Guidelines re comments
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Hi Jordan and thank you for doing the work to revive the forums. A question: Is there a set of guidelines/code of conduct for posting/commenting herein? I think it might help keep the train on the rails. Anyway, thanks again.
Guidelines for comments could be proposed by the editors and agreed upon by a representative committee. All posters should be required to online sign they will follow the guideline. If a user does not follow them he/she/they should be removed from having rights to post. Guidelines must include being fair, being kind and also not allow bullying.( c re c)
Are there examples of guidelines you’ve seen on other blogs that we can use as a guide? I haven’t seen them, but I am open to the idea.
I don’t like the idea of playing “you’re in a timeout!” parent. I also don’t like the idea of readers / participants / neighbors feeling bullied to the point where they don’t feel safe participating. I also don’t have an interest in creating a polyanna safe place where the only comments allowed are cheerful “rah-rah, you’re right”.
If there’s somewhere that’s doing it right, point me towards them, I’d love to learn.
Look at rules for some Facebook groups.
Name-calling, bullying, harassment can not be allowed.
You have to include the possibility of removing someone’s right to post if this person persists.
It is not comfortable to make a comment and have another poster make fun of you once, twice or over a period of years.
You have to respond to complaints as much as you may not wish to do so. ( c re c)
Jordan – I hear you. Cathy’s guidelines are common to most sites I’m aware of, so there’s a good start. I’d add that “constant off-topic posts” and “repeated posts about the same topic” are disruptive to good forum operation. That would round out the guidelines I had in mind.
My guidelines are common sense and courteous. I am confused Marie, why you are asking about guidelines? You have repeatedly made fun of my comments and thoughts badly enough for me to complain to Jordan and also to say I might call advertisers about it. You responded with sarcastically.
(C re c)I’m surprised the forums were whacked and emptied. This has been a a failure pattern for online forums for decades. Love it or hate it, deleting them means traffic to the site will die.
Jordan,
What will you do about comments and posts which break these guidelines? For example in a recent comment a poster called someone a name. ( c re c)Cathy thank you for your contribution to this discussion. You are relentless in expressing your vision of a just and perfect world. Who couldn’t say “Thank you” for that? <heart>
We may want to be careful, though, of calling out people for “called someone a name.” We might end up in an impossibly correct, intellectually manufacturered environment.
That said, you made me revisit a previous post where I called a capitalist mountebank “Satan incarnate” and so I deleted it. Thank you for steering the arc of our communal discourse toward the better aspect of our nature.
Reply to Jordan,
So it has been some time since this topic was initiated in this forum in 2020. Have you come to some decision/s?You and I have exchanged a few emails regarding this problem in the past. ( c re c)
Frances, Could you clarify re your agreements? We should have them? There should be consequences? Name-calling not OK? ( c re c)
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