RE: Is slack a private social club and other issues my sorry ass has landed itself in
April 19, 2019 at 4:20 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2019 at 4:22 pm by arewethereyet.)
(April 19, 2019 at 10:33 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: I'll have to read your reply later, Camoo. I need to get to the gym, but I just wanted to make one other comment.
As some of you may know, a sister forum, atheistdiscussion.org, has as its primary rule, "Don't be a dick." The inadequacy and subjectivity and potential abuse of such a criterion has been criticized by several on this forum as likely to result in unjust and unfair abuses by the staff of that forum. I do not see how such criticisms would not apply here. Tiberius has been good about doing what he can to eliminate subjectivity from interpretation and enforcement of the rules, instead of depending upon subjective interpretations of intent, or whatever. I don't know that Steelcurtain's summary of the criteria is accurate or not, but to my eye it incorporates a lot of the practice, if not any letter of the law. I would ask that Tiberius clarify if these are indeed the criteria being employed, and if so, why he considers such subjective criteria wise when applied to slack, but not when applied to the forum as a whole.
'Don't be a dick' was the number one rule on TTA as stated repeatedly by Stark Raving. Stark was a very early admin there, if not the first. He had more than one run at the admin spot often at Seth's urging. It worked there and other admins and staff attempted to hold to the concept. AD, being made up of many former TTA members, knew that the concept had worked at TTA and they adopted it as their own...perhaps because their base understands it.
Subjective, yes. Stark was first to declare that the forum wasn't a democracy and he (or other admins along the way) had final say.
As for the situation you find yourself in...it was made clear here on this forum that the word in question was not to be used. Tiberius was pretty clear. Since Slack is made up of members of this forum it follows that the same people who agree with the word not being used here would follow that lead to the Slack site.
It seems you thought it was funny and it fell flat, badly. The audience, at least those with authority at Slack, made a call.
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
