It has, but people don't always understand things the same way. We may not even be understanding each other now, which is the big thrust of the confusion. As an example, think to the US and Turkey. When the US armed Kurds in Syria, the US thought it was fine. Turkey thought it was very much NOT FINE. Because the US generally isn't worried about Kurds as a security threat, whereas Turkey is.
So in this example, you don't really have one group you're talking to. You have several.
So when you drop a message that says "we need to crack down on this", everyone on this list group is going to turn around and say "Who, me? What did I do?"
- The People who follow the rules 100% of the time.
- The People who follow the rules 80% of the time.
- The People who follow the rules 50% of the time.
- The People who follow the rules 30% of the time.
- The People who generally don't follow the rules.
- Trolls
And if you say "abusive language", then all six of those people are going to have a different interpretation of what that means.
Your job entails far less and far more power than people give it credit for. The trust people put in you is nothing to sneeze at, but at the end of the day it is entirely optional and either way, doesn't come with a paycheck.
I'd argue most of the board is already in compliance. What we are stating is that we are cracking down on the ones who are not.
This is as much internal consistency as anything else. But I wont lie to you. There is an optics angle too. You know it as well as I do. We were never going to get a fair chance due to malicious actors and the smear campaign by malicious actors. We all knew this and accepted this. But when people who were not even involved in that whole kerfuffle point to a small subset of our base and the clear violation of our rules with no clear action from the staff. Then we start looking like we support it. That's where the issue comes into play.
Let me ask you something. Have you noticed that a number of our members have stopped posting? Have you wondered why that may be?