I don’t believe you

I don’t think you can moderate it any better than it has been moderated given the current state of political news coverage these days. Steve and Woody kept the bots and the spam and the porn out, but the end result is what it is.

it’s real people with tinfoil hats.

I could moderate it. Woody has shown he can too. Axe is a good candidate if he’s willing to do it. But l don’t think any of us will do anything more that keep the bots and the spam and the porn out, so you’ll be stuck with the same bullshit.

I can do anything, know that invision is actually a good modern product - it just costs a boat load and they hold your data hostage on their cloud platform. So my goal was to get out of it. But I can do anything and have already changed the NodeBB format a whole lot.

Though I am aware of some issues like mobile not being great and things - like I said I realized it was a TNF game against Pittsburgh and I didnt wanna keep the site offline for it. Desktop format is good but different, in that its a consistently scrolling page not explicitly paginated.

@Zombo-Dawg said:
@Ibleedbrown I am Zombo!

Z

Look at your email and change the password for the proper account, if you didnt get it let me know.

It’s not as user friendly on my mobile phone. That’s likely a “me” problem with my diminishing eyesight, but it’s tougher to scroll at the pace l’m used to.

Following the flow of the convo is tougher too. Again, likely a me problem. Who is quoting who is tougher to pick up.

Can l post a photo?

Open to bringing it back, but this board kinda died over the last few years and that board especially felt completely unmoderated and unregulated.

Not that we should censor opinions or suppress opposing views (I don't believe in that, of course) - but we also cant be linking facebook as a source of information or having name and shame for people's personal social media accounts.

Generally political boards are tough...and for the re-launch I felt it best not to try to solve the age old problem that nobody else has been able to solve. (I mean if you look at 4chan, twitter, facebook, bluesky) - every political board turns into an echo chamber.

I wish the world wasn't like that and people could be reasonable and discuss things rationally, but alas that is especially not the case with politics for whateverreasons.

i don’t think that’s fair. The poliboard predates Stan’s passing and Steve’s taking over, and its purpose all along was to keep the politics off the main board.

By and large it accomplished that. I don’t know if anyone could have predicted how gross and weird it would turn in to, but clearly there’s an outlet for it. It was statistically the second most popular forum here. I bear my part of the shame in that.

But it was also a place we could discuss politics on the internet with entities we were reasonably certain were actual people, and l think that’s a diminishing thing on the internet these days.

You're back, sent you a password reset email for Zombo. The downside is I had to remove the email from your "Horse Balls" account since it cant be duplicated, if you have an alt email I can let you have both though. I just made it some throwaway.

Yea that's not a problem. @dutch-oven @westside-steve may have personal differences but they are both global moderators of every topic because I trust their judgement. Among @hoorta @ibleedbrown @flugel @mld-woody I either have met them personally and trust their judgements or they helped the transition and I've interacted with them for a long time. @calfoxwc may have vastly different opinions than myself but he's a true browns fan and regular so he has my respect completely.

I'm not going to run a circus or host conspiracy theories or dox people or do anything that's going to put me on a watch list. I trust the moderator group to be fair and unbiased based on the terms I set. I don't care if you insult each other and fight do whatever as long as it doesn't cross boundaries of getting too personal, etc. The terms are set and that's how it is.

Like I said, I don't really care. Just stick to the basic decency guidelines and you can swear at each other and still fight all you want. Just don't make threats, post illegal content, or dox people.

And Zombo I have no idea what the hell happened with that, he's also someone I respect a lot and I hope he becomes an active member again. Also someone I have met personally

Since there is no Poliboard anymore, there is no "both sides of the aisle". There's only Browns fans.

The Poliboard is right where it deserves to be. Let's be honest, the only reason Steve took over this board was to keep that abortion running.

This is primarily a Cleveland Browns message board.

I would just say if your gonna choose moderators.. Choose them fairly.. by that I mean people who are on both sides of the Aisle.. Not all on one side... This can be done collectively.

I second this opinion and personally glad the poliboard is where it needs to be. People there can go find another as I'm sure they exist out there. And hopefully most of them also continue discussing the Browns since we all have that in common. Plus I always liked cal's takes on outdoors stuff & "wild" recipes & canning.

Made you a mod

@nickers said:
Nice job on the reboot... However I will state... It was rather weak not to include the poliboard. You yourself didn't have to engage in it... At any rate... the site looks nice.. Go Browns...

I like the idea of it, and i'm not adverse to differing opinions and discussions. But regardless now I may be held responsible for what people post here (even though the ToS says I'm not, you never know how the law might interpret things). Leaving it archived is even questionable for me. It seems completely unmoderated to me at this point, there's doxxing and hateful remarks and various things that I'm not comfortable hosting.

Maybe if the moderator group proves they can adequately moderate the rest of the board I'd be open to re-opening a political board, but I can't allow anything that's very gray or 4chan-like that might get my servers flagged for anything malicious.