Rule Change Feedback

[FlyingJesus]

So basically you can call people a shit**** and ask them to rep you for it now

"any comments or insults that directly offend a user on a personal level will be removed" does this mean every time Dan says you lot in an argument because he thinks everyone who doesn't agree with him is the same person his post will be deleted please say that's gonna happen

And do we need to provide proof when talking about Tara or Martin getting with minors

[Kyle]

add libel to the rules

[FlyingJesus]

ps having the filter optional is pointless no-one's gonna choose to not see half of spam

[Matt]

So basically you can call people a shit**** and ask them to rep you for it now

You could do, yes! Although I'd ask for the rep before you call them a shit**** otherwise you might get a -rep.

"any comments or insults that directly offend a user on a personal level will be removed" does this mean every time Dan says you lot in an argument because he thinks everyone who doesn't agree with him is the same person his post will be deleted please say that's gonna happen

Unfortunately not!

And do we need to provide proof when talking about Tara or Martin getting with minors

Yes otherwise you might create an argument and it'll be moved to Spam

add libel to the rules

I'll be honest and say I don't know what libel means - nevermind I googled it and agree it's worthy of a rule. I think Laura is going to add that to the rules!

ps having the filter optional is pointless no-one's gonna choose to not see half of spam

It's there as a safety net. If we didn't have it I'm almost 100% certain that we would get at least one person saying they don't like swearing and that they should be able to turn it off.

[FlyingJesus]

Make the default setting be off then just for ease of use and oh boy a libel rule is gonna be fun

[Kyle]

I have my filter on.

[Matt]

Make the default setting be off then just for ease of use and oh boy a libel rule is gonna be fun

Although it may be easier as a default option so people don't have to go trawling through their settings, I personally think it's safer to keep the filter on for new users as then they can turn it off on their own accord and can't blame us for making them see all these swear words. It might sound stupid but users do generally go through their settings anyway when setting up their account, so I'm sure they'd see it and turn it off/leave it on depending on their preference. I'm not sure what Management think but that's my stance.

Libel wasn't a bad suggestion and I reckon quite a few people will agree with the implementation of that!

[lawrawrrr]

So basically you can call people a ******** and ask them to rep you for it now

"any comments or insults that directly offend a user on a personal level will be removed" does this mean every time Dan says you lot in an argument because he thinks everyone who doesn't agree with him is the same person his post will be deleted please say that's gonna happen

And do we need to provide proof when talking about Tara or Martin getting with minors

Any time someone feels like they are being attacked or targetted or are offended by something then they have the right to report it (aka, with the confederate flag, if someone was legitimately offended by it and could explain why and we judged weren't trolling, we might remove it). Moderators won't be making the call on if it's offensive, 90% of the time.

That's been added into the libel rule now which I'm about to announce. Basically, don't accuse someone of being a paedo because they could technically take you to court for it

ps having the filter optional is pointless no-one's gonna choose to not see half of spam

the default is filter on because otherwise we may get into trouble about swears showing and it gives users the option to turn it off rather than on (which is much better).

add libel to the rules

Added, about to announce now. I thought about it when we were first discussing but wasn't sure how relevant it was. I've also added more about national law.

[Phil]

Hello! Glad to see this has finally been done after all of the speaking about it.

Something I would add and it's something I KINDA did anyway as Forum Management is something around people +Repping posts that were targeting other members. I just used to remove their rep idk.

[Kyle]

Hello! Glad to see this has finally been done after all of the speaking about it.

Something I would add and it's something I KINDA did anyway as Forum Management is something around people +Repping posts that were targeting other members. I just used to remove their rep idk.

this could've been tackled by allowing -reps to remove green display points. You can't really police what people find rep worthy.