Good god no

i think they sound cut their losses and axe the forums and not just the steam hub, but for games, too.

This place is pretty lawless now, there are all kinds of degenerate threads.
Part of me thinks "This needs some moderation" but another parts likes laughing at all of the oddball basement dwellers posting things which they really shouldn't be sharing with others.

Originally posted by SanekiBeko:

The mods Steam uses nowadays are less strict and slow to respond. Back in the day, volenteer mods were glued to their screens 24/7 while going harder on the bans. Off Topic is already a mess and needs harsher moderation. What are your thoughts on this? Should Off Topic go back to volunteer mods or is the current 3rd party system working just fine?

Just going back to the no politics, no religion, no spam, etc type of rules we got before, should be enough imo.

No thanks just get rid of trump oops oi mean politics

Originally posted by SanekiBeko:

Back in the day, volenteer mods were glued to their screens 24/7 while going harder on the bans.

Correction: going harder on people that they don't agree with

No.... it was problematic

I'll say "yes" but they would need to be careful whom they select. The problem in the past was bias and corrupted mods though.

I liked the old "volunteer" system.

Originally posted by AdahnGorion:

No.... it was problematic

In a funny way?

Originally posted by SanekiBeko:

The mods Steam uses nowadays are less strict and slow to respond. Back in the day, volenteer mods were glued to their screens 24/7 ...

The problem here is their biases - not just of the ones that were here before but whoever you put in that role.
The volunteers usually made decisions that made more sense than the Steam Support mods ...except when that bias crept in, then all rationality kind of went out the window.

Making the case that someone can commit white collar crime against you, so you shouldn't be reckless in the workplace shouldn't result in your precautionary statement getting deleted followed by the volunteer telling the person to waste thousands of dollars on a lawyer, many of whom on the bar association's availability list are in the pocket of big companies anyways, and then have the topic immediately locked. That is completely unreasonable.

Asking how to tell apart threatening sounding people from actual threats and drawing the analogy of king snakes and coral snakes, as a new topic in Off Topic, should not result in a deletion of your created topic and ban for, the topic (not any response) being "off topic" in the sub-forum titled "Off Topic". A volunteer did that to my record and it's been downhill since then.
That is not an unreasonable thing to ask and the only reason to delete it is if you got offended about being a snake.

Hell no. But bringing back the no politics rule would be pretty funny

Who would be the volunteers?

Would people want me to run the moderation?

It would become very strict as it is the Steam Community Forums and so would always be thinking of the integrity of Valve.
That would have goods and bads.

Originally posted by SanekiBeko:

The mods Steam uses nowadays are less strict and slow to respond. Back in the day, volenteer mods were glued to their screens 24/7 while going harder on the bans. Off Topic is already a mess and needs harsher moderation. What are your thoughts on this? Should Off Topic go back to volunteer mods or is the current 3rd party system working just fine?

The old volunteer mods were awful.

Let's not forget why they are gone.

They approached Valve with their "concerns". They got invited to a private meeting at Valve HQ. Then made demands. That if not met? They would quit moderating.

This led to them being replaced.

They abused their power to benefit their friends, and silence any (and all) criticism of them. Whether that be their rules, moderation policies, or even personal opinions.

I would much prefer waiting days for someone to be banned over getting banned for saying that "cheaters are bad".

Originally posted by :

Just ban politics. They were allowed around the time the paid moderators took over which would make it look like OT is more chaotic after the volunteers got replaced. I don't trust a moderator from the community to give fair and unbiased punishments.

I think it pretty too late for that. The genie is out of the bottle. I would imagine a complete collapse of OT and other forums if politics get banned again. I am sure the leftists would gladly to reinstate the no politics rule so they can exercise echo chamber like in the past.