African American
In reply to the discussion: *** Posted to the African-American Group *** [View all]wildeyed
(11,243 posts)Sorry to hear about the problems. I have two hides in the past two weeks, which is one more than I had in the previous 12 years. I fully deserved them, but on the other hand, I had never seen that level of bullying and insensitivity here before. I walked into a bravenak thread after having been out for a few months and saw some of the BS that was being posted and I was like WHAAAAAA???? And just blatant, broad brush insults to women all over the place. The old system would have nipped that mess in the bud. But now it is the Wild West I can drop f-bombs and hurl insults with the best of them, but then I get the hide and half the time the other BS stand. Oh well. We can hope that it is better after the primary season is over.
But it may be that this new moderation system does not allow for serious discussion beyond a certain point. The old moderation system was a huuuuge PITA. I really hoped this new one would be successful. I was giving it a chance. But this sucks.
Here is an interesting thing. After my second hide, I strategically hid about five high volume Bernie posters. Not because of anything personal, but because they were basically spamming the board with nonsense and it was getting under my skin. They know better, they just like the attention, so the best thing I can do is not pay attention. And then I hid a few more who stuck out to me as particularly venomous. I also took both candidate forums off my Greatest page (I see new Hillary Clinton threads in my Subscription pane anyway, and can still click over if I want to read the Bernie forum). I also turned of sig lines. They were all blinking and got on my nerves. Anyway, a much better experience. I still get both perspectives, but the volume is turned down to a reasonable level.
Good luck.