Originally Posted By Dabob2 Wow, what a thread. Just as I missed the posts in WE a few days ago that caused a flurry of ADMINS and suddenly jon was gone... I missed all the spicier stuff on this thread that got admined too. Oh well. I'll just say that, good decision or bad decision, I'll miss jon's voice here. We got into it sometimes (just recently on a DL topic on the capacity of the Lincoln theatre's waiting room - who'd think something like THAT could cause a mini-brouhaha?) but he made LP a more interesting place and I hope he'll be back someday.
Originally Posted By barboy "We got into it sometimes (just recently on a DL topic on the capacity of the Lincoln theatre's waiting room" <---- quickly clicks on over to DL General for some good reading.
Originally Posted By alexbook I think it's funny that there's a link to this topic on the home page under "What's Hot!"
Originally Posted By RoadTrip << That's why IN MY OPINION if you're going to have forums for true debate and discussion you have to do one of two things: 1.) Let almost anything (other than personal info of posters) go; 2.) Have very strict guidelines that are administered across the board;>> It doesn't work. A friend of mine created a Disney Bulletin Board when a group of us felt that the moderating on The DIS was too heavy handed. We were all into this freedom of speech thing and decided that there would be NO editing or deleting of posts. That people would be allowed to speak their mind however they wanted. My friend made me co-administrator of the board and we thought we were on our way to posting nirvana. It was a monstrous mistake. You cannot believe how absolutely vile people can become when there are NO rules. It got so terrible (and you know if RoadTrip thinks it was terrible it was pretty terrible) that we did something we said we would never do. We deleted posts. Well, that went over about as well as banning jonvn did. There was a huge uprising resulting in a mutiny. My friend (who was the actual owner) decided that things were such a mess that she gave up and turned ownership of the board over to the rebels. So my good Spirit, neither option works very well. I've been there, done that. As I've said before, I think the moderating at LP is the best of any Disney site I've ever been involved with. It is more lenient than almost any place I've been, while at the same time getting rid of the stuff that is truly over the line. Regardless of what people say, I think most of them know darned good and well why they were banned even before being told. You try to walk that line too closely and you will eventually cross over it, and then you are gone. People know when they are getting close to that line. If they don't, they are too danged oblivious to be here anyway. To anyone who thinks they could do better at moderating, I would love to hear your plan. I once thought I could do better too. I couldn't.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>A friend of mine created a Disney Bulletin Board when a group of us felt that the moderating on The DIS was too heavy handed. We were all into this freedom of speech thing and decided that there would be NO editing or deleting of posts.<< I was there. For a little bit. Under a different handle. It was uuuuuugly!
Originally Posted By DAR <<It was a monstrous mistake. You cannot believe how absolutely vile people can become when there are NO rules.>> Ever read the talkback sections on Aint It Cool News during the Star Wars Prequels? The most common theme "George Lucas raped my childhood."
Originally Posted By barboy "I would love to hear your plan." Make WE an "at your own risk" zone, complete with a disclaimer like: To all who come to this obstreperous place, caution. WE could be where the gloves come off and it's a cyber street brawl(but no porn postings, or profane language --there has to be some regulation). Keep the rest of LP wholesome, innocent fun though. It's easy RT. Say someone ticks you off over in Disney Dining by saying some fighting words like "the California Grill sucks" well you and the offender just take it up in WE and go at. Hey, it would be great therapy to air out some grievances and then go back over to Disney Dining and be civil. Great plan, no?
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Originally Posted By Lady Starlight ^ well, then maybe theywould give you pop up list of acceptable emote words you could chose from? ya know like them smily faces. ohh how bout them too?
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove I think Pooh would always be an acceptable alternative to the * list above.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight seriously,how fully lame that would be though for real to have to resort to a pop up list of acceptable profanity and body gestures? LOL!
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<WE could be where the gloves come off and it's a cyber street brawl(but no porn postings, or profane language --there has to be some regulation).>> Porn postings and profane language weren’t really big problems at the site (although as usual the C word would provoke howls of rage). What pushed the whole thing over the edge were absolutely SAVAGE attacks on other members of that board and members of other boards. It truly got worse than you can imagine. I think mawnck probably knows what I'm talking about.
