(February 15, 2016 at 3:52 am)Excited Penguin Wrote:(February 15, 2016 at 3:44 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Not only would creating a thread to highlight why some user violates the rules also violate the "No Calling Out" rule, but creating the thread so the entire membership could see it is inappropriate and would not be conducive to keeping members around.
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?
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 isn't a unique rule to this website it is quite common across the internet. It isn't done to hide anything, it is done to value the members. Even outside the internet, in real life, while it is ok to report a crime to police, government itself in the west does not make public displays of punishment, like Saudi Arabia publicly executes you for apostasy. This website keeping certain exchanges private is no different than a judge having a sidebar with lawyers that the gallery does not see. It still allows members to comment on rules and there is also already an open thread about bans that members do see.
There is no funny business going on here. There is also another thread about rules too. If the owners and admins were not objective there would have been carpet bombing bans for the slightest boo. That is not what goes on here. And there is no lone wolf admin who can act alone in any case.
