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(05-18-2015, 11:24 PM)K Wrote: It might also be worth mentioning that any, one warning issued by a moderator can quite easily be an action which they had really wished to avoid entirely. It's not simply an issue of "Was this inappropriate/breaching the rules?". Nine times out of ten, posts that get warned are lingering in a grey area where one person might consider something that was said as a harsh but ultimately harmless voicing of opinion, while another might see it as something that is heedlessly careless and something to be made an example out of... to make a point of the matter that such inconsiderate behaviour, which repeatedly tends to toe the line of what's tolerable and what isn't, is simply not something that should be enabled.
Shouldn't the moderators, then, be erring on the side of believing the best about the person in question, instead of erring on the side of believing the worst about said poster?
Quote:If you choose to exercise a blunt and very direct manner when you post, then be sure that you are prepared to be (mis)interpreted for bearing unnecessary animosity and potentially earn yourself avoidable infractions.
I really...really really...really...really think this is an unfortunate position to take. Â Yes, people who are blunt and direct in their posts can absolutely be misread, but I think it is a mistake to make the poster solely responsible for other people misreading what they're saying. Â People can read anything into anything, and your position is really open to abuse.
If I don't like someone, 9 times out of 10, I'm going to read even a relatively harmless post by that person as being something awful. Â If I like someone, short of them going off and spouting cuss words 3 ways from Sunday and calling people names, I'm probably not going to see anything they say as "bad." Â Because I like them, and I know they wouldn't mean it in a bad way.
Telling people they cannot be blunt or honest is just...it's a bad road to take. Â Saying that you're going to base infractions based on the tone you are reading into the post itself is incredibly subjective and will probably end up being really unfair to a lot of people.
If that's not what you meant, I apologize, but that's how it's coming across from what I saw in your post.
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