As I have nothing better to do I counted 31 users posting on the mask thread including Kari.
I would then say out of those the majority made roughly 1-10 posts and that was it. some of which were irrelevant spam those at the higher end of the 1-10
the rest of the thread seemed to be mostly 5 users although we can bump it to 6 including OP and out of the total posts 600+ 3 users accounted for over half of them
My view is that the thread should have been locked a lot earlier on due to the circular nature it was taking and that it was clear it would basically go on and on which it did for 60 pages with nothing to show for it really.
this seemed to be the general order sort of
user 1 says something
user 2 says give me proof/source or whatever while also offering their view
user 1 gives their proof/source or whatever and gives a rebuttal to user 2s view and also asks for proof/source or whatever
user 2 mostly ignores the source and then focuses on the rebuttal to their view asking for a source of that instead
and it goes on and on for 60 pages basically with some users dropping out for a while and others taking on the baton
There was also in my mind inconsistent moderation such as removing off topic discussion about trump and then a couple of pages later it starts again and a lack of monitoring not to mention clear flaming being left
I mean a mod recognising the thread is going in a circular motion but rather than putting an end to it or not posting they instead on their first post specifically call out a user and then proceed to engage in a back and forth for multiple pages. I get they're a volunteer but come on.
Ultimately I believe the forums have had a major source of discussion removed because of lets be fair and say 5 users.
I think if Nick hadn't taken a couple of days before returning to the thread it would have been different. So I'm blaming him
I would then say out of those the majority made roughly 1-10 posts and that was it. some of which were irrelevant spam those at the higher end of the 1-10
the rest of the thread seemed to be mostly 5 users although we can bump it to 6 including OP and out of the total posts 600+ 3 users accounted for over half of them
My view is that the thread should have been locked a lot earlier on due to the circular nature it was taking and that it was clear it would basically go on and on which it did for 60 pages with nothing to show for it really.
this seemed to be the general order sort of
user 1 says something
user 2 says give me proof/source or whatever while also offering their view
user 1 gives their proof/source or whatever and gives a rebuttal to user 2s view and also asks for proof/source or whatever
user 2 mostly ignores the source and then focuses on the rebuttal to their view asking for a source of that instead
and it goes on and on for 60 pages basically with some users dropping out for a while and others taking on the baton
There was also in my mind inconsistent moderation such as removing off topic discussion about trump and then a couple of pages later it starts again and a lack of monitoring not to mention clear flaming being left
I mean a mod recognising the thread is going in a circular motion but rather than putting an end to it or not posting they instead on their first post specifically call out a user and then proceed to engage in a back and forth for multiple pages. I get they're a volunteer but come on.
Ultimately I believe the forums have had a major source of discussion removed because of lets be fair and say 5 users.
I think if Nick hadn't taken a couple of days before returning to the thread it would have been different. So I'm blaming him
02-Aug-2020 22:31:12 - Last edited on 02-Aug-2020 22:31:39 by Wilf
