Rock head lays down the law

[Carl]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024742253

Fri Mar 28, 2014, 10:29 AM

Star Member MineralMan (62,586 posts)

DU: Our Community Standards
My boldfacing on this excerpt from this link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=aboutus

Our Community Standards

It is the responsibility of all DU members to participate on our discussion forums in a manner that promotes a positive atmosphere and encourages good discussions among a diverse community of people holding a broad range of center-to-left viewpoints. Members should refrain from posting messages on DU that are disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate. pardon me for a minute... These broad community standards of behavior are maintained through the combined efforts of members posting and serving on citizen juries, using their own best judgment to decide what behavior is appropriate and what is not.

Members who cannot hold themselves to a high standard risk having their posts hidden by a jury of their peers, and being blocked out of discussion threads they disrupt. Those who exhibit a pattern of willful disregard for the Community Standards risk being in violation of our Terms of Service, and could have their posting privileges revoked.


This is what DU juries are supposed to base their decisions on. That's it. The rules here are broad, but the boldfaced sentence is pretty simple. Everything else is a matter for the admins, who make decisions about Terms of Service issues. Here's a link to the DU Terms of Service:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=termsofservice

It's pretty simple, really, and very well constructed, in my own personal opinion. It is what should make DU work smoothly and make it a good place to gather and discuss things.

I'm posting this so people can read it one more time, or for the first time, if they haven't actually read it before.

You tell em Rocky!

Response to MineralMan (Original post)

Fri Mar 28, 2014, 10:55 AM

Star Member Scuba (36,687 posts)
4. As someone who visits several forums, I'd like to remind members that DU has the best behaved ....

... membership/posters by a wide margin. Yes, we occasionally get rude or post crap without basis, but compared to the other forums I visit this place is a model of decorum and fact-based discussion.

Sadly, we've seen popular blogs taken down by their parent sites because of boorish behaviour. The DU jury system is imperfect, but overall we are miles and miles ahead of most sites.

 

Response to MineralMan (Original post)

Fri Mar 28, 2014, 10:56 AM

Star Member PowerToThePeople (3,973 posts)
5. Open profanity sucks

It also lets the trolls run free when it is acceptable. The past few days there have been tons of trolls posting in GD. They can be their natural selves when we allow profane attacks into the discussion. They have a hard time faking being polite.

Response to MineralMan (Reply #16)

Fri Mar 28, 2014, 11:12 AM

Whisp (22,834 posts)
18. We know RWers have existed and exist here right now

There was no naming names in that OP.

How can one explain all the bannings of 'rw trolls' here over the years.
How can one accept that they are now all gone? They aren't.

  You have no idea.  

The cannibals are gathering on each side of the Rubicon.

[Chris_]

Someone should point gothmog to that thread. 

[USA4ME]

The rock boy primitive fancies himself to be some type of board moderator who needs to remind every of the rules, that there are consequences to how you phrase your posts, etc... He tried that crap to someone like me IRL and he'd find himself in a world of hurt.

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[BannedFromDU]

Someone should point gothmog to that thread. 

     He's too busy drawing pictures of dragons on his legal pad and scribbling notes for his 40-years-in-the-making HP Lovecraft ripoff novel.

[Chris_]

He's too busy drawing pictures of dragons on his legal pad and scribbling notes for his 40-years-in-the-making HP Lovecraft ripoff novel.

[GOBUCKS]

Someone is violating Atman McGrath's copyright.