Libcom might end forum

[alanjjohnstone]

Those who run Libcom are thinking of dropping the forum section. 

Moderation has been cited as one reason

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We don't have the capacity to moderate the forums properly, and most of the admins and editors no longer post on them regularly (I only started to again recently after a several year hiatus) which makes moderating extremely difficult. It's not really a sustainable thing and the rate of attrition (usually to social media) is not matched by new forum posters. Then that lack of strict moderation means a lot of people have pulled back from the forums as well.

Despite criticism of the moderation by members of our own forum, other people seem to believe ours work so perhaps BrianJ should be congratulated and perhaps there is an opening for him as one contributor suggested

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If you refer to the forums of SPGB (most active), ICT, and ICC (or 

Redmarx), they seem fairly well moderated. It doesn't look a problem for them to admin. If the work-load is really too much for libcom, perhaps someone trusted, from like the SPGB, can be made an admin here to help out.

[Mike Foster]

Hopefully the Libcom forum won't be closed, as it's a useful and interesting way to find out what's being discussed out there. Nice of the poster to give this forum and its moderation a mention.

[ALB]

I agree. Hopefully the Libcom forum will continue, but what is the source of the passages quoted and where can the whole message be found?

[DJP]

ALB wrote:

I agree. Hopefully the Libcom forum will continue, but what is the source of the passages quoted and where can the whole message be found?

http://libcom.org/forums/general/why-are-places-revleft-revforum-dying-11122017

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