RAWK Goes Into Meltdown (2011/2012)

Originally Posted by Damien1990

Horrible place to be on. They've gone mod overload. I can see how and why the staff on there would be a bit pissed off at some of the comments but now it's gone to the point where nearly anyone who says anything completely negative gets banned and those threads get locked. Doing that is not going to make things better, there needs to be some sort of a balance and, in my opinion they're making things worse and not better.

Originally Posted by Damien1990

On here when things get bad, like after the City loss for example or a few occasions I remember in the newbies, even when things were at their worst threads weren't really locked and while there were some members who were venting, there were also a few others who said it's not the end of the world and added some balance. That's what you need to do, let the members vent and some others will calm things down. Locking every thread is just going to make things worse.

Also helps that there's a promotion system on here so when things do get very bad, most of the "damage" happens in the newbies and not as much here. Whereas on there it's all concentrated in the one place.

Originally Posted by Hectic

Now that is how you moderate. It's an amazement they have active members with the consideration they show to their posters.

Originally Posted by Damien1990

Yep. I agree completely.

I think RAWK could moderate itself to a certain degree too. It's the same with any site but the users there aren't really being given that chance to. It does look like that full time thread wasn't locked another time which is a start, though I'm not sure whether the staff stuck to what they said and banned people who had an overly negative view or not.

Most threads being locked happen around match time and why is that? It's because they want to talk about the match but can't because of the commentary thing so they vent about players in the player threads instead and they get locked. Keep a match thread open and sure the odd person may post in a player thread but so what? We've seen on here the criticism of some of our players but then there's always an opposing view which adds a balance to things.

In a match thread they can vent about a player in there at the time and then at full time if they wish they can post that same view in the player thread, or because it's out of their system/the player had a good end to the match they may change their opinion.

Give the members respect and stop treating them like five year olds by locking so many threads and they'll appreciate it. It's a shame as the site does some things so well, like what they did with Anne Williams and but then they let themselves down in other areas.