(February 15, 2016 at 4:44 am)SteelCurtain Wrote:(February 15, 2016 at 3:52 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: Why is it inappropriate for the entire membership to see it and why do you think it wouldn't be conducive to keeping members around?
Because the entire purpose of creating said thread would be to put a person on blast in front of everyone. This would create an environment in which people might feel like if they screw up, they'll be publically shamed. Also, it assumes the person who created the thread has the ability/knowledge to determine what is a rule violation and what is not. The fact is, the vast majority of the reports we get are voted "no action." If everyone who reported those threads were to make a public thread, we'd have hundreds of threads calling out people for doing something that the staff would deem not a violation. Lastly, sometimes the "no action" votes wouldn't be so popular among the forum-at-large. If these "reports" were made publicly, it would put undue influence on the staff to act by what's popular, rather than abiding by the rules.
(February 15, 2016 at 3:52 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: Also, do you agree that people on this site mostly use the New Posts or Today's Posts features to navigate and view different threads and posts and not the different sections of the forum that divide the types of threads thematically, and so how does it make sense to disallow someone from doing this in a thread especially created with this purpose in mind and not someone who does it in an ongoing thread about something else? If the purpose here is for the members not to have to see it then, surely, that purpose is not served adequately, given the current stipulations of that part of that rule.
This made no sense to me whatsoever. Rephrase, if necessary.
Basically, my question is, why is it not allowed to complain about someone in that manner in an especially created thread and yet it is allowed to so in a non-related thread(with a simple reply/post). Doesn't the latter scenario raise all the same problems as listed by you above concerning the former scenario? I understand that there's a difference between creating a thread with the sole purpose of shaming someone in this manner and replying off-topic in a non-related thread with a similar intent in mind, but isn't the latter wrong for the same reasons?
