The difference is that attackee made a complaint in the first case, and did not in the second.Tancorix wrote: What's the difference here between an "attack" via sig line, and an "attack" via post? One violates the TOS and the other doesn't?
Rather, they give the community to opportunity to respond or not, they give each directly-involved community member an option for recourse if they don't want to have this kind of interaction. It removes some of the editorial burden from the hands of the few (admins) and places it on the individuals involved. This in addition to the existing option of simply ignoring the threads you don't like.tancorix wrote:
The statements above basically give WSPR and similar socks free reign to say almost anything and if a 3rd party complains the admins will do nothing? This guts the TOS. It's worthless. All the work put into it means squat.
And, seriously, if we had to remove all the posts that included exchanges that 3rd parties didn't like, we would have to gut half of the existing eplaya.
Yes, there is an admin review board, which will include an as-yet-to-be-determined, non-Project affiliated member of the Eplaya. The other admins are in place now, but we want to wait until after the event to get a community member involved (too many folks are too busy to have the conversation now). The admin review team will generate a regular report to my manager and case studies will be escalated as needed.tancorix wrote: I hope someone reviews these decisions....and gets the courage to enforce the rules with consistency.
I do appreciate your loyal defense of the people involved in this particular case, however you don't seem to be understanding the most relevant point: Marian isn't making a complaint. She is fully aware of these posts and she doesn't care. She does not want us to act on this and has bigger things to spend her time dealing with.
Heck, when WSPR was at it and I told Larry about it, he just laughed.
It is clear that you do care, Tancorix. I do too. But it's not my personal call. Balancing on the tightrope of moderation, with the benevolent helping hand on one side and censorship on the other is tricky. So many people here do like a serious dust-up that we literally don't have the manpower to go searching, investigating ("did Janie really mean to call Johnny a "clueless fucktard", or were they joking?") and acting on every post that comes across as insulting. If this really were my personal board, it'd be a different story, but I don't make the rules here - you do.
If you want to change them, well that's fine by us. All you need to do is come up with the alternative you want, put it out to the community for feedback, and if there is community support for it, we will happily amend the Community Guidelines.
