Why does TSR allow racism?

I find if you keep reporting you start getting a few extra warnings yourself.

I find if you keep reporting you start getting a few extra warnings yourself.

Well if you're reporting posts that go against TSR rules then that does seem to be extremely unfair. If you're abusing the report function then I would agree with a blue card.

It's actually downright ridiculous how many racist threads/posts I see on this forum.

Quite frankly, the "anti-hate speech" thing in the rules seems to be a load of rubbish, because there are also a billion anti-woman threads on here every day, which seem to be made by the same people with multiple accounts which I presume is also against the rules.

Now, AFAIK the Student Room is meant to be a student site and not some kind of subtle, pretending-to-be-innocent version of Stormfront.

So why do the moderators here turn such a blind eye to this sort of thing?

Half the racist threads and posts I see would get shut down in under a couple of hours in the other forums I frequent. But here they go on for days and weeks.

Especially given how many people on this site are under 18, TSR really needs to take more responsibility and tighten up application of its modding rules.

I did report this, which is exactly what the mods tell us to do

I take the opposite approach, keep reporting (4 only today for example) and eventually the mods will see that investigating and dealing with these neo-Nazis, every single time they make a new alt is a waste of their time and be forced to actually take drastic action.

Totally within TSR's rules

A whole hour ago! Oh no, they havent got to this one froma whole hour ago, when they're dealing with a good 20-30 from four/five hours ago....

Most people havent even finished work yet! I know I used to finish at five... THen consider how long it takes for them to get hoe, if they do any other activities etc...

Tbh it's better that you report as much as possible, because we dont get as much of a **** storm otherwise

This is my exact point though. If the mods have trouble keeping up with all the rule breaking, when you consider how much the racist (and tbh sexist posters) create alts as soon as they get banned and start posting again, there probably needs to be a change in how TSR deals with such people




This is reassuring I must say.

This is my exact point though. If the mods have trouble keeping up with all the rule breaking, when you consider how much the racist (and tbh sexist posters) create alts as soon as they get banned and start posting again, there probably needs to be a change in how TSR deals with such people




This is reassuring I must say.

You tend to get a quicker response "after work" hours ie: I've reported stuff. Some stuff takes a few hours, some stuff can take a little longer, because it's an awkward one

What's your suggestions on a change in how TSR deals with such people?

I would say that it's a bit too easy to create another account (no need to click on a link from any email by the looks of things) although I realise this is probably a discussion for another thread, so I'll leave it at that.

Anything which minimizes the legwork mods have to carry out

So in terms of suggestions:

Far more frequent use of IP bans in the case of racist/sexist posters - using proxies is slow and you often lose some functionality, so it would massively disrupt their activity

A function for the mods which allow them to bin threads on mass - these racist posters usually make several threads in very quick succession and as soon as they are banned (if they have a name like "Jewsdid9/11") just bin it all without even bothering to check




This is something I was thinking about in fact, maybe you should have to wait 24 hours before receiving the account activation email, so getting your account banned really does mean something.

You tend to get a quicker response "after work" hours ie: I've reported stuff. Some stuff takes a few hours, some stuff can take a little longer, because it's an awkward one. At night time, some stuff can take 2 minutes

What's your suggestions on a change in how TSR deals with such people?

I find that most reports are done pretty quickly, though as you said, I have noticed that responses after work hours are quicker.

And btw, thank you so much for binning that thread I alerted to you earlier. That was very quick of you

Binned in a matter of minutes

Some mods here seems to think racism against East Asians (esp ethnic Chinese) as more acceptable than racism to Africans.

Tbh racism doesn't really exist in the 21st Century anymore