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[Belsnickel]

(11-02-2015, 12:41 PM)Benton Wrote: Generally, it's an individual basis on your two examples. Nothing is ever black and white. Given the nature of the topics here, leeway was given in the past as you can't have a discussion about a topic that evokes strong feelings from two different sides without one side feeling the other is being wrong in some way, whether it's perceiving them to be narrow minded, insulting, sexist, racist, etc.

Your PosterB leaves no such gray area. If you directly insult someone, it's obviously in violation of the CoC. In the past, PosterA was given some room as — provided there wasn't any other violation of the CoC in regards to language or something else — it was part of the discussion. As an example, if you're discussing racism, you're going to have a range of views as to what is acceptable and what is not.

As I've said (a lot) lately, we tried to give a long leash with that. Unfortunately, that has provided an atmosphere where people are just attacking one another instead of the topic. If you can't use this as a place to discuss ideas and view points rationally, then moderation will be heavy handed in PnR.

Part of the problem we have seen developing here has been that when an individual says something that would be offensive and would be classified as bigotry (listed as against the CoC as well) there have been some attempts to educate and correct the behavior. However, there has been persistence on the parts of certain individuals in using such language after that. Whether it is done as an attempt at humor, to incite a response, or just to be bigoted is indiscernible. This is what caused some of the recent issues here and what has been causing some issues for a while now. There comes a point where people will lose their temper with it. Obviously, some people have a much shorter time frame they will tolerate it than others before their behavior will also become unacceptable.

This is not the only problem that is existent here, but it has been a big one that carried over even from the old boards.