The board has the tools available to deal with it, should it happen again, and one occasion of anything is not something to legislate for. I appreciate that a malicious troll is a serious occasion, but the "differences in humour" reason that dragged this issue over to this side of the board and got it some support, is a different issue than a "malicious troll" issue and it feels like one issue is being stabbed from behind the arras, using the other.
The issue was not really difference of humor, it was IDing posters. No one suggested that the current sockpuppets were trolls. People want to be able to ID sockpuppets or any other multiple log-ins.
Except, you know, that the bothered people have all said "Yeah, if you cop to it in the profile, I can cope."
Not all of us.
But as I've resolved not to ever mention this issue again, you can count me as abstaining.
and if we aren't gonna write this down as what those who are talking here have consensused to, then how will new posters know about it? And if it not a written "rule" then why should they follow it? And if the refuse to abide by it, then would that qualify as demon-like behavior?
msbelle, do you consider points of etiquette that are in the ettiquette thingy, hard and fast-ish "rules"?
The issue was not really difference of humor, it was IDing posters. No one suggested that the current sockpuppets were trolls. People want to be able to ID sockpuppets or any other multiple log-ins.
This is how I see the issue too. I don't think it has anything to do with regulating humor. People can make all the jokes they want. They just need to put their real ID in their sockpuppet profile.
when there is a action - result listed, I do.
- spoilers, natter in Press/Apoc, demon-like behavior, NAFDA, and don;t spam.
I think of all of those as rules/policies of the board.
Again, I think we can make changes to Etiquette by consensus.
Changes to Policy by vote.
I think we should deal with this as an Etiquette question.
I am one hundred percent in this corner.
still watching the debate though it seemed settled very amicably last night
I feel like I need to point out that a few people coming to apparent agreement is not the same as the issue being settled for the whole board. I didn't even read this discussion until today, and it bothers me to think that it was all "settled" before I had voiced an opinion, or even formed one.
Which is not to say that I am against consensus. We seem to have one as far as "sockpuppets should have real IDs in their profiles" goes. How to implement that is still under debate.
