A Call to Ban NotBruceZ for Consistently Endorsing Violence

[SensiblePerson]

@JohnnyTruant

First, someone makes up a set of base guidelines/rules for this forum. Start with the obvious ones that will have no objections. No threats of violence against anyone. No train-wrecking or threats of train-wrecking. No spam. No racist, misogynistic, homophobic language or rhetoric. Etc.

That started to happen back in July in the Moderation rules thread:

Moderation rules

I think it’s high time that we decide on the moderation rules. As there will be quite a lot to discuss I am going to try to break into bite sized bits. How do we want to handle: NSFW content (has to be marked?) (allowed as avatar or inline?/allowed as link?/disallowed?) 1a) swear words 1b) racy/suggestive images 1c) nudity 1d) pornography 1e) gore/disturbing or violent images copyrighted content 2a) copy/paste articles? 2b) allow discussion of pirated content? 2c) allow links to p…

I’m not going to reread the whole thing but I think it would be good to work from that so we don’t have to start from scratch.

@JohnnyTruant

Second, let’s get one level further. This is where we decide what kind of community we want to be.

I agree with this but think some prior discussion of this would be necessary to decide on the concrete rules in step one.

@JohnnyTruant

Third, a simple progression guideline that gives the mods a framework to enforce the rules

Agree with this too.

@JohnnyTruant

This all gets put up for a vote and discussed

Sounds good, with the caveat that many initiatives have gotten bogged down with process discussion since we left 2p2. I am thinking we’ll never come up with the perfect ideal of a democratic process that makes everyone happy. So really all we need is enough of the appearance of democracy that people don’t feel alienated enough by it to leave the forum. A proposal, followed by a discussion and vote, decided by a simple majority, should be good enough for this.

One final thing: I think we also need to come up with a process for selecting mods that imbues them with some legitimacy. What we have now is basically no process–the mods are mods just because they were in prior versions of the forum. (cite)

And along with that, some sort of “expectations and responsibilities” plan for mods would be helpful as well.

So, somebody get on that, okay?