Replies to post #20408 on The Question and Answer Board (IHUB)

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

You make a good case.

You know, of course, that though we might hope the end result would be peaceful but separate coexistence of both a tolerant board and a warm-fuzzy one, that wouldn't be the case.

What'd happen is that we'll be right back where we started in months. Maybe weeks.

It won't be enough that people can be excluded from one board and go post somewhere else where people can more easily opt not to see them. A lot of energy will be spent either complaining about the allowed existence of these people elsewhere on the site or, more likely, a lot of attacking will happen on the "admin-controlled" board ostensibly because "they're lying", and when they attacks are inevitably deleted and the attackers suspended/terminated, the same complaints we're seeing now would arise again and the people we were hoping to accommodate would just leave anyway, after we put in all that work.

Ask me how I know. LOL

Ask me how Raging Bull became a sizable site to begin with and you'll get the same answer. <ng>

Still, you're swaying me a bit.

Matt? Did you understand his post and what do you think?

Here's another idea that I can throw out there that'd probably get shot down pretty quickly and perhaps after I give it some thought, I'd be one of the trigger-squeezers: Make such a user-controlled-and-no-admin-intervention board a premium board plus an extra monthly fee charged to the board itself (or whoever chooses to operate it) so that people participating there, especially the "moderators" would take their site-usage privileges more seriously.

Hmmm... Maybe not. Such a policy change would probably kill that board (I'm fine with that) but also opens the door to things like IR firms buying board space here and using it manipulatively.

Surely there's a solution that, though it won't please everyone, would please the pleasable among us.