Three-Strikes System for Bad Behavior

[burr86]

Re-posting this because the original submitter was deleting comments to the suggestion. (Apologies to anyone who lost their comments when the submitter deleted the original suggestion.)

Title
Three-Strikes System for Bad Behavior

Short, concise description of the ideaset up a panel of arbitrators, and a message-forum-style "report offensive post"

Comments

[artela]

Definitely not.

What you're describing is generally called a "busybodies charter", giving everyone with a gripe or whinge against certain types of posts that *they* don't like a chance to complain.

In addition, just think of the workload caused by personal vendettas against otherwise reasonable posters!

[ursamajor]

Would repost my original, but it basically asked:

Where are you going to find these neutral arbitrators that everyone on LJ will agree are neutral?

And then rahaeli elaborated on pretty much all of the potential points up there that I agree with, so. :)

[lied_ohne_worte]

And I had such a nice comment typed out before she deleted.

Bottom line:

No. I don't want a "comment police", to which by the standards she suggested in her comments about 80 percent of the LJ population would be reportable within one week.

While I am honestly sorry that the original OP made bad experiences, be it in RL or on LJ, this does not entitle anyone to expect every environment they are in to be made into a "safe environment" that caters their emotional vulnerabilities. I wouldn't want that myself, even though I have made my share of bad experiences and still fight with the repercussions: I want to be able to express myself, including my sarcastic side, which of course means that others may direct their sarcasm at me, too.

[claire]

There are mean people on the internet? Who'da thunk?

[jai_dit]

[pauamma]

I have one question to the original suggestion's author:

Would your behavior toward opponents of your suggestion count as one strike against you under your proposal?

[midnightmadness]

Glad someone said that. ;-)

All seriousness though, people that delete comments to their suggestions here should really suffer some kind of consequences to their actions. If they're not willing to live by ALL the reactions to their own suggestion, they don't belong here and should be banned.

This community is useless if commentary is going to be deleted by posting parties - now we have to question whether we are actually seeing ALL of the genuine feedback to ANY suggestion.

[foxfirefey]

Well, if it reassures you any, I believe the person WAS banned, because deleting comments is a bannable offense here--the person was warned about it and I assume it happened.

[azurelunatic]

As a maintainer, I set my subscriptions up to get copies of each comment e-mailed to me. This way, it's reasonably easy for me to check and see if comments on any one particular post start disappearing (say I just saw that comment in an e-mail; where did it go on the post?). The other maintainers are also watching.

If that starts happening, we can step in and investigate/take action.