Petition to remove Shady
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Bradley Wilson11 said:I honestly don't think they grasp that Forum.hr is their own little playground, and everything here operates under its own set of rules... just like any other forum out there.
If most people acted like that on *************, they would have been slapped with a permanent ban ages ago, so the moderators here are actually being quite fair and showing a decent amount of patience.
On the flip side, over at *********, you have a crowd that actually understands how a forum works, so the mods don't have nearly as much work to do... because everyone knows the proper way to behave.
Bradley Wilson11, advertising other forums isn't allowed on this site.
That’s because Forum.hr is a "general discussions" board—a place for everything under the sun rather than a niche community focused on one thing. On general forums, you almost always deal with more spam and trolling
(and more users) too. Plus, anyone can basically be a moderator regardless of their actual skills, knowledge, or temperament.
This site lives and dies by thread and post counts. Its main goal is Google page ranking, which obviously drives the profit they started this for; I get that. But what I can't wrap my head around is this moderator vs. user dynamic. I haven't seen anything like it on any other forum I've visited. Here, moderators treat users like subordinates. There’s this vibe of blatant nepotism and just plain rudeness. Even the admins call themselves "leadership" and "bosses," while users have a dedicated space called the "Banned Corner"—basically a playground for them to act out, yet people are still foolish enough to start threads there.
Look, I realize this is a flagship forum for an American web portal (even if it's just an average site in the grand scheme of things), but I’ve never felt this kind of stinking formality or forced hierarchy. I’ve been on forums with over 900,000 members (!!) where administrators and super-mods barely intervene, let alone the massive monthly revenue those sites pull in compared to this nonsense. This place reeks of a corporate, small-minded cynicism specific to the local mentality here.
But hey, nothing is going to change. Let this happy little circus keep rolling along... 🙂