Motherless needs a soft reboot as a website.
The fact that so many posts disappear in the void between pages 1 and 2 and has for years without being addressed is annoying.
Beyond that accounts arbitrarily being banned and deleted without reason by mods that hide behind anonymity without ever showing themselves is deeply troubling and indicative of the culture that has grown and fostered over the last nearly 20 years that I have been frequenting this website. I have only ever seen one account labeled as a mod and I can't imagine with the traffic that comes through here and the amount of content and posters that are deleted regularly that it's just one person who administers for the entire site. I'd like to call on motherless to make changes towards more transparency of who the mods are and hold them accountable for what they do, or the lack there of. A new system needs to be instituted giving account holders a reason why an account gets deleted, either by disabling am accounts ability to post, create, or add content pending a requested review of why that account was disabled at the request of the owner or an email sent to the address associated with the account giving people some sort recourse against the faceless mod community. I know motherless experiences a high traffic volume as a website and that's what has kept these policies in place for so long without any real recourse because of motherless's motto of being "a moral free website where anything legal posted is hosted forever" which isn't actually true.
I do love motherless and I do love frequenting this site but the latest incident of having my account deleted for no obvious reason, I wasn't not posting anything against you or replying to posts that violate tos, makes me reconsider the time I've spent in this community and on this site. If motherless does have an actual lack of mods or people to work in those positions I would gladly volunteer my time and effort to make and keep this website to the highest standard that it can be without arbitrarily handing out bans without reason and I'm sure that there are many members both current and former that would volunteer their time too.
I would say without these changes motherless will die but that would be an exaggeration for the most part as I'm sure that motherless will continue to exist with the lure of it being "a moral free zone" for quite some time but I can say that a lot of great posters and content have left the site once people get tired of how they're treated. Maybe it's all just a slow death but it's also a needless one as there is great potential here. I'm sure this will be deleted given how I am calling out issues with the site and and staff trying to bring them to the forefront by some nameless mod but let's try as a community to come together, keep this relevant and list our issues and grievances in the comments to try to bring about change to make this website the best on the Internet it can be. Thank you for your time if you read this.
