PnR Decorum and suspensions

[Dill]

(07-15-2017, 03:01 PM)xxlt Wrote: But seriously, I've never filed a complaint, and I don't know who this silent majority is that is doing all this complaining, but maybe the problem is with the complainants and not the forum? Maybe there needs to be a tougher criteria to get into the forum? Maybe if you are a chronic complainer you should take a vacation (or be given one) from the forum? Maybe if you've been given multiple vacations and you are still complaining about the environment maybe a longer break is in order?

I don't know, and really don't care, but I have to wonder if there is a direct correlation in how inappropriate and baseless someone's posts are and how much they complain. But then, I am not an expert on complaining because I have never done it. From my perspective "the league office" is doing a great job and is invited to consider this alternative perspective on the matter from a non-complainer and rule-abider.

(07-15-2017, 04:06 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: The rules are not the issue it's the same group of posters who report posts and use this feature as a weapon.   

You raise an interesting question here, XXLT and Lucie.

I hope that the kind of complaint the moderators are referring to is plain and simple the personal invective type. I have been the recipient of that myself, and have never asked for protection, though I have taken time mid-thread to post what I think the standards should be. I don't like name calling because it is a thread-stopper and discourages participation. I'm assuming the mods don't allow a double standard, so someone who calls others names all the time can suddenly turn around and call in the mods to silence opposition when someone does the same to him.

Another ground for complaints, however, could be that people's religious/political heroes and ideologies are attacked in the forum, and so they don't want to post any more. By "attack" I don't mean forum members themselves are called stupid or ignorant, I mean rather that their views, or views of those they esteem, are critiqued. Someone else argues that their claims are factually incorrect or logically inconsistent.  Like our president, they don't make a distinction between name calling and rational argument.  Attack is attack.

If there is someone whose posts come under this sort of rational criticism, not name calling, and he complains to the Mods, I trust them to sort that out.  If you post a link to support your contention that Muslims are poised to impose Sharia law on Cincinnati, and several posters challenge your source and your argument rationally, you should not complain "No one is letting me have my opinion" and beg the moderators to make the forum your safe space by suspending those who disagree with you. I don't know if anyone has ever done that, but if he did and the mods gave in, that would do far more damage to the forum than personal attacks, if civil political discourse is valued. 

Benton added a password feature so that people can't complain they accidentally wandered in here and got their feelings hurt.

Zona says the no-personal-attack rule is keeping the forum alive, so I am hoping people who want to keep the forum grasp that.