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IMPORTANT POLL: Should there be an off-topic section?
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pcprogrammer:
Define lurker for us.

Do you mean someone who has not registered as a member and is just looking at what is written. This type can't report anything. No "report to moderator" button

Or do you mean someone who has registered and only looks and does not post much, or at least not in a thread that they might disagree on something written there. This type can report.

To me the involved insider moderator idea feels like it will not work either. Partiality might develop over time due to befriending some and disliking others. The forum is still in existence after many years and seems to have done well with only the few, and sadly now one less, moderators. But only long time members can tell if what happened recently has happened before.

If it will happen again, nobody knows.

As long as we are tolerant and don't go for each others throats over some disagreement, we can go a long way.
Mark19960:
With all due respect to everyone.... if I wanted to be a cheeky bugger and talk politics or religion I would find elsewhere.
pcprogrammer:
If you had bothered to read this thread, you would have known that it has already shifted back to no politics or religion, and that it is about a section where non electronics related projects can be shared.
HobGoblyn:
There’s a very popular money saving forum in the UK. It used to have an off topic section called "Discussion Time"

It ended up being removed as the mods were spending 10 times more on that one section than the 50+ sections regarding money.

Trouble is, if you give your opinion of virtually anything, nowadays someone will take offence and report the post. It got to the point where so many people reported (perfectly fine) posts that the mods simply closed threads or removed them without actually having the time to moderate  them properly.

This then ended up with tons of complaints from the regular posters in that section, and in the end the site simply had no option but close it down.

m k:

--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on September 10, 2022, 03:56:32 pm ---Define lurker for us.
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Reading but not writing.

Do you have a bias towards the word?
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