Where did everybody go?

[Imogen_77]

What happened to this forum? I used to be on here a lot more a few years ago, and then I lost my login info and had the hardest time recreating a new username, but now there is nobody here anymore. Threads are old and there are like 3 people who contribute. What happened? This used to be a good community. 

[basil67]

There was a mass exodus when mods put a stop to all the political arguing.  Also they started deleting disrespectful responses such as victim blaming.  

[Imogen_77]

Really?
Wow, that’s really disappointing. And also an interesting development.

If moderators are too involved, it can indeed kill a healthy discourse, and not many people are interested in handholding. I totally get that - that can kill any platform. 
 

And wasn’t there a political sub-forum? So that should take care of the political arguing: I mean, it’s expected there, no? People will have different viewpoints.

 

 

Edited 12 hours ago by Imogen_77

[Gebidozo]

2 hours ago, basil67 said:

Also they started deleting disrespectful responses such as victim blaming.  

This is the only thing that I truly dislike about this forum.

Why delete stuff? Just suspend or ban the user if they are being too offensive, but why delete what they post?

Deleting disrespectful messages prevents users from knowing who has been disrespectful by browsing their posting history and seeing nothing that would warn them.

Also, mods repeatedly delete not only the disrespectful messages themselves, but also the completely respectful responses to them. They basically cut out entirely conversations.

They also cut out and cast into oblivion interesting and helpful conversations that have nothing disrespectful in them but are somewhat off-topic in a thread.

I wrote to the moderators and basically begged them to stop doing this. I got no response at all.

This message is probably going to be deleted too

Oh well, the regular users here are great. Too few of them, but they are great.