A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
I'm an -ista in only the loosest sense... that is, I post sometimes. But it seems to me that in a community where policies are clearly laid out, if someone violates that policy, they aren't justified in suggesting some sort of "Big Brother" creature keeping the little people down.
At base, this board is a private entity, and the people established as its administrators are right in doing what they will, including calling people names. Buffistas are above that, but this is the sandbox of the people who code it and run it, and when people have problems with that, Bureaucracy is clearly the place to discuss them.
Community standards are important; but there has to be someone at the topmost level who decides where expectations, standards, and policies are distinct from one another.
I guess basically what I'm saying is, I trust the admins here to do what needs to be done. If this someday leads to banning me, I won't be happy about it but will try to accept it with grace and without putting forth a conspiracy theory.
"/mieskie" (with the slash), just registered. Should we do something?
No, I say delete him right away.
also there's a "mmmieskie".
Can I have permission to delete them/inactivate them?
I say it's a weird-ass name and it's not a coincidence.
mmmieskie is already inactive -- that happened this morning. As for /mieskie, you can't deactivate him usefully until he's validated his membership. But you can change the e-mail address and reset the password -- that way he'll never know what the new one is.
Neither of them has the 'active' box checked.
What's that about?
Can I have permission to delete them/inactivate them?
Delete. Even if its not the same person (and it probably is), it's willful mischief to use the name at this point and bad form.
Jon, tell him that username is disallowed. I assume it's a different email addy?
I like Ita's method. It's clever.
E-mail addresses have to be unique.
