Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3279282-20180219212453/@comment-1251315-20180220104822

Please note all of this is just my opinion, based on past experience and from reading the comments in this thread.

The whole reason the versus section got out of control last time was down to nobody moderating the section. It was brought back under control by moderators in that instance (that was me and WindStar back in the day). The fact it has gone out of control again means that, once again, moderators are not keeping a proper eye on that section.

For it to be solved, you need to get involved with the section and actually do something. The section does not solve itself by inaction: I can see that some mods are at least trying to handle the section, but you can't expect them to sit 24/7 reading the threads, they all have lives and jobs to attend to as well. If it's a problem, appoint additional moderators to handle the section and it will be easier to handle.

Closing the section or deleting it is not a solution to people not actually moderating the section in the first place. I can see from several comments, including those from mods, that closing/deleting the section isn't the way to solve this solution, but just better moderation.

For the record, sooner or later, this wiki will be forced to have some sort of mobile discussions section where all of this content will be migrated. It was attempted at some point last year but shot down by the community, but you should assume that all this content will be moved there in time and that you will probably have less controls in the "discussions" section than you do in the current forums.

As for the point of auto-locking, that is already enabled. If it's not working, blame Wikia for breaking the code and nobody going to update the old JS files.

On the topic of forum mods banning users, that won't happen as Wikia no longer seems to allow the user groups to be edited with custom perms like this. Back in the day, we had Forum Ops who could specifically ban a user from the wiki/forum and the mods would contact an Op to do this. Since Forum Ops were removed, it seems like mods no longer know who they're supposed to be contacting to get users banned from the wiki for a period of time for rule violations, or maybe they do know and just don't want to speak up, which is understandable given nearly all of the sysops are inactive (barring one or two users) from what I could see and given that the sysop requests page is no longer used.