This is all wishful thinking. The admin has made clear he's not interested in actively moderating this board. He claims it's about free speech but IMO that's mostly virtue signaling.
Realistically, if admin moves the most obvious off-topic threads (political, racist, conspiracy, M777) to Chit Chat in a timely manner, deletes personal info, and bans multiple handles, that's probably as good as it'll get. For everything else, just put the shills, spammers, trolls, and other useless members on ignore.
Someone above suggested the ability to put threads on ignore. That would be great too, but that's a function of the forum software. I looked into this and the are a few add ons for this:
I've been asked to install an addon to Ignore threads, but it seems there should be an Ignore threads function built-in XF2? Where is it? After searching the forum here, I looked in the admin panel on our forum, but any search result isn't pointing to it. Thanks in advance, Andre
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@admin how about it? If you won't moderate, give us more options to self-moderate.