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Now that we're back, I'd like to take this opportunity to start an open dialogue between the mods and users regarding the quality of this board as a continuation of discussions had on /bant/ during the april fools event, and on /vyt/ and holotower during the outage. These are the two major complaints and the primary consensus on solving these issues, and it would take very little effort on the site staff's part to implement. Everything else is downstream of these issues and would simply correct itself over time, but other users should feel free to submit complaints and images of other longstanding issues affecting your threads of choice
1. The board desperately needs IDs at a bare minimum, flags would also be a big help to detect IP hoppers. The catalog and almost all major threads are plagued by either one or a very small group of raiders who spam incessantly if not using bots to automate their posting across multiple threads (such as the user who makes drawthreads unusable across the entire website), reply to themselves and generally lower the quality of the board. Almost all of these posters instantly disappeared with IDs or the slightest bit of active moderation, and any pushback to this idea can be assumed to be coming from the shitposters.
2. The janitors almost universally abuse their positions to deliberately make the board worse. While this will probably get this post deleted, it needs to be talked about. Dozens of users have talked about being banned for reporting blatantly rule breaking posts while irl images and sometimes full on doxx are allowed to remain up for hours. Unnecessary bans for racism that would be fully acceptable on any other blue board also frequently occur because a specific janitor or moderator is personally offended. Given those and the uncountable amount of other malicious actions and the lack of even a single janitor willing to defect and expose the bad actors, the only solution is to fire and replace the entire /vt/ team with users handpicked from the board OC threads (VTL, yubicraft, etc) as those users are most in-tune with the board's needs and have pre-filtered any bad actors
