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So, come June 29th if I'm still concerned about how ballots are written I can propose something.
Actually Trudy, my reading of it is that you'd have to overturn the moritorium decision itself, in order to revisit an individual decision in less than 6 months.
Edited to add..
further discussion on a given matter should be closed for 6 months. If this initiative passes, we agree at 3 months from the day (date) the poll closes, to take a vote of confidence on this decision (only), to see if we think 6 months is too long, too short, or just right.
This decision will stand until June 29th, at which point it may be revisited.
My concept is different because my concern is different, but the net result would be the same. Ten people can now click-up and, ultimately, boot someone off the board.
(and, yeah, the 24/48 was a mix-up)
My concept is different because my concern is different, but the net result would be the same. Ten people can now click-up and, ultimately, boot someone off the board.
I still am not seeing where you are getting this.
Any ten posters can (upon stating publically within 24 hours of each other) for any reason officially censure (and ultimately ban) another poster.
But it's not "for any reason." The first person has to provide reasons why, and it has to have been discussed in-thread first. I also think that people here have enough sense that something that's obviously for no reason will be ignored.
If I and ten friends officially had a problem with, say, the word "cunt" and the offenders refused to stop saying it they could be warned, suspended and then banned.
If I and ten friends officially had a problem with, say, the word "cunt" and the offenders refused to stop saying it they could be warned, suspended and then banned.
But you don't. And "cunt" is not in any way a violation of the community standards, so it wouldn't really be a valid complaint anyway.
And "cunt" is not in any way a violation of the community standards
Unless what we've done is change the way "community standards" are determined.
I ask George to stop using the word "cunt".
He doesn't.
My friends do too
He still doesn't
I lodge a complaint. I link to the refusals as evidence. The other ten people second me. The letter goes out.
It doesn't matter that the vast majority of people have no problem with the word "cunt" because there is no place in that scenario for them to stop the action.
No, what we've done is provided a process for dealing with what happens when they've been broken. When to warn, not what to warn about.
If ten people agree that they've been broken they now have.
If ten people agree that they've been broken they now have.
Trudy, WTF?
Your logic is totally escaping me here.
If someone complains in thread that BuffistaX is using cunt, not caring about context, the complainer is a hell of a lot more likely to get slapped with "we swear. deal."
FWIW, this has happened in Spoilers, and semi-recently.
If, however, BuffistaX is calling, say, Character or Actress Y a cunt, or using it to describe BuffistaZ, I can see action happening.
