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OzPol sinking rapidly!
Oct 4^th, 2025 at 8:06pm

JohnSmith banned once again because FD can’t explain himself.

JohnSmith is happy to be permanently banned from this rapidly sinking forum.

Seems Karnal is banned YET AGAIN! Brian STILL BANNED!

OzPol cannot survive with these stupid, senseless bans!

FD, FFS realise your forum is sinking rapidly! END the STUPID BANS you have going now!

FFS, like 210 posts today, under 200 posts tomorrow? FD, wake up, FFS!

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Re: OzPol sinking rapidly!
Reply #1 - Oct 5^th, 2025 at 4:50pm

SEO—Search Engine Optimisation—rank of OzPol has declined so much firms measuring SEO rankings can’t get a reading.

This is a response by GoogleAI:
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"Professional SEO data providers like Semrush, Ahrefs, or Moz did not have sufficient data on ozpolitic.com to appear in the search results. This suggests the site's overall visibility and traffic are very low, making it difficult for these services to track its performance."

Here is Google AI Opinion:

AI Overview

While an exact, official SEO ranking is not publicly available, indications suggest that ozpolitic.com has a declining search engine presence.

Several factors likely contribute to this decline:

Low-quality content: Ozpolitic.com is a political forum, and a key factor in strong SEO is authoritative, cited content. The forum lacks this, with participants failing to cite credible sources.

Outdated content: Search results indicate content on the site is very old, with some forum posts dating back to 2008 and 2011.

Content freshness is a significant ranking factor for search engines.

Outdated website format: Forum posts from 2008 and 2011 link to the Yahoo! Bulletin Board (YaBB) platform. This suggests the site is running on very old software, which often lacks modern security, speed, and mobile-friendly features that are essential for SEO.

Lack of official ranking data:

Professional SEO data providers like Semrush, Ahrefs, or Moz did not have sufficient data on ozpolitic.com to appear in the search results. This suggests the site's overall visibility and traffic are very low, making it difficult for these services to track its performance.

Time something was done!

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Jovial Monk Moderator Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 50554 Gender:	Re: OzPol sinking rapidly! Reply #2 - Oct 6^th, 2025 at 1:51am Crap modding doesn’t help OzPol flourish. Attacking members’ families is really crap!
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Re: OzPol sinking rapidly!
Reply #3 - Oct 7^th, 2025 at 5:20am

Want to see how crap modding is destroying OzPol?

Look at Food, the thread on the rye DIPA I was drinking. The two clowns, Booby and Gordon trolling continuously. Neither GMod nor MRB Mod taking any action but by inaction allowing trolling to destroy OzPol.

This trolling is ongoing for years now. Action by a Mod much earlier would have prevented the crap we saw, two clowns with nothing real to offer OzPol just trolling.

One troll, the brainless Booby, had started a thread in Health that he wanted less to do with me. But couldn’t resist trolling me.

Downhill heads OzPol, faster and faster.

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Jovial Monk Moderator Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 50554 Gender:	Re: OzPol sinking rapidly! Reply #4 - Oct 11^th, 2025 at 3:55pm Nice to see that Karnal is back.
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Jovial Monk Moderator Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 50554 Gender:	Re: OzPol sinking rapidly! Reply #5 - Oct 12^th, 2025 at 11:59am Brian is back, Karnal is back. John Smith is STILL banned, just for asking FD a question! Crazy!
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Re: OzPol sinking rapidly!
Reply #6 - Oct 12^th, 2025 at 2:40pm

Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 12^th, 2025 at 11:59am:

Brian is back, Karnal is back.

John Smith is STILL banned, just for asking FD a question! Crazy!

Funny, given FD's predilection for asking questions based on factual errors.

But:

https://forums.feedspot.com/australia_forums/

According to this list, ozpol is #5, and the preceding 4 appear to be devoted to specific issues....which makes ozpol the #1 all ecompassing politics debating forum in Oz?

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Jovial Monk Moderator Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 50554 Gender:	Re: OzPol sinking rapidly! Reply #7 - Oct 12^th, 2025 at 2:59pm It is declining fast. YABB is outdated, can’t make it mobilke–friendly, always seems to have slowdowns making it unattractive. I would like to see action taken to reverse or at least slow the decline. To encourage that I post stats on the declining daily post count and post about improving SEO ranking.
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Re: OzPol sinking rapidly!
Reply #8 - Oct 12^th, 2025 at 3:34pm

Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 12^th, 2025 at 2:59pm:

It is declining fast.

As fast as the loss of respect for the democratic process?

Which in my view is caused by a failing Neoclassical economic orthodoxy which pits taxpayer agianst taxpayer.

MMT shows us currency-issuing goverments can be self-funding.

"It's the economy, stupid".

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YABB is outdated, can’t make it mobilke–friendly, always seems to have slowdowns making it unattractive.

I would like to see action taken to reverse or at least slow the decline. To encourage that I post stats on the declining daily post count and post about improving SEO ranking.

OK, improvements in the forum's operations always welcome.

But the current silo-ization of online debate - the result of economc orthodoxy accepted as "truth", is far more destructive of debate itself.

Note: in the post WW2 Keynesian 'welfare state'/deficit spending era, social cohesion was stronger, with less socially destructive hyper-partisanship.

Hence the rise of the 'populist Right', as the 'welfare state' is rejected even by the Left, and the middle achieves nothing...see Macron's France; and can Albo survive the Oz housing crisis?

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Jovial Monk Moderator Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 50554 Gender:	Re: OzPol sinking rapidly! Reply #9 - Oct 12^th, 2025 at 7:18pm Setanta is banned from Critters and Gardens for attacking both my parents. Consequently I have deleted his two posts made today.
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Jovial Monk Moderator Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 50554 Gender:	Re: OzPol sinking rapidly! Reply #10 - Oct 12^th, 2025 at 7:40pm Instead of issuing bans for posting in a MRB that a member is permanently banned from why not have the GMods implement the ban so a permanently banned member cannot post in the MRB they are banned from, like most of OzPol can’t post in Feedback.
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Re: OzPol sinking rapidly!
Reply #11 - Oct 13^th, 2025 at 6:29pm

Just remembered.

There was a member called IIRC “JC DENTON.”

He complained about how slow OzPol/YABB was, threatened to leave. Guess what—he did leave!

Before him, election for Mod of Environment. Somebody with smarts and education with the handle of “The Barnacle” ran against a high school dropout.

The high school dropout apparently “won” the election—a tragic turning point in OzPol survival.

Barnacle was offered the “Atheism” MRB but eventually left OzPol. That is when OzPol started dying.

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