>>56263677Board moderation aside from biases works akin to a democracy where the posters of this board decide the content they're tolerating, which over the discourse of the past years was allowed to fall into a downhill slope from both sides. One site actively repeating the same mistakes of genwarring and off-topic nonsense that drive posters away while the other side does too little to put an stronger stop to it. While it is true that the gentlemen have become gradually more and more sloppy or slower in their engagement or attention to the board, they're still operating on the principle of the report system which is queue-based, meaning that the rulebreaking or shitty content that plagues the board will more frequently vanish the more you add your part in giving atttention to it the RIGHT way, because the gentlemen can see you what you post and report. One such example is the coomshit: if you give others shit for posting porn and other NSFW content while reporting them but then do the same stuff yourself then it's just sending double standards which will turn their attention away to something else.
Another instance would be the off-topic nonsense that sometimes is stacking up and which also goes hand-in-hand with the reoccuring lolcows. You see dozens of posts regarding posters, but are the posters Pokemon-related? No, they're not and by going into the ban archives like 4bans you can see what kind of Pokemon-related stuff is tolerated. Because you're supposed to talk on /vp/ about Pokemon from the Pokemon franchise, not the posters which add nothing to it. And you give lolcows the satisfaction by acknowledging their existence and letting them derail affected threads.
In order to improve /vp/, which would be only a small fraction in impact and visibility, it would require more hands on deck to decisively make a case visible to both the moderation and the gentlemen for what is ok for the Pokemon board and what isn't.
