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I'm gotten lectures privately about calling politicians names.

Last edited by bedstuy (2009-10-21 11:17 am)

Posts are being (re)moved if we feel they violate the rules. That mostly means not addressing arguments, but resorting to namecalling.

As I'm sick and tired of giving up my or my employer's time to edit a string of posts into something resembling a discussion rather than a shouting match, such posts are removed whole. Perhaps losing the fruits of their labour will make people think twice about inserting snide comments directed at other posters into their argumentations. I sure hope so.

All this is being done with the idea that Minithink is a place for discussion of political and religious subjects, not a dumping ground where people get to insult others at will.

.tsooJ

JakeTheTall wrote:

Admins are deleting posts in MiniThink.
[...]
This post started with 13 sentences, including this one. 

And if your post was deleted, how would we know?

I think Alien covered this one well enough.  I think what the problem has been is that we have posted rules, and people have (intentionally or not) disregarded them.  It seems like, in the last several years, mods have been relatively lax on enforcement of the rules.  However, this doesn't constitute a change in the purpose of MT, nor of its rules.  If enforcement begins to happen again, it isn't some dark conspiracy.  It's just the cycle of "let's keep order -> let's give them some leniency -> there's been too much leniency" renewing.

Or maybe my rotting wombat brain is completely off-topic.

JakeTheTall wrote:

but I don't see any posts in MiniThink that are egregiously offensive or rule breaking.

Hard to tell when they vanish, n'est-ce pas?

IcarusFountain wrote:

JakeTheTall wrote:

Admins are deleting posts in MiniThink.
[...]
This post started with 13 sentences, including this one. 

And if your post was deleted, how would we know?

I think Alien covered this one well enough.  I think what the problem has been is that we have posted rules, and people have (intentionally or not) disregarded them.  It seems like, in the last several years, mods have been relatively lax on enforcement of the rules.  However, this doesn't constitute a change in the purpose of MT, nor of its rules.  If enforcement begins to happen again, it isn't some dark conspiracy.  It's just the cycle of "let's keep order -> let's give them some leniency -> there's been too much leniency" renewing.

Or maybe my rotting wombat brain is completely off-topic.

Absolutely, the rule enforcing must rein in incivility.  The trick is that one person's incivility is another's passionate argument.  That, and there were startling lapses in enforcement in the past, of posts that are more obviously rule-breaking.


The recent mod-deleting of posts comes off as very random.