General Moderation Topic

[ClutchLinkey]

Wait, so what were the consequences of these actions? Inquiring minds want to know.

[jlw]

@ClutchLinkey

Wait, so what were the consequences of these actions? Inquiring minds want to know.

Termination with extreme prejudice.

[docosc]

Good.

[jlw]

User garyprob banned for failing to be cool.

[Mindysan33]

@jlw

garyprob

[d_r]

@jlw

banned for failing to be cool.

West Side Story (9/10) Movie CLIP - Cool (1961) HD

[Melizmatic]

[orenwolf]

User NormaCenva has been banned from the BBS for directly attacking other users via PM.

Our community guidelines are not restricted to public posts, and please do flag PMs that violate our guidelines the same as you would a public post.

[Mindysan33]

[orenwolf]

@orenwolf

This seems to be a running theme, and Ghost and Glerg have been removed for essentially the same reason, with the added benefit of complaining that the community took issue with their off-topic ranting, held up by moderators, then felt the need to post about how disappointed they were in the communities’ choices.

I refer you back to my earlier message regarding the likelihood that Boing Boing will, from time to time, publish stories some people consider unworthy of their time. I strongly recommend said people not waste their time reading them , then, rather than deciding the community deserves to have their time wasted by flagging their posts, instead.

Another set of disappointed users who apparently signed up to try and ensure Boing Boing only covers topics of their choosing in the way they wish has been removed.

Also from my earlier comments on the subject:

@orenwolf

Boing Boing is the sum total of many diverse voices , posting about the things that interest them. Sometimes those voices disagree. Sometimes they cover topics others aren’t interested in. Sometimes those voices repeat each other. We regret the latter, but the former traits are part of what, in my opinion, makes this place so wonderful in the first place.

This necessarily means that not every story may be of interest to every Mutant. Them’s the breaks. But putting in the effort to make sure everyone is aware of your displeasure, every time a topic comes up you don’t want covering contributes nothing to the BBS as a whole. You are welcome to redirect your eyeballs to other wonderful areas of Boing Boing that do interest you instead. I promise it will be more productive and fulfilling than complaining about the parts that do not interest you!

[jlw]

User dabird suspended for 24 hours for almost helping identify a typo.

[orenwolf]

User getoffmylawn anonymized at user request.

[orenwolf]

User farnaby has been banned from the BBS. First for trying to gatekeep a topic and declare themselves judge and jury over what was apprioriate within it (which, seriously, with the diversity of minds our Happy Mutants have, isn’t ever going to end well). Unfortunate, but not itself bannable.

…However! When you then take that gatekeeping and ratchet it up to personal attacks and threats of violence, well…

[Mindysan33]

[orenwolf]

User bozobub has been banned, after it became clear that they were following users around to harass them, something they had been previously suspended for in the past. In fact, looking at their past behaviour I would have been far less tolerant today, but I did not handle that ban. I do not suffer predators on the BBS, and nor should anyone else have to.

Being an asshat and a predator is bad enough, but when you are given a second chance and still do it while simultaneously trying to justify your behaviour as appropriate because you are being “attacked” (by mutants disagreeing with you), and calling out that you have no intention of flagging posts or otherwise participating in community moderation, your removal is far overdue, and I apologize on behalf of the modteam for not having put 2+2 together regarding this user in the past.

[Melizmatic]

Thank you.

[orenwolf]

User ReallySorryAboutThat, a self-professed boomerang user who left and returned, has been banned. The user had repeatedly fought with Regular mutants on the site, going so far as to add accusations of gatekeeping and brigading in their user profile. They had recently taken to disappearing for months at a time only to return and pick a fight with specific users when they did so.

We do “gatekeep”, in that we have a heavily moderated forum and expect users to treat each other with respect. We also have a active, engaged userbase here (thank you!), and that means that you can expect your opinions and comments here to be challenged, debated, and questioned. Others doing so is not an attack - it is the sign of a robust, skeptical, diverse community. Making those rebuttals of your position personal, especially when for some reason those personal rebuttal attacks seem to strangely only target our members who have identified as Women, brings no value to the BBS and worse, paints a picture of ongoing harassment we can’t permit to continue.

This is also my ongoing reminder that if you feel a poster has gone too far, flag their post. We will review it and take action (just look to the 1276 posts above for proof of that fact). Choosing instead to go after the user in a public topic serves to do nothing but inflame the situation and almost certainly derail the actual conversation taking place in the topic. Please have more respect for your fellow mutants than that.

Thank you.

[Mindysan33]

[teknocholer]

@orenwolf

We do “gatekeep”, in that we have a heavily moderated forum and expect users to treat each other with respect.

We are the Gatekeepers. We do not forget. Expect us.

[Mindysan33]

@teknocholer

Gatekeepers