Almost every third topic in this forum meets with the following end:
Dead end
Good, bad or ugly, all topics nowadays have the same end: Closed! Closed for review!
But closed nonetheless because no topic that is closed for review is opened unless people persist.
Almost every topic in this forum falls into one of the following categories:
Criticism posts about anything be it forum or show or actors: 'Bashing' (I am not talking about derogatory bashing posts. But genuine posts of criticism. Posts that may not be positive about an actor or actress or a show but not rude or offensive)
Peacemaking posts: Preaching (Wonder when raising voice for peace became a big issue)
Barun appreciation posts: Drooling or hormonal (Wonder why an actor cannot be praised without confusing it with his looks or our hormones?)
Sanaya appreciation post: Innuendos about sexual orientation of TM (Wonder where this weird notion that women can't be women's fans came from?)
Gul criticism posts: Barun pankhis or Gul basher (Seriously? Can't a normal person criticize the way she handles the show?)
Barun criticism posts: Gul's agents/bashers (What the! He is an actor. And so far as the criticism is to do with his acting or his role, it should be acceptable. Only when it gets into Barun the person and his individuality, there should be issues.)
Sanaya criticism posts: Barun pankhi/Sanaya hater (Now I may never see anything wrong with her. But perhaps there are a handful who do, and I wonder why they are branded. She is an actress. Anything to do with her role or her acting should be acceptable. Again when it gets into Sanaya the individual, the posts should be considered a problem)
Generic posts: No link to IPK (Sure this is IPK forum. But people have a life beyond that can relate to this forum or the show though it may not be about the show itself)
Sarun posts: Gossip mongers (This is crap. Sarun are Arnav and Khushi. Why should loving them be wrong or considered as part of gossip?)
New show posts: Belongs to a so and so thread and cannot be made in public forum (So, a person should be ecstatic about their actor's new show)
The fact that many of these posts tend to degenerate into personal bashing or hate or anger, does not take away the right of the TM to make a post or have it open for healthy discussions. This is where moderation is important on behalf of the TM and the mods too who can warn and then close or review and reopen. Though there are warnings issued at times, most of the time the TM has the rude shock of seeing a moderately decent thread being closed.
The boundaries and limitations have become so rigid than one cannot write anything at all in this forum. So, it becomes clear people can only make the following posts:
Picture posts
Articles
News
Past episode discussions
Episode analysis
Posts related to the characters in the show
I may have missed something. But this is pretty much what is allowed.
So instead of 'last warning' posts, Mods should generally make a post saying what is allowed in the main forum. It is likely to get more results.
The rate at which posts are closed and the number of increasing reports speak of intolerance and a sad death of democracy.
Certain posts are targeted by certain opposite groups.
That should not have been a reason for concern, had the moderators not given in to their blind pressure.
Moderators may deny it, but the fact that even the most peaceful posts are closed shows that they are acting on pressure and not their own discretion.
Maintaining democracy when things were peaceful is not the challenge for law keepers. So, when the show was on things were fine and posts remained open.
But maintaining and upholding democracy when all is not well is the challenge.
Warnings and force are always poor substitutes for real peacemaking processes.
So when a Mod finds a post is wrong or made in the wrong place, why is a pm or warning not issued. Doesn't blindly closing a topic destroy free will?
When a topic is closed for review, why it is not really reviewed and reopened. Doesn't not doing this takes away the faith in fairness?
When a thread is reported by a huge mass of people, why should the thread be closed unless it is really wrong? Does it not sound like mob fury?
The faith in the report button and moderation process has been permanently destroyed for me at least because for obvious reasons many of my posts have been targeted, though majority know I never bash or insult.
I am fine with posts being closed, because I myself don't like it when it deteriorates. I have myself pmd the mods to let a so and so topic remain closed.
What has finally made me lose it is the fact that a post where I had asked for advice about a missing friend and a post for sanaya and her acting was closed. While the first was redirected to members lounge (I never knew such a thing existed till the mod told me and I don't know how many visit it), the post about Sanaya was redirected to the show discussion thread, though I see many threads open.
This comes in a large series of recent posts that have been closed though there was no bashing or no anarchy.
So, my question is, what is the point of a free forum if there is no freedom? What is the point of forcibly enforcing things on people? And if it needs to be done what is the use of the forum?
Unlike many, I have never wanted this forum closed as it is still a place where memories of a beloved show live.
But are these forcible closures are gradually crippling the forum and making the best of topic makers leave? Is this a way to finally close the forum?
It is making people shut up whereas it was only supposed to make people talk decently and rationally.
It is making people clam up, whereas it was only supposed to make them think before writing anything.
PS:
Last time I protested I received a long personal criticism from the mods and a long lecture.
Mods, criticizing me will not resolve the fact that the forum has become a place where democracy has been dying a sad death.
People can only write when 'The mind is without fear and head is held high'
This is anyway my final post on any general topic and perhaps the last in the forum too.
Because I have lost faith in the forum laws and law keepers and where there is no law there is no room for peaceful existence or freedom of expression.
And I know this post too will meet that end ...dead end, whereas in a democracy people have the right to speak up against the government and its leaders and its law makers.
Yes mods are busy and cant watch over every post and cant reopen them. But that brings me to the point, is being busy a reason to not reopen or to let a chaotic post run for pages and a perfectly normal one close in 10 pages?
Where is the moderation in closure time and rules?
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