I'm with cybsball on this one. There is not a lot we see.
If it is really language workarounds, great, but I don't think that gets at the cusp of the board being bloated after a loss.
Some good old fashioned elbow grease to illustrate to posters that things need to remain somewhat structured around here would go a long way.
From appearances, the mods have looked soft since the transition. Obviously we do not see what goes on behind the scenes but maybe fresh blood would not be such a bad idea.
I understand, but your appearance is likely misinformed/uninformed, and definitely incorrect. We have banned a ton more people lately than we used to due to personal attacks, racist comments, trolling, breaking site rules, and so on.
Let's get some perspective on how serious of a problem it is. If you have to merge a thread every now and then, so be it. You're a mod, you signed up for that. It's like I said earlier, some people bring up arguments that warrant a new thread. It is possible to have several threads about one issue that all discuss different angles and bring up different points of dicussion. I don't see one "Insight Bowl" thread going. Don't penalize people because the threads they're starting don't always paint the best picture.
Well I guess it's not really up to you and I what the rest of the posters on this site do. We put up with the good posters just like we put up with the bad posters and we keep coming back.
Not a single mod is acting like we're curing a terminal disease here - we are fully aware that this is just a website, which is actually exactly our point (I don't understand crying because your thread gets merged). However, we do obviously maintain (without pay) a site that you have found important enough to post on over 1,600 times (that does not include any social groups or PM's). A good deal goes into moderating, and it's not just deleting a couple of posts or merging one or two threads. We have people make personal attacks on us when we explain why they can't make racist posts, we have people try and dig up our personal information and e-mail us at home if they don't like being moderated. We specifically don't make a big deal out of it (so you, as an end-user, never know) because we signed on to do this. We continue to choose to moderate because we care about ISU and think that this site is a great place for Cyclone fans to relax, debate, and so on. Adding new moderators is not as easy of a process as you think it is, although I'm sure that seems like an "easy" fix. I understand that it's easy to make sweeping generalizations from the outside, but this thread alone shows you how many varying opinions there are on the way the site should be run - and we hear from everyone.
We're eliciting opinions here not because this is some enormous, important deal - but because we want to make this service even more valuable to our users. A little respect and a little less venom toward other posters, the site owners, and the moderators isn't a lot to ask.