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User Suggestions for Future of Atheist Forums
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RE: User Suggestions for Future of Atheist Forums
I personally would like to put a plug in for not changing the enforcement of the rules. I think they and their enforcement have been largely unproblematic. People who want to see a change in enforcement are, I think, seeing that change as an expedient to achieving their real goal, which is a different forum culture and member behavior. I'm happy with current forum culture as it is, so I don't see that as the desirable goal. What may be a desirable goal may be to provide additional tools so that additional cultures and behaviors can occur alongside the current culture and behaviors, as they see fit. Civil threads is such a tool. I would, however, suggest a change that applies to staff behavior though and that is that the prime directive and the trolling and flaming rules be made more consistent with each other, preferably away from the current expression of the prime directive and towards the substance of those other two rules. I would even be happy to see the prime directive totally scrapped. It isn't functioning now, and changing enforcement of that immediately encounters the inconsistency in the rules, as well as the vagueness of the prime directive itself, leading to less consistency and fairness in enforcement of the rules. Replace it with a values statement, or a mission statement--essentially making it voluntary, like my suggestion for civil threads, unlike something mandatory which needs to be enforced. It's been my understanding that this is the way it has been treated in practice anyway, in spite of it actually being a rule which, taken at face value, should be enforced equally as aggressively as any other rule, without deference to one rule rather than another. For whatever reason, the prime directive has been a paper tiger, and I think it needs to be replaced at minimum, and harmonized with the other rules so that staff don't feel conflicted about basing a ruling on it, as it appears they do now.
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Messages In This Thread
User Suggestions for Future of Atheist Forums - by Shell B - November 19, 2018 at 9:39 pm
RE: User Suggestions for Future of Atheist Forums - by Rev. Rye - November 19, 2018 at 10:10 pm
RE: User Suggestions for Future of Atheist Forums - by Angrboda - November 19, 2018 at 10:37 pm
RE: User Suggestions for Future of Atheist Forums - by AFTT47 - November 19, 2018 at 11:00 pm
RE: User Suggestions for Future of Atheist Forums - by KevinM1 - November 19, 2018 at 11:15 pm
RE: User Suggestions for Future of Atheist Forums - by brewer - November 20, 2018 at 9:17 am
RE: User Suggestions for Future of Atheist Forums - by Aegon - November 20, 2018 at 11:17 am
RE: User Suggestions for Future of Atheist Forums - by Angrboda - November 20, 2018 at 11:43 am
RE: User Suggestions for Future of Atheist Forums - by no one - November 20, 2018 at 9:23 pm
RE: User Suggestions for Future of Atheist Forums - by Shell B - November 21, 2018 at 11:13 am
RE: User Suggestions for Future of Atheist Forums - by Angrboda - November 21, 2018 at 11:42 am
RE: User Suggestions for Future of Atheist Forums - by Dom - November 21, 2018 at 12:04 pm
RE: User Suggestions for Future of Atheist Forums - by Shell B - November 24, 2018 at 12:01 am
RE: User Suggestions for Future of Atheist Forums - by Tiberius - November 30, 2018 at 12:39 am

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