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Just a thought. I was an admin on another forum and we had a lot of problems like you are having in general forum with heated topics. What we did was to create a forum that the user had to register for and was only viewable to those users. It wasn't moderated Personally I hated it but it seemed to make the users and mods happy. Like i said just a thought.
Some times i need a back handed slap just to wake up.
My skin is so thick. My cat uses it as a scratch post.
I mod at 3 forums. 2 Linux. I windows / mac. They <windows/mac forum> have a boiling point section . Kinda like the General in this forum. Our warning at that forum section is
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Boiling point
Whatever bothers you...ENTER AT OWN RISK...
Don't complain, if you don't like it.
If you don't like, what you see, avoid this category.
Our board general rules still apply in this forum.
Especially....
...you will not use this bulletin board to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law.
All rules are listed here:<our rules url goes here>
KISS rules really.
One Linux forum I mod at anything goes. The other is no politics or religion allowed. Different strokes for different folks.
I bite the hook in general here when I am bored. I am grown enough to not be too insecure with the replies. It is just the freaking internet. So who cares? To quote John Wayne <I actually got to meet the guy/actor>
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them."
Actually I think the political threads are quite good fun and I enjoy reading them. Most of the people who post in them try to remain civil (as to the remainder, you know who you are!)
It doesn't matter to me It was just something the other admins, mods and users agreed to. Personally I just stay away from them. We had some troublemakers on our forum so things were always getting out of hand. But we had mods and another admin that were always involved so I just ignored it unless it was brought up for discussion in the mod forum. I hope I didn't step on any toes.
Thought I'd add that overall this is probably the nicest, most helpful board I've been on. I've been on several boards where people basically treated you like an idiot because you didn't know something.
A forum I used to frequent had a "members only", admittance on application, political discussion forum. It had a dedicated team of moderators, it's own special rules, etc - ultimately the over-policing and special treatment gave it too much focus and took up too much moderator time and at the same time inflated the worth and "celebrity" of some of the off-topic posters. Despite all the effort from the admin, it wasn't nice, it wasn't civil, there was favouritism from some staff towards certain characters, which caused resentment and it never got any better. It became a platform for those pushing a certain political viewpoint or ideology.
I suggest the current format here works best. And "if it ain't broke..."
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