P&S moderator?

[OgNasty]

Bitcoin Talk seems to have changed over the last couple of years. But then I think society has changed as well, so it could well be me that has a different perception. Covid and the imminent economic reset seems to have closed the minds of the population, and I guess thus is the result of fear mongering by governments and bankers. We are now in a strange world where you can't start a speech with the phrase "Good morning ladies and gentlemen", and a political forum is a real minefield today. I wouldn't want to moderate one, unless it could maintain a publicly admitted bias.

I'm drifting away from the forum, as many of my friends seen to have left, or only post on the tech boards. I used to gain pleasure from discussing the situations in various countries, but it seems that too many people are frightened to appear politically incorrect today. Well as a mature, heterosexual, white anglophile, I'm not PC, and I don't respect the mindless and slavish pursuit of public approbation. In the end, it is up ti the members here to post and start threads that make the political board an interesting one, The mods can't prune a bush into an attractive asset if the bush is dead.

This may be a bit off topic but I agree. This place seemed to go through some sort of transition around 2016 where I don’t know if guidance changed or just the community was inundated with spammers and get rich types, but I think a majority of the users still here after 8+ years are more here for nostalgia than anything else. The fact that some users are allowed to harass and spread lies here and that’s fine, but if you have a political opinion differing from a moderator or you are suspected of posting to inflate your post count you’re silenced seems a bit backwards. There was a point when this forum was moderated by rules like “no trolling” but those days are long behind us. While Bitcoin went from the Wild West to a regulated mess, the forum went from a well moderated place to build projects in a supportive environment to the Wild West and the user experience has suffered greatly.

[OgNasty]

^ See what I mean. This place breeds negativity now. You can’t even have a genuine opinion about wanting an impartial moderator without being attacked by miserable depressed users. It’s a top down problem and needs to be addressed by something other than empowering a merit circle to give these people power over who gets into the default trust network or adding more ways like flags to negatively attack other users. Just once I’d like to see a positive change here not focused on breeding more drama for clicks.

[suchmoon]

^ See what I mean. This place breeds negativity now. You can’t even have a genuine opinion about wanting an impartial moderator without being attacked by miserable depressed users. It’s a top down problem and needs to be addressed by something other than empowering a merit circle to give these people power over who gets into the default trust network or adding more ways like flags to negatively attack other users. Just once I’d like to see a positive change here not focused on breeding more drama for clicks.

Uhm... you're the one "breeding drama" here and derailing this thread. I'm sure you're fully aware that forum moderators don't moderate merit or default trust or flags.

[pugman]

A moderator for each section would be cool let alone Politics and Society, it would rather make things more convenient for global mods. Or perhaps increase in the number of patrollers? Are they even still a thing I have nooo idea.

As for the forum getting negative, bad, etc etc- it's not just the forum. It's happening everywhere. Reddit, Twitter everywhere it breeds toxicity and unnecessary negativity because people still do not know how to take in criticism or anything else for that matter. Can't do shit really.

[eddie13]

The board needs attraction of more critical thinkers and people who actually care about politics related to Bitcoin..

It used to be that people who were into Bitcoin were into it for political reasons and now most are just in it for the get rich quick scheme..

The P&S board isn’t much but a late repeater of stories that break elsewhere, it is heavily loaded with posts supporting all mainstream points/propaganda to enforce modern progressivism/Marxist agenda, knowingly/purposefully or not, it is otherwise very low IQ other than barely a handful of others with half a brain who care to make posts questioning the CNNesque barrage..


I almost never report anything on the forum..
To me, the forum allows such massive amounts of low IQ shitposting that can barely be comprehended, that worrying about some things being off topic or trolling seems ridiculous..

I’d prefer intelligent trolling and breakoff conversation to the massive amounts of unintelligent blather any day..

[franky1]

can we all make a vote here.
no conspiracy nonsense should be an added rule of the P&S pined post
that way it makes life easier to challenge certain low IQ trolls in their silly PR campaigns.
it might even make them take a few seconds before posting to up their IQ a few levels before posting

i dont mean the anti-political mindset. i mean the obvious looney bin conspiracy nonsense that doesnt even have any logic in a conversation