For the O’club to continue to exist on this message board, it needs to get back to its roots. The O’club was originally opened as a place to socialize with other Aces High players and converse about topics not directly related to AH. Over time, it’s gone from a place to socially interact with other players to a place to antisocially interact with internet trolls. It went from insightful to inciteful with many opinions simply expressed for shock value.
There’s been numerous suggestions made in the thread I opened in the general forum. I’d like to address a few of them.
“It’s fine as it was.”
No it isn’t. It will change, it’s just a matter of whether that change will be to the nature of the forum or the existence of the forum. Leaving it as it was is no longer an option.
“AH needs the O’club.”
Sorry, you’re kidding yourself if you believe that. The O’club can be a positive thing for the community, but it can also be a negative. If the negative outweighs the positive, then we find ourselves in a situation where we can have addition by subtraction. We didn’t start AH so that we could have the O’club.
After reading a lot and thinking about it, I concur with the opinion that the community of the O’club need to self-moderate. I have deep reservations about whether this could happen, but we can try. If the O’club community as a whole can’t show a minimal level of self-control, then nothing else will work. It is paramount that the social standards of what is viewed as acceptable in the O’club is changed.
I also think some moderators from the community are needed. We don’t have the time to spend trying through a bunch of off topic stuff to keep people from posting trash. It’s not that I think outside moderators can do that either, but I do think it is necessary in terms of stopping drive-bys and shutting down some things before they boil over.
Are there persons who would be consensus picks who would be willing to moderate this forum?
I’m reopening the O’club for now and sticking this message to talk about moderator candidates as well as discussing what should and shouldn’t be acceptable in here.
