I think, these days, that you let the topics start. You trust that among your membership are people that will discuss both sides of the topic, point out where one side is being overly sensitive and the other side is being bigoted. As mods, you step in not to stop the topic because you personally disagree with the tone of the OP or how it's digressed but if people try to silence one side of the discussion by sulking or bullying rather than making a valid point.
Where do I draw the line? I draw it when making a comment about an individual becomes a comment on a whole group. I could point to arrogant wankers in any group you want to name, but that doesn't mean the whole group - whether religious, racial, physical, sexual, you-name-it - shares that person's characteristics. So the minute someone starts in on 'this group do/are this' my hackles rise. Then, if they tack on 'and so deserve this' I start growling
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Serioulsy, I think if you can still see a glimmer of respect, the threads probably a fair one, when it's been flung out of the window, it probably needs a huge great big lock on it.
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I think, these days, that you let the topics start. You trust that among your membership are people that will discuss both sides of the topic, point out where one side is being overly sensitive and the other side is being bigoted. As mods, you step in not to stop the topic because you personally disagree with the tone of the OP or how it's digressed but if people try to silence one side of the discussion by sulking or bullying rather than making a valid point.
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Serioulsy, I think if you can still see a glimmer of respect, the threads probably a fair one, when it's been flung out of the window, it probably needs a huge great big lock on it.
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