Rule Change (New Staff Power)

[Losty]

If your intention is to disrupt that is trolling and against the rules. Right?

Not really, as trolling is currently defined. It is possible to disrupt the forum without making "deliberately provocative posts with the aim of upsetting a member or inciting an angry or otherwise emotional response".

I disagree. How could that rule be more open to interpretation? The problem is not the unambiguity of the rule, but likely the inability on the staff to decide whether or not something is deliberate. It's not that you can't look at any post and decide together that it's deliberate trolling. It's that you all want to be super sure. Why would anyone think that's a bad thing though? I guess because it's stalls banning the trolls. I personally am fine with you guys nuking the trolls (read as: please perma ban EP), but I also find that you guys seem to take a long time and spend a lot of thought on these types of decisions to be admirable.

You can't really skirt around a rule like that though. It's open to interpretation.

Well, ultimately every rule is open to interpretation. That's why we have the useful disclaimer that we have: "the right to enforce the following rules on its membership according to staff interpretation. This disclaimer is put in place to allow the spirit of the rules to trump any literal interpretation of the rules".

That was my point xD

I bet. The debating is the part I like. Having a diverse team is a great thing.

It's the thought of mass debating that you really like, isn't it?

It's the thought of a forum team that takes their responsibilities as seriously as you guys seem to that I like. There are mass things that could be fun, but there wouldn't be any debating going on