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
But I think it's a touch disingenous to ignore the punitive connotations such a notice would have.
Is it necessarily more punitive than a warning posted in the thread where the offense occured? (Which is my understanding of how the warning system was originally supposed to work, though in this case it doesn't seem to have happened that way.)
Another reason I think warning should go in Press is to guarantee that the person recieving the warning sees it. If someone doesn't read this thread or check their profile email regularly, or somehow skips past the warning in the thread where the offense occured, they may not even realize that they've been Stomped. If the warning's in Press, there's really no way for them to miss it.
Jess, I think that official warnings are sent by email to the person, for precisely the reason you mention.
Is it necessarily more punitive than a warning posted in the thread where the offense occured?
considers.
Hmm. Okay, maybe not.
Fwiw, though, I actually dip into
Press
pretty infrequently myself, so if y'all had been emailing a dusty email address to bitchslap me for being patronising/passive agressive/talking funny it's quite possible that I wouldn't notice it in
Press
for ages either.
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I don't like the idea of the notice in Press. Email feels better to me. I have fled this thread before and found just skipping to recent would let me know if the issue was resolved. Also, the end to discussion seems to filter over to the other threads.
I think sending an email and posting it in the thread where the person is, is sufficient.
Agreed with Allyson (and everyone else). Press feels like a public spanking.
I don't think the not-on-permanent-record message that I sent warrants Press notification, though.
Press guarantees nothing, e-mail guarantees nothing, in the thread where the poster posts guarantees nothing.
Unfortunately.
Personally, on this level, I'm most comfortable with e-mail and Kafka. If you come into Kafka to request something and don't stick around to see how it plays out? Oh, well.
Can I ask a question?
Not to be contrary, but just because, frankly, ya'll fascinate me: Isn't a 300+ conversation in Bureaucracy about just how much Buffistina Mcpaininthearse needs a warning because of x,y, and z instances of annoyance also akin to a public flogging?
I think it would be if no one were arguing that B McP didn't and we were just going on about it with no arguments to the contrary. It also might seem like less of one if the person being discussed would discuss the behavior with us.
I can see that us talking about it with out them here to defend themselves can seem like a flogging, but that's not really our fault.
