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My definition of trolling, and the one that we will be using, is 'a post that is clearly intended solely to incite the community in a negative manner. Disagreement with the board zeitgeist is not trolling, posting news stories that people react negatively to is not trolling, nor is challenging assumptions and engaging in debate. Mocking comments meant solely to demean and degrade other posters in hopes of causing them to violate the civility rules is considered trolling and will result in disciplinary action.'

It is perfectly possible for free speech and civility to coexist. In most cases, the 'clash' is between *how* you say things, not the content of what is said, and that is something that any adult should be able to control.
 
LordSunhawk said:
My definition of trolling, and the one that we will be using, is 'a post that is clearly intended solely to incite the community in a negative manner. Disagreement with the board zeitgeist is not trolling, posting news stories that people react negatively to is not trolling, nor is challenging assumptions and engaging in debate. Mocking comments meant solely to demean and degrade other posters in hopes of causing them to violate the civility rules is considered trolling and will result in disciplinary action.'

It is perfectly possible for free speech and civility to coexist. In most cases, the 'clash' is between *how* you say things, not the content of what is said, and that is something that any adult should be able to control.
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Interesting, do you have more changes in policy on mind in regards to the TOS and Civility rules?
 
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LordSunhawk said:
I'm not going to subdivide the forum up any more than I have to. I am hoping that by stepping up and contributing more creative content of my own (see Lucky 13th and TOSE rewrites) I may 'prime the pump' a little and get others to post their own creative works.

When they do, I beg of you all to please leave reviews and feedback, nothing depresses a new writer more than indifference, and nothing encourages more artists to show up than knowing they'll have an audience who'll pay attention.

I'm trying to think of ways to encourage this. *chuckles* Call me Don Quixote in this regard!
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How about organizing events? So for example, if the anniversary of something important is coming up, organizing a competition on essays about said "something important", and winner gets linked in a banner or something (can't really think of a reward)?
 
Aldarion said:
How about organizing events? So for example, if the anniversary of something important is coming up, organizing a competition on essays about said "something important", and winner gets linked in a banner or something (can't really think of a reward)?
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"Your reward is that you can kick a moderator of your choice in the nuts." /Cartman. 😜
 
They are unlocked for now, but if people start getting unhinged again they'll be locked again.

@Staff please keep a close eye on the Politics subforum and the election threads and proactively report any rule breaking.

This is an official warning from the Boot, failure to follow the civility rules in the election threads will be punished as follows. First offense: 24 hr threadban. 2nd offense: 3 days sub forum ban, 3rd offense: 1 week temp ban from the site. TOS violations are to be enforced strictly.
 
LordSunhawk said:
@Terthna

With how people were starting to go nuts in there? A 24 hour time out is appropriate. Right now I am too angry to be entirely rational in regards to moderating that forum, so simply taking it offline for a day is the least harm I could do.
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You're not exactly inspiring confidence in your ability to handle running this forum going forward. I'm worried that either the politics subforum getting locked is going to become a common occurrence, or it'll just get locked permanently like Zoe wanted to do.
 
Terthna said:
You're not exactly inspiring confidence in your ability to handle running this forum going forward. I'm worried that either the politics subforum getting locked is going to become a common occurrence, or it'll just get locked permanently like Zoe wanted to do.
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Well we're kind of short staffed at the moment. So...
 
Look, the transition wasn't supposed to be finished until February, it got moved up due to various factors beyond our control. Now I am short staffed, have to learn how to handle all the behind the scenes things without a net, including an extremely counter-intuitive forum administration system that makes zero sense, and then THIS blows up.

Please forgive me for not being Clark Kent, let alone Superman.
 
The forum staff have no obligation to allow a politics forum, and if people in the politics forum cannot behave and treat each other respectfully, they have no reason to allow it either. The goal of the forum at founding was a civil, respectful atmosphere for discussion, and as far as I know that's still the case. If that goal can't be achieved and instead we just have fits.....oh well, guess people can take thier bad attitude and hostile behavior to twitter or somewhere.
 
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