Agreed!. The most successful and long lived lists have been those which
have a very minimum of rules such as "no personal attacks" and "no
profanity". Most of us live in a sea of rules, so a place that has no
rules besides one or two is a welcome place to spend our spare time.
Gerry
On 3/27/2014 8:17 PM, Hendrik and Fay wrote:
I don't think a very strict code of conduct will do anything to
improve the list, the end result being half the list dobs the other
half in for minor violations.
Even the original demand for moderation left a bitter taste in the
mouth, that sort of thing should be done in private I think.
What about links that contain 'adult' content or referencing a story
that includes vulgar stuff.
(it is netiquette to include a warning if a posted link contains
mature content, ie NSFW (for those who don't know that one: Not Safe
For Work, plenty of people have gotten into trouble for clicking on a
link that they got in the email and all off a sudden there are female
breasts bouncing on the screen))
If we get to the stage where everyone is on their tippy toes scared to
say or post stuff because someone may take mild offence, this list
will become pretty barren and soulless.
Every good list/forum needs to have a bit of fun off topic banter,
sure there needs to be limits but I think self moderation is the order
of the day at this stage.
If that don't work out, then we can revisit this.
Remember folks it wasn't profanity that was the problem it was how
that profanity was used towards others.
Anyway end of the day it's up to Kaleb to determine the standard of
behaviour here and we all have to abide by his decision.
I may have mentioned that I am a mod on the OzBenz list and part of
the job is to monitor what people say, the standard there is PG to
mild M rating, so I let some words slide but censor others. Unless
it's a bad violation I usually just edit the post by replacing the bad
word with a less bad word. If the poster has a problem or is a serial
offender than it's up to the admins to deal with it, as it is not my
job to warn people.
WTF is not a drama there and we even have a emoticon that waves a flag
with the initial BS on them, which I surmise stands for bloody stupid?
Actually we have a section for 'tell him he's dreaming' (kinda like
crackhead of the day here) and WTF and the BS smily are there just
about every day.
We have a fairly broad membership at OzBenz, ranging from young people
who own or want to own a Benz as their first car up to pretty old
folk. So we try to accomodate all of them and have sections for
modifying Benzes, where people who like originality should not go and
recently we set up a section for adult stuff. This actually came about
after I had an altercation with someone about their standard of
behaviour and what he was posting in the forum. Funny thing is that it
gets very little traffic but is handy if a thread starts to get out of
control, as they sometimes do.
Hendrik
who may have said the word bugger once or twice but thinks he got away
with it
On 27/03/14 23:32, Craig wrote:
On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:33:31 -0400 "arche...@embarqmail.com"
<arche...@embarqmail.com> wrote:
Kaleb was the first person I heard use it. Acronyms like WTF should be
no problem, but thinly disguised profanity might since it sounds
sh-tty.
Gerry
I vote for strict interpretation of Kaleb's statement on this list. That
is what it always has been and that's why Banned existed.
Craig
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