Ju Ju Master wrote:
While these discussions are important (If people don't get this stuff out, nothing gets resolved - that's my view) this really isn't the thread to discuss them. This thread is about your overall opinion of the forum, not which members suck and who hates who and whether or not people are getting banned. Make another thread if you guys want, but keep it out of this one.
Actually, this would be the thread to do it in, because without getting our grievances and feelings out, our overall opinion of the forum will decline, yet we would stay in a state of fake bliss instead of true happiness.
Now, in my opinion, the forum is at a low point when it comes to creativity, but thats something that can easily be fixed. When it comes to behavior, we all tend to behave pretty good, and occassionally we throw around an insult or two, but usually they're just thrown as jokes. Now, the point we're on now is that people should learn to take jokes, and the counter point is that people should stop with the insults.
What classifies an insult? The insult used? The tone the insult is conveyed in? saying something like "Yeah, whatever, shut up" after a long section of debating, I'd probably consider that an insult, but I wouldn't call it a personal attack. Harrassment, on the other hand, would be kind of what Lahi is doing towards BTG. What Lahi is doing is constantly following him around and searching for a time when he would fly off the handle because he's jealous of his moderator title. And when BTG starts to make points, Lahi goes in and pretty much says that it was a bad idea to make him a mod. In my book, thats harassment. When I told that chick "Stop jewing/socializing up my thread," that would be considered Bigotry, and I was properly reprimanded for it. Now, lets say if I said something similar to say...Ace, and it was in Random Thoughts. That wouldn't be considered Bigotry, its banter. The same thing goes with what we sort of do to Abu or to anyone who generally makes an idiot of themselves, we banter them. Usually they make a counter to our banter, and it either ends there, or it gets personal. THATS when it turns into harassment.
Judgment of what is and what isn't harassment on an internet forum is hard, mainly because its hard to tell banter from harassment.
Second, Mods, if we do something wrong, send us a PM to tell us so we know exactly what we did, and if we have to, we'll explain it to you the best we can.
What else?