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Originally Posted by redwitch
Hopefully, there will be a few changes to it upon its return.
Suggestions:
1. Give each guest a permanent sign in number. This way, anonymity is retained but you know who is responding to their own thread, etc.
2. Prohibit bullying and racist posts.
3. Get a moderator. Ban those who bully and post the truly disgusting racist comments and pictures. They don’t belong anywhere, let alone on anything related to TV and TOTV. The banning should be permanent and include banning from the main site as well.
I love discussing politics. It was a mainstay in our home as I grew up. But what happens here is not a discussion. It is just ugliness to the nth degree.
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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
I would agree with these suggestions. I recall that Carl in Tampa offered himself as a volunteer moderator and he seems like a very fair person from what he has posted on the Regular and Political Forum. He did leave the Political Forum with disgust or it seemed like that because of the bullying by groups of people who often gang up on one person mercilessly. Mainly because they get away with it.
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The suggestions of redwitch are excellent, but can be effective only if banning of offensive posters, after
one warning, can be quickly implemented.
Taltarzac725 is correct that I once volunteered to moderate the political forums. A Moderator said the gesture would be relayed to the owners for a decision. I never heard anything further.
After volunteering to moderate the political forums I reviewed the multitude of offensive postings and realized moderating them by simply deleting the offensive posts would be ineffective because the hateful personal attacks were made in a frenzy of postings that would be extremely time consuming to review. Only banning the poster would be effective.
And with the technology of joining message boards using masked IP addresses, banning of posters is not fully effective in many cases because a new identity can be assumed by the offender. So the Moderator should have free rein to deal quickly with any posts that contain personal attacks on other posters. The political forums should be about discussing political issues, not insulting each other.
If there are no changes in the political forum when it returns, I will continue to avoid it.