Hello JPP -
I'm a staff member from Political Hotwire. I occasionally join other forums to get insights into how other forums are run with an eye toward improving our own processes and policies.
Also, I have a question for a staff member, but there seems to be a ten-post minimum for sending PMs. I've no interest in spamming nine posts to circumvent this, and would be grateful if someone might waive this understandable restriction.
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anonymoose (05-12-2021), Drummie123 (05-12-2021)
Welcome.
Why don't you just give us your take a few subjects?
Or do you have no intention of being a regular here...
I wouldn't blame you.
It can be a pretty rough place with so few rules.
Personal Ignore Policy PIP: I like civil discourse. I will give you all the respect in the world if you respect me. Mouth off to me, or express overt racism, you will be PERMANENTLY Ignore Listed. Zero tolerance. No exceptions. I'll never read a word you write, even if quoted by another, nor respond to you, nor participate in your threads. ... Ignore the shallow. Cherish the thoughtful. Long Live Civil Discourse, Mutual Respect, and Good Debate! ps: Feel free to adopt my PIP. It works well.
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Blackwater Lunchbreak (05-12-2021), Drummie123 (05-12-2021)
PH must have some pretty strict moderation if it's been around since '05 and has such low volume.
It's a slippery slope. If there is excessive moderation, it results in low volume of posts. That makes it hard to build more participation.
If there is little moderation, it results in lots of trolling, but the volume of posts generated by flame wars makes a chat board pretty active.
Let's check it out...
Yup. Guessed it:
"You agree to not use this website to submit or link to any content which is defamatory, abusive, hateful, threatening, spam or spam-like, likely to offend, contains adult or objectionable content, ..."
That would rule out 95% of the posts at JPP and relegate it to being a similar low-volume site.
Personal Ignore Policy PIP: I like civil discourse. I will give you all the respect in the world if you respect me. Mouth off to me, or express overt racism, you will be PERMANENTLY Ignore Listed. Zero tolerance. No exceptions. I'll never read a word you write, even if quoted by another, nor respond to you, nor participate in your threads. ... Ignore the shallow. Cherish the thoughtful. Long Live Civil Discourse, Mutual Respect, and Good Debate! ps: Feel free to adopt my PIP. It works well.
Althea (05-07-2021), AProudLefty (05-07-2021)
It involves naming other users, and is the sort of thing best not shared in public. If the ten-post thing can't be waived, that's fine... This isn't exactly an emergency issue, and I'll hit ten posts eventually.
Per PoliTalker's post, one of the downsides of PH is that when the site owner migrated the software from vBulletin to Xenoforo, staff lost a LOT of access - including the ability to update the official rules page. As such, the wording has been unchanged for years - despite the fact that we've made tweaks to the "rules supplements" which are editable. Yeah, it's not ideal, by a long shot.
Many thanks, all.
PoliTalker (05-07-2021)
Personal Ignore Policy PIP: I like civil discourse. I will give you all the respect in the world if you respect me. Mouth off to me, or express overt racism, you will be PERMANENTLY Ignore Listed. Zero tolerance. No exceptions. I'll never read a word you write, even if quoted by another, nor respond to you, nor participate in your threads. ... Ignore the shallow. Cherish the thoughtful. Long Live Civil Discourse, Mutual Respect, and Good Debate! ps: Feel free to adopt my PIP. It works well.
AProudLefty (05-07-2021)
Quick question ... I just noticed that I was banned from this thread. This confuses me - because I'd never posted in that thread.
Under what circumstances can one be threadbanned from a thread in which one has not (yet) participated?
Does this help?
Who the hell saves posts over years?
Hmm... I'm getting the sense that when one creates a thread, the thread originator has the ability to levy bans against individual members. Is this conclusion correct?
Althea (05-08-2021), PoliTalker (05-08-2021)
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