[serious] Off Topic Moderation Input - Part 2

[MikeH]

I see Aeson's been quite active in that thread and posted a couple of suggestions people calm down, so I'll let him deal with anything in that thread.

[Kidlicious]

This one?

http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/205246-Arizona-s-new-anti-gay-law?p=6299132&viewfull=1#post6299132

That isn't a death threat.

I know but it's what I thought BK was talking about. It's actually a call for people to commit suicide with several people agreeing.

[MikeH]

He very carefully phrases it so that he's not calling for that.

It's followed by a bunch of people talking about the 9x9 number puzzle.

[MikeH]

So the "Death threat" is notyoueither saying "Do it!" meaning that someone should do a Sudoku?

FFS.

[Kidlicious]

He very carefully phrases it so that he's not calling for that.

It's followed by a bunch of people talking about the 9x9 number puzzle.

Can you explain why the way he worded it has any significance?

[MikeH]

Yes. I'm sure you could too if you thought about it.

[Kidlicious]

Yes. I'm sure you could too if you thought about it.

As far as I can tell you aren't against encouraging suicide so long as it's worded properly.

[MikeH]

Your reading comprehension isn't very good

I said that it's clear he phrased it carefully so that he wasn't encouraging suicide. The only conclusion you can correctly come to is that I'm not against people not encouraging suicide.

The next response was a sudoku pun, and the following posts, probably seizing on the opportunity to turn the thread a bit more lighthearted, jumped on the sudoku bandwagon.

[Kidlicious]

Your reading comprehension isn't very good

I said that it's clear he phrased it carefully so that he wasn't encouraging suicide. The only conclusion you can correctly come to is that I'm not against people not encouraging suicide.

The next response was a sudoku pun, and the following posts, probably seizing on the opportunity to turn the thread a bit more lighthearted, jumped on the sudoku bandwagon.

You think my reading comprehension is poor but you can't tell that Sava is talking about suicide?

[MikeH]

That's not what I said.

[MikeH]

If you can't understand this there's no point me talking to you.

[Kidlicious]

I won't argue with you.

[Felch]

Mods are doing things now? WTF?

[MikeH]

WTF?! We haven't actually done anything have we?

[notyoueither]

I probably see about 1% of what's posted here, I just don't have much time to visit. I only saw this stuff because it was pervading just about every thread. Which is really why it's a problem. When almost every thread is a running battle between Kid and Ming it's basically ruining the forum for everyone. Certainly for me. I can only tolerate the place with Kid and Ben on ignore as it is. Probably that's good reason for them to be banned, I'm sure I'm not the only one.

The things you mentioned probably aren't acceptable, it might depend on context. Asking someone for info about themselves is probably ok, even if it's repeatedly, that's just boring.

Are you unaware of the abuse that was piled on Ecofarm? The forum was made hostile to him in any and every thread he posted in with comments about him being a ped, demands for information about his academic work, and incidences of stalking IIRC.

Is that sort of behaviour going to be disallowed for everyone? Yes or no? If yes then people might report it. If no, why bother?

Might be handy to hear from Aeson about this as well.

I'm not against kidvicious defaming Ming as the spark for this, btw. If it took someone on the inside to make the case that the lack of boundaries is making the site unusable for some under some circumstances then that's what it took.