Nah, leave the system as it is. People need to learn to stop responding to simple baits and just use ignore. It's difficult enough to mod a board as clique-y as TiBB... every deletion/mod I think offends one of each of those groups in one way or another and it always seems to come back to over-modding.

The thing I would suggest instead that would help everyone equally, that mods make it a point to post reminders where the discussion is going off-topic for those users to get back to the original OP. If it is a reasonable transition, either lock the thread or split those posts to another one entirely (usually lock first, split, reopen, etc). This will encourage new thread creation and will also make people feel safer about posting true comments, rather than being concerned they will be ****-posted five minutes later for simply having a discussion...

I'm sure quite a bit of it is on purpose, but TiBB threads almost never stay on-topic and this enables the same 6 people to come in with their same pet peeves to derail the discussion and take it a totally different direction. This is a vast majority of where the **** posts come from.

So it's no surprise that there's only the same 3-4 topics of conversation across the entire board, because this rule is not being upheld.

And you know, some threads are just meant for a humane death.. I think give it a page or two to fall apart and when it's getting stupid, lock dat sh*t tight.

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The truth was telling lies about being in a relationship to continue his propaganda, I feel sorry for him to be honest.

On the forum chuff and dezzy are the two members who's strong opinions devide the forum, pyramid was another member who did it as well, that's a compliment not a dig.

Yes, this kind of thing really applies in SDs more than any other section, we do need to do something about the conversations always ending up back to the same could of topics (Jeremy Corbyn, Trump etc) We've actually been discussing this issue recently so we are hoping to get to some sort of a solution for it

Yeah, I think give the threads back to the OP and create a relatively strong on-topic rule. That way everyone can have whatever conversation they want without it being derailed and the sh*t posts would stay in the more controversial topics (like religion), gives the average user much more breathing room I think to spread their legs instead of being sucked into endless arguments all over the board about the same ol' topics...

I actually think it helps to spot stealth trolls faster too (as a mod) since it is much more difficult to bait when you have to adhere to the original topic itself. Pesky rules. :laugh: