(May 15, 2013 at 4:54 pm)Rayaan Wrote: Flaming and trolling are already prohibited in the R'lyeh.
I think it's important to note what differentiates "personal attacks" (allowed in R'lyeh) and "flaming" (which is not). Personally, if a post consists solely of a personal attack with no argument - it's flaming, otherwise it's not necessarily.
(May 15, 2013 at 4:54 pm)Rayaan Wrote: As for catfish, there wasn't a strong agreement between the staff on whether or not he was actually flaming or trolling in that thread. A few of us voted against any action because we thought that his comments were more of a personal attack, which is allowed in R'lyeh.
Furthermore, there were some of us who felt that the thread should have been split to a forum that did not have R'lyeh's protection from the personal attack rule. Consider this: anyone who posts in a R'lyeh thread is fair game. Is someone who posted to Off Topic, and later had his post split to R'lyeh fair game when they were not involved in the activity that led to the split? I think they should not be. If members want to voluntarily create threads in R'lyeh, that's fine.
I think that R'lyeh is an appropriate place to split a thread when all involved are mutual combatants. That wasn't the case here. I believe that we waited too long to split the thread, and that we split it to the wrong place. For my part in that, I apologize.
(May 15, 2013 at 4:54 pm)Rayaan Wrote: And people who post in the R'lyeh usually know, or should know, what they are getting themselves into. There is a description in that forum for a reason.
I wholeheartedly agree, with the caveats noted above.
