This seems safe and sound to me, though I'm a fairly new member.
My ONLY concern is how the point system labels the person accruing points. People have bad days, people also can word things improperly. We all know tone and intent can often be lost via text. I guess I'm worried that people who have "points" are going to be looked at as upstarts even if what they did were minor infractions.
I'm assuming the mods are above this, but I felt like it warranted a note..As someone who suffered something like this before in this community. I'll keep things anonymous and brief, but in a nutshell I made a joke in poor taste assuming people would know it was a joke based on context. They didn't and got offended, even after I apologized. And after more genuine apologies on my end I was still the victim of a witch hunt. ONE MONTH LATER the "mod" of this situation told me that he viewed me as a drama starter and troublesome person over this one situation that (as I said before) I had genuinely apologized over. It felt more like a "we just don't like you" than a "you were being offensive" situation...It was unfair and honestly bothered me, and I'm fairly hard to bother on the internet lol.
Anyways, my point is: as long as we're not vilifying people that have warnings and treating them differently or MODERATING them differently or in a biased way, everything should be golden. Just because LouieSueSteven89 may have made a few poorly-mannered responses over the past couple months does not mean we should automatically assume he's an upstart or an "asshole" (to use the token phrase).
That is all!
My ONLY concern is how the point system labels the person accruing points. People have bad days, people also can word things improperly. We all know tone and intent can often be lost via text. I guess I'm worried that people who have "points" are going to be looked at as upstarts even if what they did were minor infractions.
I'm assuming the mods are above this, but I felt like it warranted a note..As someone who suffered something like this before in this community. I'll keep things anonymous and brief, but in a nutshell I made a joke in poor taste assuming people would know it was a joke based on context. They didn't and got offended, even after I apologized. And after more genuine apologies on my end I was still the victim of a witch hunt. ONE MONTH LATER the "mod" of this situation told me that he viewed me as a drama starter and troublesome person over this one situation that (as I said before) I had genuinely apologized over. It felt more like a "we just don't like you" than a "you were being offensive" situation...It was unfair and honestly bothered me, and I'm fairly hard to bother on the internet lol.
Anyways, my point is: as long as we're not vilifying people that have warnings and treating them differently or MODERATING them differently or in a biased way, everything should be golden. Just because LouieSueSteven89 may have made a few poorly-mannered responses over the past couple months does not mean we should automatically assume he's an upstart or an "asshole" (to use the token phrase).
That is all!
