(05-01-2015, 08:39 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote:(05-01-2015, 05:16 AM)Nailah Wrote: The only thing I'm not really thrilled about is your reluctance to delete posts - I agree it's not something that should be used left right and center, but I have been involved in a flaming incident where the attackers posts did not get deleted afterwards.
When it comes to flaming, I don't think it's a great idea to leave the posts visible because it empowers and gives an incentive to do these things even more, in my opinion. People might be willing to risk it more if they know that at least the posts wont get removed. And for me, I'm always worried that someone is going to re-find the thread and pass judgement on me/my fc based on what the attacker said in those posts (which I obviously disagree with.).
I don't want to discuss the moderator action in my incident here so I'm trying to make it a bit unspecific, but I felt like I had to mention where those concerns came from. I hope that is okay.
Is that something you've thought about, or has it changed in any way with these new rules?
It depends on the flames in question. Personally, I feel we've been leaning a bit too much on deletion as of late, and that emboldens people because they feel they can do whatever they want since a mod will just clean things up later. It also eliminates our ability to publicly flag a post as having resulted in a warning (which we're going to try out and see how it goes). It undermines the concept of people standing by what they say. Finally, it spawns weird conspiracy theories about what clique is benefitting from the "censorship." So, for all those reasons, I really don't like deleting posts.
However, as I said, it depends on what's being said and why. For instance, racial slurs will get zapped, period. Posts that directly call someone out may or may not be, depending on exactly what's been said. Flame wars that happen inside another thread with good discussion will probably just be split off into a locked thread, with warnings flagged for reference.
If you want to talk about a specific thread, feel free to drop me a PM and we'll discuss it.
One thing that I like about the escapist is that for posts that aren't like super horrible but get the poster warned or banned, they don't delete but just hide the post. So, if you really want to read it you can read it, but if you don't it's hidden away behind a button that you need to click in order to see it. And then in red letters it just says 'user was warned/banned for this post'.
