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 Post subject: What don't to do and when I will shut down the site
PostPosted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:07 am 
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I received a PM about images and attachments inquiring basically "to what level will I allow things that may be offensive to some people".

I have no problem with the question or the questioner, so I thought I'd address it globally, for those of you who weren't scaratings members before or are hazy.

We never had any problems in the past. I don't want to have any problems in the future. I don't even have time for this post. This site was resurrected based on past experience that I didn't have to worry about pornography being posted or hate speech filling the threads or whatever disgusting crap exists out there.

It fits under Dante's One Rule for Them All, Don't be a jerk. If you think something might be on the edge of acceptability, do me a favor and don't post it.

I'm no Polly Purebread, but this a volunteer site with volunteer admin.

If it becomes an issue, I'll just shut it down. If you don't want that to happen, self policing worked in the past and should work again.

Here was my PM response:

Well, obviously no pornography, cruelty, hate speech etc, etc.

I discussed eliminating images with Dante to start, I was hoping we weren't going to have to go there.

Curse words don't bother me much, unless they are derogatorily used to other members. If that offends people at work, I would suggest not letting other people see what you are doing, or access the site from a nonwork environment.

I hope we'll self police, as I have no time for continuous moderation of the site.

If people post bad pictures or ridiculous texts, I'll delete them and warn them.

If it continues I'll ban them and attempt to not let them rejoin.

If there are continual problems, I'll turn off the ability to post images .

If there are still problems, I'll shut it down, wouldn't be worth the trouble, and I'll do it quickly.


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 Post subject: Re: What don't to do and when I will shut down the site
PostPosted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:01 pm 
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Moderating Hobbit
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I thought I'd add one line to this, due to an e-mail I got:

1) Public entities are not people. I don't care if you hate Microsoft or Buzztime or any other business (no, this was not related to Foobar's post!).

No, I will not remove or moderates things attacking businesses -- just other people on this board.

Scar and I are relatively both on the same page (probably because we work in the same place!) in that I don't think either of us have the energy to be peoples' babysitters.

Thanks!

Grumpy Old Management


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 Post subject: Re: What don't to do and when I will shut down the site
PostPosted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:47 pm 
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Wow I'm gone a couple of days and this pops up. :roll:


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