Boards need moderators and rules. Can people be banned?

At the moment I believe we only have an Admin and you can find him here!

Here we go again with the moderator bullshit, exactly the same fkin thing that has us all here today walking around like survivors from a train wreck, searching pathetically for bits and pieces; or do any of you doubt for a second that what imdb did to us all was one big FKED UP "moderation" right to our faces today? Like "okay if you won't ALL 100% behave I'm shutting down the place and nobody talks!", and they did!

Instead of stopping the damned PC bullshit and face the problems for what they really are, they chose to punish EVERYBODY out of spite for "trolls". Am I a fkin troll, are you one? So why are WE 'punished' for those?

So let's see, how would that work: when the 'moderator' is a 'liberal', is he going to "moderate" conservatives or anyone against his views and push them around until they have to shut up or leave from here too, or start creating 'troll' accounts instead just to f-up with the place? Likewise the other way around? If he's a homosexual, would he "moderate" anyone talking here against his (miserable) practice? Or an atheist against a believer, and so on? Or, would we fall for that same PC bullshit again and instead set hypocrisy "niceness" rules in order to not 'offend' anybody? It's exactly how 'trolling' begins.

So are you starting it again here, repeating the same damn crap? No learning, huh.

It's very good to know it in that case. Good to know what this place is really about, and then I would know what I have to do.

Human moderators are biased and they have their own agenda. Unless someone posts CP or doxxes a person there is no need for human moderation. There are codes for preventing spam from happening.

I'm gonna agree with the Admin on this one.  Right now everything is fine and if a need arises it can be done pretty quickly and wil Bea democratic process.  I understand the concern about people being afraid a mod may overstep when someone disagrees with them, but if you get a quality mod, that won't be the case.  I know I've molded forums in the past and made it a point to put my personal feelings aside when it comes to the duties.  On the other hand I've seen mods get carried away and post things such as " if you post anything bad about <insert topic here> I'll just delete it.  Those she the mods you don't want.  It's a pretty common sense job.

Not to mention, I think it's possible to have specific mods for specific sections.  It's a bit of a hassle to set it up, but it can be done rather quickly

But only a full time idiot would do that. That is a sure fire way of getting imprisoned. I am sure no one ever dared to do that even on IMDb. Oh well. Let's see what happens. There are many other movie sites out there though.

Yes, but there's no intelligence test in the registration process.

If you need any help, let me know.  I have some experience settings things like that up on a private board I run for Big Brother

From definition and experience (set by internet examples with human interaction), for example, I'm a 'troublemaker' here already, because I'm speaking contrary to this very post itself and I'm facing the 'all-powerful' administrator himself in a direct way. I'm going against the crowd with my opinion.

Right now you all may be 'impartial' about me and about this whole thing because of course politics and diplomacy strongly suggest so (to build up the numbers), but if human arrogance and such other traits kicked in, it would be an entirely different story altogether, or am I wrong? It's almost 'human nature', I'd say.

Good luck finding a truly IMPARTIAL human moderator. Not gonna happen. If he's black he'll (>90% secretly) hate whites. If he's a white supremacist he'll want nothing to do with blacks and he'll (secretly) despise them... and so on and so forth. If he's none of those, speak in truth against what he loves right to his face, and see his "impartial" reaction then. Humans.

But it is as it is. I'm speaking exactly what I think here, now that I can do it while I can do it. I tried that same thing some hours back on imdb with my years old account (since 2002) and I got "moderated" there.

Keep in mind that 'forum maintenance' and ''moderation'' are two different things.

Let's see how 'political "correctness"' and 'democracy' will work here this time around. Cheers.

Your claim here is the mods may "secretly" despise someone based on race, religion, sexual orientation, etc.  So what if they secretly despise them, unless they act out on that, there is no problem.  You seem intent and creating anew issue where none exists at this point.  Is there a reason  for such pessimism?