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forbidden dialectics posted:I think the overall posting quality has increased significantly. D&D is a much more entertaining, informative forum to read. There are still a small group of prolific trolls who post almost nothing but odious garbage, yet seem to be immune from being probated. I suspect it has something to do with the different levels of willingness that certain users have to use/abuse the "report" function. I'm not sure if there's a solution that's good for the long-term health of the forum to address that disparity. Yes, posts that get reported are more likely to have mod action than posts that don't because we're more likely to look closely at them. On any given day there are typically two or three mods who are active and we aren't able to closely read all 150 new posts in CE and 300 posts in the Ukraine thread or whatever. Keep in mind that not too long ago astral increased the character limit in reports so you can type a more detailed report explaining why you think a post needs actioned and giving context. I know that's asking a little extra effort from users but it's very helpful on the mod side. To use a counterexample, there's a user who reports posts with simply "garbage" or "stupid garbage" which is not at all helpful. Not gonna name names but your reports might be actioned more if you gave us a little more explanation  cinci zoo sniper posted:Guilty as charged, kind of. I don’t believe there’s regular shitposting in my thread that goes unpunished (examples to the contrary would be appreciated), but I’m fairly hands off with people cracking jokes. The main reason for that is a large population of fellow Eastern Europeans in my thread, including, e.g., someone who had family members sheltering in a basement in Mariupol for weeks, with one of them dying shortly after being finally evacuated recently. Many of us are immediately affected by this war, and I do believe that cracking a joke, or having a laugh at one, does help both posters individually and to take an edge off the thread on the whole. I read most/all of the posts in the Ukraine thread but largely let cinci handle stuff. If there's a call for less shitposting and low-content posts I'm happy to help move the thread in that direction. And yes, submit reports. Especially in a fast-moving thread it's helpful.
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OwlFancier posted:If you want to have "debate" on topics like trans rights then the thing about debate is: only one of the positions is actually right. The LGBTQIA+ thread has been going really well. One part of this discussion imo is how moderation could handle that thread better/differently than the trans athletes thread.
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Gumball Gumption posted:It's a really noble philosophy but I think it also highlights one of the huge problems with D&D, we love having noble philosophy that has nothing to do with what's actually going on in threads. In the same way D&D aims to be impartial and moderated in a way that's non-political the head admin also has a philosophy that's pushing them to curate certain discussions and push out others. It's the same way 99% of the time D&D is just the liberal politics zone and everyone is very happy with that but you can't call it the liberal politics zone because liberal politics adherrants believe that their politics are just the way of the world. This comes up pretty regularly in D&D feedback threads and from an objective, quantitative view it's not accurate. If you look at actual posting traffic D&D is well under half US politics posting and US CE itself has a very strong left presence. Have a look at the top 30 posters in US CE: https://forums.somethingawful.com/misc.php?action=whoposted&threadid=3997306. About half of those are vocally on the left and post in opposition to liberals and liberalism. Last fall (before the war in Ukraine) I crunched some numbers on thread traffic and the UK thread by itself gets similar posts and views to US CE. If you combine the other non-US threads, US politics posting is well under half of the forum traffic, it's quite international. It's just that US CE and US politics in general produces most of the drama, reports, and moderation action. It's certainly not the goal of moderation to enforce a "liberal politics zone" experience. I'm not dismissing your perspective or others that feel that way since this is a feedback thread. It's not really borne out in the posting traffic numbers, though.
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Who What Now posted:D&D ostensibly has mods other than Koos but none of them felt like they were allowed to do anything about rampant transphobia that he ignored for days. Maybe Koos should just be a normal mod and not "head mod"? I queued ban+30s for both Aginor and Trollologist the same day they came into the thread with their bullshit and was going to chain probe until admins got around to processing the queue. Fluffdaddy came in shortly after and perma'd them. I'd have queued permas if I knew that was an option, in the few months I've been on the mod team it usually takes quite a bit of discussion to decide on a perma. edit: Aginor and Trollologist were also both harassing people via PMs.
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