How is it an enjoyable place to pull up a chair when there is an officially endorsed poster who goes around specifically trying to incite and upset other people?ImLawBoy wrote:After reviewing the events of recent weeks and months, staff has decided to make some modifications to the Code of Conduct. Our goal here is to try to make the forum community a place where everyone feels welcome, and that is an enjoyable place to pull up a chair and post a while. At the same time, we are aware there are certain types of disruptions that are causing the community harm, and we want to be able to address those on the rare occasions when they occur.
The first change is the following addition to the "About the Octopus Overlords forums" section:The second change is the following addition to the "Self Moderation" guideline:In extraordinary circumstances, if staff feels that a poster is causing significant harm and disruption for the sole purpose of causing that harm, then staff may choose to remove that poster from the community. This will not occur in response to unpopular opinions or philosophies, or to the reasonable defense of those ideas. This is at the sole discretion of staff.The underlined portion is the new portion of this section.Sometimes, two people - two otherwise normal, intelligent, decent, rational people - just will not like each other. That's life. Please just ignore those posters and pursue your own discussions. Leave any disagreements you have in the threads they take place in. If you can't come to terms with each other, it is not acceptable to disrupt the forums, derail threads, or harass the other person in order to continue your private war.
That is not welcoming. That is being a bully because no one can/will stop him.Rip wrote:No effective in getting peoples panties in a wad so they can rant as they are prone to do.
Your welcome.
EDIT: To be clear, I don't give a damn about his political or moral views. I'm talking about the explicit desire to upset other people. He could be using stupid liberal bullshit to upset conservatives and it would be just as wrong and just as unwelcoming.