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Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!  

We open it up, we talks the talk, we votes, we shuts it down. This thread is to free up Bureaucracy for daily details as we hammer out the Big Issues towards a vote. Open only when a proposal has been made and seconded according to Buffista policy (Which we voted on!). If this thread is closed, hie thee to Bureaucracy instead!


bitterchick - Apr 16, 2003 10:46:08 am PDT #864 of 10289

Hmmm. Okay. Like:

If a poster goes off on us on their webpage, or somewhere else on the net, it's ..

None of our business. We don't like it, it's not cool but we can't use it against them as a reason why they shouldn't be here. But WX and PF aren't just "somewhere else on the net", they're part of the Buffista community. So I think a suspended poster posting there is doing the same thing as if s/he had come to the Phoenix, registered under a new name and posted. And we consider that a bannable offense, no?


justkim - Apr 16, 2003 10:49:24 am PDT #865 of 10289
Another social casualty...

bitterchick, I think if the poster in questions links to their webpage on one of our fora, as Z did in PF, it becomes fair game for complaint.


§ ita § - Apr 16, 2003 10:49:43 am PDT #866 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

bc, I consider our space on WX pretty clearly ours, although we lack some of the control we have here.

PF? We have no teeth. It's like her standing across the street from our house spouting obscenities. We might be able to get her kicked off someone else's front lawn, if they see our side, but she's not on our property, although she's made it completely clear we can't have her back.


Cindy - Apr 16, 2003 10:53:59 am PDT #867 of 10289
Nobody

If a poster goes off on us on their webpage, or somewhere else on the net, it's ..

None of our business. We don't like it, it's not cool but we can't use it against them as a reason why they shouldn't be here.

Okay bitterchick. So if a Buffista threatens you somewhere else, because of incidents at a Buffista site, it's still cool beans to have them here? Interesting.


Beverly - Apr 16, 2003 11:05:38 am PDT #868 of 10289
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

ita, you have email, which now that I've caught up here, is completely irrelevant. Sorry.


bitterchick - Apr 16, 2003 11:08:28 am PDT #869 of 10289

bitterchick, I think if the poster in questions links to their webpage on one of our fora, as Z did in PF, it becomes fair game for complaint.

Okay yes. If they link it here. But if I decide that I want to turn the front page of my LJ into "All Buffistas are FUCKOS" and don't mention it here, I don't think you can bring it here.

So if a Buffista threatens you somewhere else, because of incidents at a Buffista site, it's still cool beans to have them here?

Cindy, perhaps I am misreading your tone. Because it feels like you're being awfully flip to someone who has had this very thing happen to them. Not here but elsewhere on the net. Which I kind of thought you knew.

I don't take threats lightly. There's nothing quite like the joy of recieving an email detailing what someone would do to you if they ever got you in a dark alley. Or when posters actually go out into real life situations and do things like slash the top on your convertible. Fuck with your gas line. Slip notes under the door to your apartment. A threat is something completely different and not what I was talking about.


Lyra Jane - Apr 16, 2003 11:16:15 am PDT #870 of 10289
Up with the sun

If they link it here. But if I decide that I want to turn the front page of my LJ into "All Buffistas are FUCKOS" and don't mention it here, I don't think you can bring it here.

Agreed, but what if (hypothetically) you have a link to your LJ in your profile? Is that enough indication that you wanted everyone to read your "FUCKO" message to be considered the same as posting here?

Personally, I'd like to only consider behavior here and in affiliated fora. If something is both disturbing and directly linked (e.g., "Here's what I really think of you guys" linked to the "All Buffistas are fuckos" LJ entry), I would say the link makes it functionally the same as posting it here. But I don't want anyone to get in trouble if they were trying to vent privately.


Jessica - Apr 16, 2003 11:20:14 am PDT #871 of 10289
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I think in the case of a physical threat, the person should be banned immediately, regardless of whether the threat is posted.

In Zoe's case, if she hadn't cross-posted what she said to PF, I wouldn't consider her comments threats. Threatening, maybe, but also too incoherent for me to get anything out of them other than she doesn't like us very much.


Jesse - Apr 16, 2003 11:25:51 am PDT #872 of 10289
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Agreed, but what if (hypothetically) you have a link to your LJ in your profile? Is that enough indication that you wanted everyone to read your "FUCKO" message to be considered the same as posting here?

It's not the same as posting here, but I do think it can come into play.


bitterchick - Apr 16, 2003 11:27:22 am PDT #873 of 10289

Is that enough indication that you wanted everyone to read your "FUCKO" message to be considered the same as posting here?

I think we're heading into murky waters. I feel like we can only enforce CS within the community. To try and govern other sandboxes beyond our own bothers me greatly on many levels.