(October 14, 2016 at 12:41 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(October 14, 2016 at 10:46 am)Shell B Wrote: People are responsible for their own emotions. I never got the idea that staff was around to make sure everyone's feelings weren't hurt.
Well it's a good thing I didn't say that, now isn't it?
It is the staff's responsibility to ensure the good health of the forum.
(October 14, 2016 at 10:46 am)Shell B Wrote: There are other places for that. This is a space where people of all opinions get together and talk. There are always going to be ruffled feathers.
No shit, Sherlock. But is this really the hill you want to defend?
I'm fine with a committment to open communication. But in that case, the staff needs to revise the rules, or at least drop the pretense that they actually enforce the rules. Because we have here two clear violations which are costing the forum valued members, and ... nothing. It's almost as if the rules are window-dressing.
If this is the forum you want, have at it. Just rename the forum 4chanLite and call it a day already. Because that's what you're going to get if you don't enforce your own rules.
What clear violations? Thump...we do enforce the rules. We also do have lives outside of AF and people reporting things like "hey look at this" or "I'm disappointed about that" that are currently clogging up our staff threads.
I think Drich's opinions are garbage. I think his behavior is shitty. But he doesn't break the rules. He just says horrible things. There's no rules against saying horrible things. Despondentfishfacedeath or whatever his name was, he was an ONI, every thread he entered turned to just him rambling about how tough life is when you're better and smarter than everyone else. Drich says horrible things but he stays on topic. He's not disrupting conversation just adding his vile opinion to it. I'm torn on it at lot because I think he deserves to be banned on a personal level. I think the forum would be better without him. But based on our rules we can't ban them. We could change the rules but the forum would be ruined. We protect our members from real threats and from trolling. We don't protect them from mean words. Whether this place is like 4chan is up to the membership not the staff. If someone says something horrible, it's up to us as members to shut them down. If someone is despicable we can deal with that the same way we deal with it in real life. By calling them out for the vile disgusting person they are.
If you see an actual rule violation please do tell because there's nothing I'd like more than to boot the fuckface out the door.
