What would you like to see from TSR?

A much firmer hand to be taken with COVID and vaccine-related misinformation. There's no debate to be had - letting people post misinformation and persuade others not to get vaccinated just endangers TSR users and their families.

Email verification has been re-introduced lately, if I'm not mistaken.

The mods are often too busy (re: there are not enough of them, particularly outside of business hours) for proper explanations.

Agree with this. I’m not sure why the universities forum has an anonymous function and think it should be removed.

As others have pointed out: introduce email verification when signing up, because it’s tedious to keep reporting the same troll 20 odd times per night and in all honesty, I sometimes don’t even bother after the first 3.

Another point would be to make moderation more reasonable (as @final fantasy described), or to at least provide a reason as to why a post is removed other than the basic “it breaches community guidelines” - because I’ve had to make wild guesses for the reasons for all of my removed posts in the past, which isn’t helpful.

Another thing that could be done is hiring volunteers for certain boards to kill trolls faster. For instance, hiring a number of volunteering users to moderate the relationship board. I don't see why money would be an issue with this since by definition they wouldn't be paid and would be doing it because they want to improve the site.

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Agreed, and we might see more on this in September (I know as much as you at the moment). My advice in the mean time is going down the route of on and off topic. It's so easy for people to draw you off into a tangent. For example, when someone takes a thread discussing covid testing and moves the discussion to be entirely about vaccines. It's derailing just because they're trying to push a certain agenda. Best thing to do is keep the topic as narrow as possible and say "hang on, this thread is about testing". That, and never get personal otherwise the conversation goes downhill faster than Usain Bolt in a tabogan.

How

You can apply to become a Forum Helper (and/or encourage others to as well) here:
https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=569

We're never not recruiting. A competent forum Helper can then become a Volunteer after a few months.

Personally the relationship forum I think needs to be completely reworked, there are far to many trolls. Simple ways of sorting some of this out is having a simple ban for the ones that are talking about having incest with family and things like that. Also I understand some places need anon feature, but it isn’t needed site wide . A rework of that would be needed definitely.

Sort out the app! make it more user friendly, include more features and bring it more in line with the website etc. I imagine lots of users are put off by it.

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I meant more in the context of specifically recruiting people to police certain boards. In my view the pan-forum way of moderation doesn't seem to be effective.

Everyone on the Forum Helper and Volunteer Team has specific permissions for certain forums. I can close or bin threads in D&CA, but I can't in Chat. There is a dedicated team looking after Life and Style, which includes Health and Relationships. But more helpers are always welcomed.

There is a reason for this frantic recruitment to the VT though, isn't there MR...

Here's a tip! You can put anon on your ignore list, makes the place much better

You can still chose to view individual posts if you need to.

Too little, too late. You're basically implementing it when it doesn't matter anymore. The trolls and conspiracists have already completely poisoned the covid megathread and almost any discussion about it on this website. The damage is already done. This is something that should have been implemented back in 2020.

These are usually trolls and these usually get banned pretty quickly remember to report any that you see! VPNs being widespread means IP bans are not as effective anymore. I will certainly pass on about the suitability of anon in different forums!

Will definitely pass this on, good point

I know there are people looking at what TSR can do with the app at the mo (but yes, I agree )

You're right, I'm having a baby and need more time off.