the lounge

You know, I was doing some research on crime around the world. What I found, was kind of a head slapper. All the countries with low crime have a few things in common.
- High punishment for offenders.
- Low divorce rate.
- Parents teach children to be respectful.
- Drug usage.
- Better Schooling system.
- Don't cater to the homeless

I think you have an interpretation bias. There are factors that play a much bigger part (employment rate, gdp per capita etc.) Also, for some of the top countries in the list of lowest crime rates some elements on your metrics don't tell the whole story.

Case in point, there are fast track processes for getting a divorce ( around 6months all the way down to immediately), drug possession and private use is legal, homelessness is low due to social housing programs etc.

I suggest you have a closer look at the elements that have the most weight. Also the nature of the demographic of the population plays a huge part. It is kind of an apples to oranges trying to compare a country like Iceland to the US.

The moderation on the forum has been at best questionable. It's a shitty job that nobody really wants to do so it is to be expected that we get people that are not very great that end up doing it poorly.

Speed Chaser i have noticed that. makes you wonder how they got set up in the first place. create multiple user accounts. create the social group. then have them "talk". im assuming there has to be some kind of human intervention going on.
i also noticed lots in Russian and what im assuming maybe Chinese. for a while there were several showing up about ED. there are even some that appear to be RC related but contain no RC content, just the same bot BS. i also wonder why it hits the groups and not the forum.

@SC, SDW, same here, I was wondering when someone would bring up the bot issue. It's hilarious watching bots attempting to talk to each other. I reckon we are the only legit group here lol.

@ORJ, I can only speak for my part of the world, so here goes:

- High punishment for offenders. -True
- Low divorce rate. -Was true many years ago, however it's probably much higher nowadays. This varies MASSIVELY according to ethnicity/religion/wealth. Median length of marriage before divorce is approx. 10 years
- Parents teach children to be respectful. -True
- Drug usage. -Probably true, but debatable. Drug usage has gone up in recent years thanks to celebs glamorizing it.
- Better Schooling system. -True
- Don't cater to the homeless -Somewhat true. There are homeless shelters but a decent chunk of "invisible" homeless. Not everyone by the beach or at the airport is enjoying themselves for instance.

ejtnt : Agreed. I have proposed ideas in the mod discussion, only answer I get from higher mods is that they've already suggested those things to admin and its up to them to implement said changes. But yeah I think new accounts shouldn't be able to PM or post pics for 25 post, and shouldn't be able to use the forsale/trade and WTB forums for 50 post. That would stop or at least slow a lot of the bot/scam accounts.

Sir 51D3WAYS and st_dragn_wagen its just weird because there groups with over 800 members (bot) either join a group at random and post a link or start a completely new group
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I am surprised they didn't say white supremacist

its sad when you can no longer tell what's satire and what's a leftist headline. that is literally the most retarded thing iv read in at least a week.

that is a joke right? like seriously. im asking seriously. i can't tell anymore. (... how fucking sad is that?)

there are legit groups on here. you just have to go back like 13 pages/10 years to find one. and then they haven't seen any real action and haven't been used sense like 2016.