is Politics and Society board turning into a lowkey Off-topic board?

[JeromeTash]

Sometimes I come across posts that to me look like they are best suited for Off-topic board rather than Politics and Society board. It gets a little confusing and there seems to be low or no Mod activity there. The Mod assigned for that board has been offline for ages.
Post like this have nothing to do with Politics and Society in my opinion, or am I being too extreme?

1. Do you take water intake seriously?
2. Beware of scammers.
3. YOUTUBE VS TIKTOK
and so on...

Thinking of reporting them, but I first need opinions just to be sure.

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The best that you can do is to keep reporting the topics that are not belonging to the right board. Moderators on this forum are not lenient about reporting topics like that, they act fast and move the topic.

Posting topics on the wrong board is common on this forum but reporting them has been helpful.

The thread links that you post are created by people we can refer to as newbies. Creating topic on the wrong boards is common to those that have just joined this forum. Keep reporting the topics.

[Ever-young]

Most members are campaign manager including project owners have already notice the politics and society board as somewhere which is filled with lot of garbage talks which anyone can just come a create any form of topic that they like, there are some good topics on that board but majority of them are just some that could have existed under a thread discussion but the Op will move ahead to create thread over it.

We can help in cleaning this board, if you notice any post which are not meant to be there you can either report them to moderators to move it, after they have checked if the report is correct or you can either suggest for the OP to move the thread over to the appropriate board that it belong, it might even be a currency related topic which could be for economics but most people drop it under politics and society.

[PytagoraZ]

Sometimes I come across posts that to me look like they are best suited for Off-topic board rather than Politics and Society board. It gets a little confusing and there seems to be low or no Mod activity there. The Mod assigned for that board has been offline for ages.
Post like this have nothing to do with Politics and Society in my opinion, or am I being too extreme?

Since the reporting is free, there may be no harm in reporting on topics that don't resonate with the board. Or you could alert the OP of the thread to move it.

Maybe because this board was not included in the campaign's calculations, it is less popular. I don't know why this board was excluded from the campaign... does anyone know why?

[Don Pedro Dinero]

Thinking of reporting them, but I first need opinions just to be sure.

Since the reporting is free, there may be no harm in reporting on topics that don't resonate with the board. Or you could alert the OP of the thread to move it.

Yes, the OP should not be too concerned about reports being flagged as incorrect, it is explicitly stated.

Do not worry about your accuracy too much; one accurate report is worth many inaccurate reports.

Maybe because this board was not included in the campaign's calculations, it is less popular. I don't know why this board was excluded from the campaign... does anyone know why?

It's a section where most of the threads are of low quality and I am not sure if it's because campaigns don't usually pay to post there or the other way around. The chicken or the egg. But there is some relation.

There are some trolls who spend the day there and then there are others who look like political activists with whom you know you are not going to get anything clear if you try to debate with them, but they will keep reaffirming their message although this tends to happen in political discussions in general, not just in this forum.

[yhiaali3]

Creating a topic in the wrong sections is common, especially for new members who have recently joined this forum. But sometimes even old members find it difficult to select the appropriate section because the topic contains diverse ideas.

I don't think it's a big problem, but to maintain the order of the forum, you can alert the creator of the topic in the thread itself (as many members do) or you can report it to the moderator to move the topic to the appropriate section.

[Husires]

Good moderation is what turns a board from garbage into a good section, and sometimes an exaggeratedly perfect section, as happened with the mining section, where there were almost zero spam.

Years ago there was talk about choosing a new mod for Politics & Society Who is able and willing to moderate the Politics & Society section? and Flying Hellfish was chosen based on the top 20 reporters in that section over the last 90 days. If you want to solve this problem, keep reporting and you may be chosen as a mod in the future.

Post in this thread if you're interested so I can see other people's comments on you.

Here are the top 20 reporters in that section over the last 90 days:

Code:

+-----------------+-----------------+
| realName        | Non-bad reports |
+-----------------+-----------------+
| Flying Hellfish |             257 |
| rickbig41       |              40 |
| Foxpup          |              29 |
| otrkid70        |              22 |
| LoyceV          |              15 |
+-----------------+-----------------+

[digaran]

So, when you can determine whether a topic is spam/off topic by reading the title, why would you bother clicking on it? If your goal is to keep a certain board clean from spam/off topics, yes it'd be great if you could report them as such.  Come on, taking water intake seriously has nothing to do with politics.lol
I miss Flying Hellfish, hope he is alright where ever he is.

[Sexylizzy2813]

Sometimes I come across posts that to me look like they are best suited for Off-topic board rather than Politics and Society board. It gets a little confusing and there seems to be low or no Mod activity there. The Mod assigned for that board has been offline for ages.
Post like this have nothing to do with Politics and Society in my opinion, or am I being too extreme?

1. Do you take water intake seriously?
2. Beware of scammers.
3. YOUTUBE VS TIKTOK
and so on...

Thinking of reporting them, but I first need opinions just to be sure.

Is really not easy being a mod so give them some encouragement, not easy as some of us see it. And it would be nice if new active mods are being added to help out too.
Politics & Society was having interesting topics and I sometimes wonder where they all flee to.
Those topics you listed above are just funny and I believe those doing that are clearly newbies. This is a type you need no permission before taking actions, like water intake? What's happening to some users in this Forum.
I ones opened a thread when I first got here and I got no notification such as this one you opened OP, that it was going to be moved or discard and up till now I have no idea where that thread went so if you see something that doesn't fall in line I just say take care of it.

[Bushdark]

Sometimes I come across posts that to me look like they are best suited for Off-topic board rather than Politics and Society board. It gets a little confusing and there seems to be low or no Mod activity there. The Mod assigned for that board has been offline for ages.
Post like this have nothing to do with Politics and Society in my opinion, or am I being too extreme?

1. Do you take water intake seriously?
2. Beware of scammers.
3. YOUTUBE VS TIKTOK
and so on...

Thinking of reporting them, but I first need opinions just to be sure.

Some of these topics are just too funny and unrelated to be in the politics and society board but sometimes I don't even blame the oginal posters because they could be newbies that had not been familiar with community rules and where they ought to make post and where they don't. The mods are not robbots or bots, they are humans like us that have blood running through there vains. Sometimes, mod will have to delete or transafer more than 300 posts daily making decisions whether the post worth deleting or not. If we see nay postbthay don't worth to stay for long, it's better we report leaving that to the mod.

[Majestic-milf]

Sometimes I come across posts that to me look like they are best suited for Off-topic board rather than Politics and Society board. It gets a little confusing and there seems to be low or no Mod activity there. The Mod assigned for that board has been offline for ages.
Post like this have nothing to do with Politics and Society in my opinion, or am I being too extreme?

1. Do you take water intake seriously?
2. Beware of scammers.
3. YOUTUBE VS TIKTOK
and so on...

Thinking of reporting them, but I first need opinions just to be sure.

Exactly what I also observed. It seems some posters are missing the whole point of the board and because it's tagged "society", they feel those kinds of posts are included. Maybe they need to be reoriented about what posts are deemed for the board? Because I dunno if reporting them to mods will curtail such and that would just be leaving much work for them (mods) don't you think?

[stompix]

is Politics and Society board turning into a lowkey Off-topic board?

That would be an improvement and a radical one!
P&S is a cesspool, actually no, it's what would come out of some mutated lifeform that would have been born out of a cesspool.

When you still have a topic like:
Elders of 13 inbred European Bloodlines house training their inbred children
on the first page among other such topics, it's a clear sign to just stay away from it if you don't have at least 4 years of 4chan training.
Nuking it would probably be 10000% better than getting rid of ponzi board, the spam press, and the useless bounty hunting boards.

Serious question, what kinky stuff were you planning that you felt the need to open visit that board?

[lovesmayfamilis]

This board is a place for some newbies to increase their activity. And many people use this.  If the off-topic section is not at all popular, then the section that discusses important events, such as the war in Ukraine, will be a good place for those who are not particularly interested in crypto or are in the first stages of learning about it. If we talk about the fact that there should be a policy of tolerance on the forum, as well as the absence of the spread of hostility between users, then this section is a direct source of tension that should have been extinguished long ago.

[edmundduke]

It sure is and its pretty easy to go offtopic there aswell because of how broad both society and politics are. Very easy to even accidentally go offtrack. And as mentioned by others, this makes modderating the board very hard aswell.
But OFC, some are obvious lol

[DaveF]

is Politics and Society board turning into a lowkey Off-topic board?

That would be an improvement and a radical one!
P&S is a cesspool, actually no, it's what would come out of some mutated lifeform that would have been born out of a cesspool.

When you still have a topic like:
Elders of 13 inbred European Bloodlines house training their inbred children
on the first page among other such topics, it's a clear sign to just stay away from it if you don't have at least 4 years of 4chan training.
Nuking it would probably be 10000% better than getting rid of ponzi board, the spam press, and the useless bounty hunting boards.

Serious question, what kinky stuff were you planning that you felt the need to open visit that board?

I have said for a while having the P&S be a cesspool that it is along with the other crap boards and posts that are allowed here is hurting BTC / crypto and this board in general since there are a lot of people who don't want to be near anyplace that allow postings like that.

-Dave

[Adbitco]

For long now i have never been active that much in that board to phished out those post, normally as an old and experienced user here whenever you comes across such post its either to get them reported or you comment on them to move it to the right section where they are properly valued than post it in a placed not necessary to post it. Like you said the mods aren't active so the best is to comment under them maybe when theymos is really sets to appoint some mods to handle that board then they can decides to be deleting post that are not really meant for those boards.

[hugeblack]

The simplest solution, in my opinion, may be to not count posts in this board (in addition to Off-topic) as part of the activity and hide the signatures, a model closer to serious discussions. Then, with a little management, this board will be a place for those who want to discuss these political, although I believe that the goal of it is to discuss bitcoin-related political topics not purely political.

Does anyone agree with this board description or am I wrong?

[Plaguedeath]

The simplest solution, in my opinion, may be to not count posts in this board (in addition to Off-topic) as part of the activity and hide the signatures, a model closer to serious discussions. Then, with a little management, this board will be a place for those who want to discuss these political, although I believe that the goal of it is to discuss bitcoin-related political topics not purely political.

Since we're in Bitcoin forum, any discussion should be related to Bitcoin, otherwise it should be moved to off topic.

But the thing is, if someone create a topic about politic or society related to Bitcoin, they can post in other boards because it's still appropriate.

Discussing China allow Bitcoin can be posted in legal board, discussing about Russian invasion to Ukraine and Bitcoin price can be posted in economy or speculation board.

I disagree for ban signature in Politics and Society board because this board has low traffic, banning the signature will make the traffic lower.

[BlackHatCoiner]

Recipe for shitposter attraction:

• Have an inactive moderator.
• Make signature campaign posts unpaid there.
• Don't take action for reports.

I must have reported several posts in that sub-board, but stopped either because with so much spam it was pointless, or reports were mostly ignored.

[PytagoraZ]

Does anyone agree with this board description or am I wrong?

There is no right or wrong in this discussion. However a campaign has the right to count or not on boards they feel are good for advertising their services. Apart from that, we are actually free to discuss on any board. This happens because most members prioritize the campaign over the discussion itself, in my opinion this is a reverse perspective

Since we're in Bitcoin forum, any discussion should be related to Bitcoin, otherwise it should be moved to off topic.

Who told you about it? In fact, there is a board for altcoins here so there is no discussion about Bitcoin. Should this also be moved off topic?

I disagree for ban signature in Politics and Society board because this board has low traffic, banning the signature will make the traffic lower.

You can do this if you have your own campaign. If not, then no one needs to agree with your opinion