David S wrote:
My ongoing complaint is that the hateful stuff doesn't get shut down fast enough if at all. The latest trend is people regularly using the wrong pronouns for people (even Serena Williams??) and there are ongoing problems with racism etc. I know you have the "report post" function, but the recaptcha is cumbersome (apparently I don't know what a storefront is) and it takes a while for action to be taken. Even if things do get shut down eventually, this stuff is still on the front page for hours every day, which is more than long enough for the message to get across to people. There needs to be a better way to handle it.
Not sure if your idea of 'hateful content' is the same as mine (you mention 'racism' which, while real racism is truly bad, we know the term is often abused by doping apologists to try to close down any discussion of the Kenyan problem), but I do agree that genuinely hateful stuff is left up for too long.
For example, recently a top British pro was very much slandered here and the posts were up for many hours. Similarly, Jamin and others have been subjected to extremely obnoxious lies (likely by the same person), and they have remained up for as much as a day. It's easy to form the suspicion that this was deliberate upon the part of the mods.
If something stays up on this forum for more than a few hours, it can be archived and mirrored on other sites and then it will be online and on Google forever. It does seem strange that posts that upset the mods can be deleted within minutes, but potentially life-altering slanderous posts about identifiable people stay up for hours.