Hm. I wrote this Safety Page long ago, and you're welcome to rip anything from it if it helps with harassment language.
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
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 sorry, but I think that comment this morning is unclear to the point that I can't decide if I think it's offensive or not.
snerk. You've just described the entire Zoe experience.
Yes, a system.
I think this is one of those things we may need to vote on.
Where do we stand on making motions for votes?
LJ, do you have no problems with the idea of anonymous complaints against you?
Logically, I understand why we should keep the procedure in the sunshine. Emotionally, I feel that if someone were being such a pain in the ass that ten people took the time to email a specific complaint to a stompy, they already probably pretty much know what they're doing and may well know who they're pissing off.
But: Point taken, point understood, proposal withdrawn.
I have to go do work.
You've just described the entire Zoe experience.
Well, except for those times when I am clear that stuff is offensive.
I think that since PF and WX are still Buffista fora, they're subject to the same CS as here.
However, that little snippet doesn't make a bit of sense to me, so I can't really offer an opinion about whether or not it's hostile. Sorry!
Ah. But here, a flame war would, I'm pretty sure, lead to warning/suspension more quickly than anything else.
Awhile back in Angel, Wenda called Tim a coward with no balls. I wanted to go through the screen, and thought it was a big toasty flame.
No one really called her on it, so I thought I was insane. Was that not a flame that merited a warning?
What about my obvious smacking around of Zoe? Shouldn't I have been warned? I was flaming her, and I meant to do it. Where be my spanking?
See, I think the difference is pervasiveness. Zoe is pervasively an asshole. Ban. Her.
I'm sorry, but I think that comment this morning is unclear to the point that I can't decide if I think it's offensive or not.
Calling us vengeful zealots? Seems pretty damn clear to me. And pretty fucking insulting.
And she has not bothered to reply to my request to clarify it.
Having skipped the last 600-odd posts to find that y'all are still discussing how to deal with Zoe in the particular and trollish behavior in the general, I agree with Msbelle that enforcement of community standards is one of the things that this community needs to vote on. Therefore, I second the call for proposals and a vote.
Don't be sorry, Jessica. It was the third in a series of posts about hating how the forum was empty, and I read it that she was pissed that we were all "hiding". The link: [link] may clear it up. Or probably not.