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(11-02-2015, 03:06 PM)bfine32 Wrote: It was simply a reponse to someone bringing up name calling. All articles of the CoC should be adhered to. I just don't see a lot of spaming going on in the PnR forum, what I do see a lot of is personal attacks.

I encouraged others in the OP to give their suggestions and some have. Others have said it is too difficult to monitor so we shouldn't. I'm more solution oriented than that (others have different descriptives for it).  

I don't know if it's "too difficult" to monitor as much as it leaves a lot of things open to subjectivity, which in turn creates some bad blood when people may believe there is a bias of sorts.

Using derogatory slurs to generalize entire groups of people is much more unhealthy for a message board than calling someone an idiot, IMO. This board is essentially the offspring of an official NFL team message board, and as you know, we even have at least 1 person very closely associated with the team posting here. I believe it's a bad image to have if there is racism running rampant as it has in some of the threads here. I may be overthinking this, but stuff like that seems like it could eventually turn away guys like Jim O from participating on a board with that sort of material on it.

WTS, if the racism is allowed in the future, it's sort of silly to be told that we aren't allowed to call someone a moron for saying something moronic. I've said from the beginning, I think either both or neither should be allowed in PnR. If subjective racism is appropriate for the forum, it needs to be a free for all of sorts where some amount of name calling is also tolerated, but obviously nothing extreme. We don't need death threats or 1,000 posts with no substance and only calling people names, but I don't see anything wrong with "hey, you're a dummy and here's why" if generalizations and "I'm going to intentionally push peoples buttons by being a borderline homophobe" is going to be allowed.

I'm sure plenty of people disagree with that, but it's just my thoughts on the matter.