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Read the rules. Some of that feels just has hoof-wave-y as the ToS always has, but I guess if the site's been around this long and hasn't crashed and burned like I thought on day 2? It's probably not about to crash and burn any time soon.
Sunday, 13-Nov-11 15:23:32 UTC from web-
@retl As one of the authors of the rules, what issue do you have?
Sunday, 13-Nov-11 15:24:21 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark For VI, it may make more sense to either drop the Use Common Sense, make it its own rule, or move it to the end of the text for the rule. It seems to give the impression that the body will be about how to use common sense, but the body of it is more about not taking minor rule breaking to an extreme. It also doesn't explain *why* one shouldn't bother mods for every little thing, even if that might seem common sense to you and me. Generally, "common sense" comes off as a terrible line to see in any rule that isn't invoking questions of sanity and the state of a human being's mind. These rules aren't built for that kind of matter. Explaining said "common sense" or obvious observation in simple words makes it harder to circumvent. -- RE: "VI) Use common sense. Don't pester the mods over every little thing. If someone doesn't want to be your friend, or the "f-word" got used once, or an #NSFW tag was forgotten and the link wasn't that bad, don't be a tattle-tale."
Sunday, 13-Nov-11 15:29:20 UTC from web-
@retl That makes a lot of sense. I'll mention it to Scribus and...whoever else I need to talk to in order to see if we can get it changed.
Sunday, 13-Nov-11 15:32:45 UTC from web -
@retl The part I like is the fact I wasn't asked for an opinion on the rules, I don't know of any other mods or admins that were either, as far as I know one person made them up, they were just put up, and we were told "there they are" so I'm just going to keep doing things the same way I have been.
Sunday, 13-Nov-11 15:34:32 UTC from web
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@ceruleanspark Re: Rule V "that's role play" -> "that's considered role play". A little knit-picky, but I'm pretty sure this rule wouldn't show up in a denotative definitions of the term in any dictionary. Using considered makes it slightly more clear that if it isn't the case elsewhere, it is the case in the present context that this will be treated in this manner. || Re: Rule III) More knit-picking, but unlike the other rule, I have no hard suggestion for this one. "Occasional slips". Occasional is a loose term, and someone could say "Oh, I don't do it that often." to get by with what might be excessive to someone else. Now sometimes, communities can self balance this, which is why I say take this particular knitpick with a grain of salt, but I prefer to see statements like this quantified. Either defined with "less than x(slips)/n(posts/days)" or "X strikes" or "only if someone complains" so that cases of people saying "Oh! I didn't know!" doesn't serve as easy weasel room.
Sunday, 13-Nov-11 15:35:03 UTC from web
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@retl crashed and burned? This site is basically the digital Nuketown.
Sunday, 13-Nov-11 15:24:47 UTC from StatusNet iPhone-
@quetzalcoatl When I signed up for this site, I expected the website to run out of funding and interest and disappear within two months. This has not been the case, and I was pleasantly surprised.
Sunday, 13-Nov-11 15:36:21 UTC from web
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@rotation Well that's supposed to be fixed in software now.
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