Re: Quick question about the forums By Deathscythe Hell. 15/07/10, 04:25 am |
| This sort of discussion can go from civil to flame war very quick tho.ive seen it before on other sites that havent banned discussion on it.
But if you guys dont think it should be whatevz im bearly on here so i guess it doesnt matter to much to me.Just wanted to proved help to stop some trouble that could potenitaly happen due to there not being any rules on it. |
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Re: Quick question about the forums By JVCA. 15/07/10, 04:32 am |
| Jeez, this thread is ridiculous. Here's the official mod response, and I'm locking this thread because it is all just a bunch of SILLYBZNS.
TL;DR: We allow discussion, not arguement here. You wanna discuss a delicate subject? Totes fine so long as you are mature about it and it doesn't breach the PG-13 rule. It is NOT acceptable to make confrontational posts (of which I see one or two here from all parties B|) because THAT is what turns a thread from a discussion to an arguement.
Discussions are interesting and widen people's fields of view, but arguements are petty and timewasting.
As such, we mod on a thread-by-thread basis. We identify threads that have the potential to get out of hand and watch them like hawks. If someone overreacts or takes offense, depending on the scale of the dramu we either delete the posts that made the thread go downhill (for example, in this one I'd be eeleting Pseudonym's post for it's accusatory tone. We call this purging) or if the thread is not salvagable, we confiscate it to a hidden forum to keep as evidence.
Either way, we issue warnings to those who made the thread go sour. You may have noticed there's no rule against political/religious discussion, but there IS a rule against making comments designed to start an arguement, and we use that heavily in dramu. We also have a rule against making hateful comments which often is violated in dramu.
Basically -
"I physics hate Greenpeace, they're all a punch of pothead wankers!" = NOT okay
"I dislike Greenpeace for their affinity with marijuana legalisation and the impact they have on commercial entities when they try to inflict their ideals on other people." = awesome.
The first is someone being a whiny little smarmy wrench who's out to offend people. The latter createsthe start of an interesting discussion.
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I hope this makes sense - I just woke up. Anyone with queries can PM a mod; I'm locking this topic. |
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Re: Quick question about the forums By jpwise. 15/07/10, 04:33 am |
| *snap* beaten to the mod reply by JVCA. But there you go.
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The mods are generally the people with coloured names. You can see the legend at the bottom of the homepage. http://forum.cosplay.co.nz/forum.htm
As a general rule of thumb 'reasoned debate' is welcome when it's in the right section of the forum. By reasoned debate I mean a reasoned discussion that doesn't deteriorate into antagonistic comments against people, their beliefs, or their faiths. If you don't agree with someone that is entirely your opinion, and doesn't invalidate the other persons views in the least. If you attack them personally for no other reason than their views differ to your own, and it deteriorates, the mods can, and will step in. Your comments about "Also alot of people dont like to hear the facts saying what they belive in is a lie..." are the type of comments we do not like to see. You are welcome to correct someone if they are in error by giving a reason "ie: I don't believe that's correct because of xyz" and site a source if available. Simply saying "you're wrong and an idiot if you believe that" will see the mods step in and issue a warning. Once you use up your warnings, you're banned. That's it, no coming back.
Religion and Politics are powder keg type topics, and any thread on them will be heavily monitored. But as an example the sex thread has been running for some time without issue, and people have kept their noses in line and actually had a reasonable (and quite educational in most cases) discussion on the topic of sex, without it deteriorating into a cesspit.
Hope that answers your question, and if you can also please try to refrain from similar comments to the one I quoted above.
Thanks. Jp - part of the Mod Team.
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