The bullying on these forums is concerning

[Curisu]

It's not about bullying but more the lack of moderation on the forum.

There are new provoking or misleading threads every day and no one stops them.

If we had a moderator who takes a daily look into the forum and straight up just closes them and banns the "trolls".

[Iscah]

It's not about bullying but more the lack of moderation on the forum.

There are new provoking or misleading threads every day and no one stops them.

If we had a moderator who takes a daily look into the forum and straight up just closes them and banns the "trolls".

Prettymuch. We need a moderator who watches the large scale of what's happening on the forum and can recognise patterns of behaviour, not just judge a single isolated post. Give warnings, lock threads if they're getting out of hand, make sure people understand the rules. Literally, moderating the discussion.

[DamianFatale]

Prettymuch. We need a moderator who watches the large scale of what's happening on the forum and can recognise patterns of behaviour, not just judge a single isolated post. Give warnings, lock threads if they're getting out of hand, make sure people understand the rules. Literally, moderating the discussion.

They need to do that, but also let the right amount of tensions happen. Not all tensions need to be dealt with, because a little bit of natural tension that goes away on its own is absolutely healthy. I agree with what you said though. It's time that the moderators step back into the forums.

The question is, will they? Many years ago we had a forum crisis where they weren't do TOO MUCH, so they took a step back, and that was basically fine for awhile. People applauded it, but now that isn't working. The fandom has got way too big for that.

[Iscah]

They need to do that, but also let the right amount of tensions happen. Not all tensions need to be dealt with, because a little bit of natural tension that goes away on its own is absolutely healthy.

Of course - it's still a forum debate. People are going to take sides. It's a moderator's job to step in when it stops being civil and/or people are being disruptive, not just because people are disagreeing with each other.

[Kolsykol]

Prettymuch. We need a moderator who watches the large scale of what's happening on the forum and can recognise patterns of behaviour, not just judge a single isolated post. Give warnings, lock threads if they're getting out of hand, make sure people understand the rules. Literally, moderating the discussion.

This times a billion.
The moderating being inconsistent and just a matter of luck actually makes it feel worse than no moderating at all.
Because it's like yeah, the mods exist but they ain't doing much and when they do something it's like '' *facepalm* you moderated this one comment but not *ALL* of this? ''.