How to kill a forum

[riosleftsock]

Lock any thread that you dislike the opinions on, despite the fact that these are the ones that gain the most posts and generate traffic for the site.

Anybody is free to ignore a thread or not post on it, why do we need the constant left wing cancel culture behaviour of a mod who failed at 6th form debate class?

[BRANDED]

the kinda childish back and forth is tedious obvs

[One Sunny Day]

It does seem a bit weird to have a Reform Party icon and then immediately as soon as a thread about the Reform Party appears, it gets locked.

Here's an idea.  If you don't want all this political bollocks appearing (which I'm all for), then don't have icons that encourage them.

Pretty much. Also the main forum overview says it's for political bickering too.

[Lee Trundle]

It does seem a bit weird to have a Reform Party icon and then immediately as soon as a thread about the Reform Party appears, it gets locked.

Here's an idea.  If you don't want all this political bollocks appearing (which I'm all for), then don't have icons that encourage them.

[Hammer and Pickle]

I think a “take it outside” thread is a great idea. Let’s call it The Carpark

[Trilby55]

Step 3 for me 

[stubbo]

Said it before, Stubbedtoe is turning into Up the Junction on Kumb.

What did I do? I haven't locked anything.

Happy to discuss some of the ideas on this thread though:

1. Split the forum: I can setup an 'off-topic' forum...but it increases moderation effort (as inevitably people will post I to the wrong place), splits the forum, and results in more than one place to have to check (a bit like the tickets setup).

2. Combine all threads of a similar type into a single thread. Personally I don't like this. Should we just have a 'West Ham' thread, a 'News' thread, a 'Politics' thread? Takes all the nuance out and you end up with very few 'super threads'.

3. Leave it as is, let people ignore the threads they're not interested in, and step in when a thread goes 'off topic' for the thread itself or the usual crowd start bickering, or a post gets reported. This is my personal preference currently.

In an ideal world, we'd be able to label each thread as Football or Off-Topic, so that you could easily filter to show the type of thread you're interested in, without having to split the forum. The software doesn't readily support it, and I've done some investigation but it's a bit piece of coding work that goes way beyond what I'm personally capable of doing so it's a long way off (plus all previous threads would then need manually categorising, and again it would need people to 'self declare' the correct thread label.  Still I think it would be an improvement.

​​​​​​I've seen the Reform Party thread got locked. It wasn't me but I'm sure the Mod that did it has their reason (we do have more than one Mod afterall, much as it might not seem that way). And as said before, moderation is an imperfect science based on judgement also based around a set of rules.

I have been debating a 'Take it Outside' thread where any bickering/rowing posts just get moved to as soon as the usual kick offs happen...a thread which is a bit like the Wild West and you engage in at your own risk.  Not sure if a good idea or not.

Interested in this as a discussion though. It's difficult to be all things to all people on this and my preference remainsess is more.

[Mike Oxsaw]

If only there was a way to not open, let alone respond to, any thread in which you have no interest...

[Massive Attack]

Is this the 2024 adaptation of To kill a mockingbird?

[Leavemyarcelona]

How about setting up a separate forum for political threads?  Then people could start as many threads and argue themselves into oblivion whilst keeping the main (West Ham) forum clear of all of the bollocks?

We did have a off topic forum for non football related on the last one

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If and when this Board ceases to exist those left mithering over it will not be complaining about the locking of political threads being the root cause of demise. They will more likely point out that too many threads ended up with a regular bunch of twerps following one another around bickering endlessly, repetitively by unsubtly endeavouring to always have the last word.

[Alfs]

How about setting up a separate forum for political threads?  Then people could start as many threads and argue themselves into oblivion whilst keeping the main (West Ham) forum clear of all of the bollocks?

[Collins Wong - A Free Man]

surprised you still see claret and blue on this website, and not rainbow flags and blm guff.

 

[Nurse Ratched]

The political arguments on here go round and round. We all know where each of us stands on any issue or could guess accurately. I'm not saying there should be no political arguments, but don't see the point in having half a dozen political threads that all end up broadly the same. I think it would make more sense to have one thread for politics and keep it all in one place. And then don't delete it. If new political threads pop up after we've agreed we'll keep it to one thread, then by all means whack the mole. Keep WHO Tidy.

[Cabbige Savage]

Picjkle say it like soviet Polska republik. 

But no Q for bread.

Good times 

[riosleftsock]

But why? I'm perfectly happy to use a load of pronouns if necessary

[Mad Ferret]

Said it before, Stubbedtoe is turning into Up the Junction on Kumb.