Posting on Club Together

"Unfortunately, if the continuation of this disruption, unfriendly nature of some posts towards others or the Club continues, we will not hesitate to suspend users' access to the forum until further notice."

I would be very interested to know what has prompted such a response. Being a regular reader / contributor on CT, I haven't noticed anything particularly untoward of late - and it must have been pretty awful to justify such a clear threat. 

If anything Richard I've noticed an improvement of late. Sure, posts have been Deleted User but does the club want to ban disagreements?

Seems a very heavy handed opening post.

 ... but does the club want to ban disagreements? 

It does appear so ...

Hi wherenext, thanks for the questions, completely understand what you mean, let me try and clarify some of your points.

1. These are going through various layers of sign-off and once ready, will be introduced to the forum and communicated. You will be familiar with much of the information and guidelines they involve, from the current community guidelines, but additions and clarity are being provided where necessary to further help users' understanding. 

2.Criticism and constructive feedback towards the Club is tolerated, but there is a line between criticisms and complaints. As mentioned in the Community Guidelines "Do not misuse the channels for complaint - if you have a complaint please contact the relevant department directly."

Unfriendly nature towards the Club in this regard pertains to Club staff, we have seen various comments made around site staff, head office staff and moderation as well as questioning moderation as of late in a tone that we don't feel appropriate for a forum that looks to be positive, respectful and polite. 

We ask that the same approach is taken when debating with others on the forum, we by no means are looking to censor disagreement or debate,  but we have had a significant increase in the level of reported posts over the past few weeks from users making complaints about the manner in which other's have said things to them on the forum. 

Hi Geejay, thanks for your response on this and I am sorry that you feel this way, this was posted as a reminder for members of the forum to refresh themselves on the community guidelines.

Unfortunately, over the past few weeks we have seen a significant uplift in complaints being made about user posts across the platform. The moderation team are by no means trying to censor posts on the forum.

As you have highlighted and I imagine many others would agree, including myself and the moderation team, we would prefer not to have so many posts that say 'content removed' but as posts are reported and are deemed to be contravening the guidelines in different ways, the team action removal of posts.

At times, the team may need to moderate the community and we ask that you respect the decisions made, as these are not open for debate in the community and any comments of this nature will be removed.

We will always ask that users follow the community guidelines and in doing so, we can ensure that no content from them will be removed and allow free discussion and debates.

Just stumbled on this thread and thought wow, do I really want to be a member of such a naughty bunch of people. 

Do we really need to be spoken to like naughty children. If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen. 

+1

By the way Kieran, have you listened in on the House of Commons lately? CAMC discussions forum is childs play compared. Stifling debate is non democratic even if heated at times, Moderation is part and parcel of any forum if it goes over the line.

We hope this information was of help to ensure Club Together is a friendly and welcoming online community. I will now close this discussion. If you do have any questions please email us community.manager@camc.com