To all fellow CHFB members:
The Classic Horror Film Board is a wide-ranging community with many different voices. Some are gentle, celebrating the wonder of the films we love. Others are more sharply edged, pointing out the clay feet of creators and their works. And still others are argumentative, ready to rip apart a posting at the slightest provocation.
We need, as a community, to allow all those voices and more. But there are rules (posted here and at the bottom of the main CHFB page), aimed at preventing the kind of wild-west attack fests that so plague so many other boards.
We are adding a new rule. Let's call it the Anti-Stalking Ordinance. It's pretty simple:
-- Members should not seek out nor attack other members on forum after forum simply because the other member rubs them the wrong way.
We all, moderators included, know CHFB members whose posts we think are annoying, wrong-headed, self-serving, overly sugary, overly mean, combative, sickeningly PC, cloaked racist, anti-religious, homophobic, rose-colored, muddled, hypocritical, left, right or other worldly. I'm sure I fit into several of those categories!
But that doesn't give anyone the right to seek the "offending" member out, to poke holes in whatever the other member posts for the sheer sport of it, and disrupt both the conversation and the board as a whole. Because inevitably the "annoying' one responds, things escalate, and it becomes ugly for everyone. Witness other boards where the venom has risen to the levels of physical threats, obscene gestures and terrible ugliness.
So starting now, the "stalker" will be at some risk here, facing temporary removal from discussions or worse if the behavior persists.
If a member does something outrageous, notify a moderator about it. Remember please that WE moderate the boards, not you going one-on-one with somebody.
Arguments are fine. But once things become "that's typical of you," or "you hypocrite" and the like, you are headed in the wrong direction. And if you seek another member out on a puncture-his-or-her-argument-just-because-it's-him-or-her, then you're stalking.
I think if we all start respecting one another -- even those we totally disagree with -- the better a place the CHFB will be.
Thanks.
david
The Classic Horror Film Board is a wide-ranging community with many different voices. Some are gentle, celebrating the wonder of the films we love. Others are more sharply edged, pointing out the clay feet of creators and their works. And still others are argumentative, ready to rip apart a posting at the slightest provocation.
We need, as a community, to allow all those voices and more. But there are rules (posted here and at the bottom of the main CHFB page), aimed at preventing the kind of wild-west attack fests that so plague so many other boards.
We are adding a new rule. Let's call it the Anti-Stalking Ordinance. It's pretty simple:
-- Members should not seek out nor attack other members on forum after forum simply because the other member rubs them the wrong way.
We all, moderators included, know CHFB members whose posts we think are annoying, wrong-headed, self-serving, overly sugary, overly mean, combative, sickeningly PC, cloaked racist, anti-religious, homophobic, rose-colored, muddled, hypocritical, left, right or other worldly. I'm sure I fit into several of those categories!
But that doesn't give anyone the right to seek the "offending" member out, to poke holes in whatever the other member posts for the sheer sport of it, and disrupt both the conversation and the board as a whole. Because inevitably the "annoying' one responds, things escalate, and it becomes ugly for everyone. Witness other boards where the venom has risen to the levels of physical threats, obscene gestures and terrible ugliness.
So starting now, the "stalker" will be at some risk here, facing temporary removal from discussions or worse if the behavior persists.
If a member does something outrageous, notify a moderator about it. Remember please that WE moderate the boards, not you going one-on-one with somebody.
Arguments are fine. But once things become "that's typical of you," or "you hypocrite" and the like, you are headed in the wrong direction. And if you seek another member out on a puncture-his-or-her-argument-just-because-it's-him-or-her, then you're stalking.
I think if we all start respecting one another -- even those we totally disagree with -- the better a place the CHFB will be.
Thanks.
david
