Gd has died
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I find not posting rubbish is fairly conducive to avoiding pre-moderation.
GD - and the forum as a whole - has definitely been more active, but then all forums suffer from this as they're competing for mindshare with the rest of social media that has grown enormously.
I find that explanation highly implausible
Define rubbish, then ask 100 other people the same and see if you all get the same answers. Who gets to decide what rubbish is?
Well we seem to be going in a direction where everything is controlled, with things a PC minority don't like censored out of existance, which is quite funny considering all of the speeches earlier at the 75th aniversary of D-Day remembrance, talking about men giving their lives for our freedom.
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I think that most of society has changed, but you’re in the minority that has either refused or is unable to see it.
The mods, and they're usually good at what they do.
This board doesn't particularly strike me as PC-led.
And the freedom that men - and women - gave their lives for is slightly different to the 'freedom' that allows people to think they should be able to say whatever they want without consequences.
I agree that the behaviour a lot of online platforms are currently trending towards is worrying. The modern "town square" that is the Internet is under threat in my opinion, and thankfully, smaller communities such as this tend to be run with a little more discretion and sanity than the big ones. Putting a member under pre-moderation isn't done lightly, it involves far more work for the team so we use it in exceptional circumstances only and on a case by case basis. I'd much prefer we not need to use it, but at times it is the best choice and can be particularly effective.
The day this forum turns the way of Twitter and other "progressive" platforms will be the day I quit the mod team and stop posting. Inb4 "hooray, I can't wait!"
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Just LOL if you're an ex 90's party boy who did far too many drugs and know believes they're trapped in a cage created by THE MAN who is there to repress everything you want to do and that an internet forum which you publically stated you were leaving for good now moderates the very posts you want to make complaining about your freedoms.
Noobs.
Noobs.
Eh? Posts aren't pre-moderated here... at least not in general.
If anything moderation has improved dramatically on these forums - gone are the days of some overzealous mod instantly suspending someone for a minor infraction.
Forums in general have become less active as more people make use of the likes of Facebook groups etc... these forums are obviously useful to the store and I doubt they want customers or potential customers put off by someone getting a bit too keen with the moderator tools in the forums... on the other hand, if you are being pre-moderated then you've perhaps done something multiple times to the point where the mod team had no other choice.
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No one gets put on moderated posting without being informed.
In many cases, a poster will have received multiple warnings prior to this action so it’s hardly a surprise when we do notify them.
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Yeah more words are being starred out by the forum filters. E.g. I referenced to one of YouTube's rivals and it got starred out as I posted it.