Management, have you ever considered an election to elect moderators?

[Mac-7]

I can think of one moderator on the left who should be removed

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I can think of one moderator on the left who should be removed

I can name that moderator in one note........

 

[Road Runner]

I can think of one moderator on the left who should be removed

I can think of two actually. One male and one female. Unless they're a shared sock account.

 

[Mac-7]

I can name that moderator in one note........

I think we all could

But there are no recall ballots on this forum

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

I was gigged and censored for saying "Democrat Party" instead of "Democratic Party I left and have never been back

That really bothers them for some reason

 

[Dogmaphobe]

That really bothers them for some reason

That's because they are authoritarians who seek one party rule, but wish to keep up the illusions that they don't.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Horse shit, they care a lot....That's why all the election fraud and J6 threads go to the cellar.

Not to mention the great disparity in the way they treat people based upon their views towards Jewish people, grooming children, or BLM.

 

[Oddball]

I was referring to the owners who are never here.
The mods, particularly one... well... yes, we know what he does.

Who do you think is setting that policy?....The ownership here is ESG all the way.

The "one we know" goes along in the callow pursuit of power.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Who do you think is setting that policy?....The ownership here is ESG all the way.

The "one we know" goes along in the callow pursuit of power.

Starts with T... ends with Z

Ate up with TDS

 

[Captain Caveman]

this place is so loosely moderated it is ridikilus

Are you Democrat, it's called free speech

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Are you Democrat, it's called free speech

He's a good guy.

......not a Democrat by a long shot.

 

[Missourian]

You have to choose between quantity or quality. You cannot have both.
This site obviously chooses quantity over quality by far, which makes sense, since it gets it's revenue from ads. Quality means fewer members and fewer posts, less ad revenue.
That is not going to happen.
A higher quality site, even though the rules are stricter, is not too hard to moderate. Because it keeps people who are more interested in discussing than throwing rocks at each other, and bans the rock throwers.

Just sayin

 

[WinterBorn]

Mods on USMB have it pretty good….

Six figure plus salary, private limos, use of the USMB yacht and helicopter, luxury vacations, kick assed Dental and all the Bud Light you can drink.

I can’t figure why they are cranky all the time

I was cranky because they cut too much tax from my 6 figure salary, and the limo is a 2009 model. Not even close to new.

 

[Gracie]

Anybody remember the time USMB was hacked, all existing mods were thrown out and impossible people installed in their stead?

I watched it happen when it first started. Gunny had a field day that night.

 

[Gracie]

I can think of two actually. One male and one female. Unless they're a shared sock account.

My my, how things change when two actually realize what a nutcase some can be and don't go along with said nutbar in their bullshit schemes.

 

[Grumblenuts]

And the is no hanky panky with fellow mods

I have suspected some hanky panky

My baby does the..

 

[Bleipriester]

We cannot elect people who don´t run. I run for moderator of the Global Discussion forum.

 

[Auld Phart]

Horse shit, they care a lot....That's why all the election fraud and J6 threads go to the cellar.

That's why all the election fraud and J6 threads go to the cellar.

they go there because of presentation, not topic.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

they go there because of presentation, not topic.

The metric being used is that if it involves Trump in any way, it stays upstairs if it is actually a false conspiracy targeting him (Steele dossier etc) and gets moved to the basement if it is true while exonerating him

 

[MisterBeale]

Horse shit, they care a lot....That's why all the election fraud and J6 threads go to the cellar.

they go there because of presentation, not topic.

The metric being used is that if it involves Trump in any way, it stays upstairs if it is actually a false conspiracy targeting him (Steele dossier etc) and gets moved to the basement if it is true while exonerating him

All of you are correct. IMO.

See, here is the problem. While we are are content creators, so, in a sense, we are users/quasi contributors, we do not own the site. It is not ours to really manage.

Part of how the web works, is through collaboration. . . i.e., ads. The only way placement of threads could work any different, is if the forum were completely run by a user subscription, if it were independent of any outside influence. . . but we are not.

This is my take on this issue. Since the site depends on the rest of the world wide web ecosystem, it must be responsive to powerful external political forces, by economic/political necessity, if it wants to keep its ad sources happy. All media owners keep this in mind. This place is not as wealthy as Elon, where it can just say, "GFY," if they don't like how threads are arranged.

I have been here a long long time, and have been a free thinker who has probably had more threads moved than anyone. I long ago gave up giving a shit where my threads were placed. I know it has to do with the advertisers, what is considered, "acceptable establishment doctrine," in accordance to corporate governance of the interlocking directorate.

The health of the forum, and the user base, THE BUSINESS, is always more important than silly considerations of where this thread or that thread is placed.

If you want your thread to stay in politics or current affairs, I guarantee you, it will, if you do not use inflammatory baiting language, and you use a recognized media organization which has close ties to the establishment.

I have told all of you, over and over again, what those are. If you don't know what they are, again, here they are, I have circled them on this chart, and I will put them here;

• Liberal & close: CNN / The Daily Beast / VICE News / MSNBC / VOX / The Guardian / The Washington Post / Politico / Wikipedia

• Center & close: The New York Times / CBS News / ABC News / BBC News / The Financial Times / The Hill / TIME Magazine / The Economist / USA Today

• Conservative & close: Wall Street Journal / Telegraph (UK) / Daily Mail / New York Post / Washington Times / Spectator / Fox News / National Review / Washington Examiner

The Media Navigator (2024)

The Media Navigator classifies 72 influential news outlets based on their political stance and their relationship to power. In many cases, the latter is more significant.

swprs.org

If you use Raw Story or Gateway. .. ????

. . . no guarantees in the end. Just making work for everyone.