Well, was that a requested sermon? Exactly who is going to report me, and what would be the benefit??
Does OzBenz punish me, or is that left to someone else?? Richard Smiles, knowing he's doing his best to keep the list from becoming barren and soulless. On Thursday, March 27, 2014 8:17 PM, Hendrik and Fay <heni...@gmail.com> wrote: I don't think a very strict code of conduct will do anything to improve the list, the end result being half the list dobs the other half in for minor violations. Even the original demand for moderation left a bitter taste in the mouth, that sort of thing should be done in private I think. What about links that contain 'adult' content or referencing a story that includes vulgar stuff. (it is netiquette to include a warning if a posted link contains mature content, ie NSFW (for those who don't know that one: Not Safe For Work, plenty of people have gotten into trouble for clicking on a link that they got in the email and all off a sudden there are female breasts bouncing on the screen)) If we get to the stage where everyone is on their tippy toes scared to say or post stuff because someone may take mild offence, this list will become pretty barren and soulless. Every good list/forum needs to have a bit of fun off topic banter, sure there needs to be limits but I think self moderation is the order of the day at this stage. If that don't work out, then we can revisit this. Remember folks it wasn't profanity that was the problem it was how that profanity was used towards others. Anyway end of the day it's up to Kaleb to determine the standard of behaviour here and we all have to abide by his decision. I may have mentioned that I am a mod on the OzBenz list and part of the job is to monitor what people say, the standard there is PG to mild M rating, so I let some words slide but censor others. Unless it's a bad violation I usually just edit the post by replacing the bad word with a less bad word. If the poster has a problem or is a serial offender than it's up to the admins to deal with it, as it is not my job to warn people. WTF is not a drama there and we even have a emoticon that waves a flag with the initial BS on them, which I surmise stands for bloody stupid? Actually we have a section for 'tell him he's dreaming' (kinda like crackhead of the day here) and WTF and the BS smily are there just about every day. We have a fairly broad membership at OzBenz, ranging from young people who own or want to own a Benz as their first car up to pretty old folk. So we try to accomodate all of them and have sections for modifying Benzes, where people who like originality should not go and recently we set up a section for adult stuff. This actually came about after I had an altercation with someone about their standard of behaviour and what he was posting in the forum. Funny thing is that it gets very little traffic but is handy if a thread starts to get out of control, as they sometimes do. Hendrik who may have said the word bugger once or twice but thinks he got away with it On 27/03/14 23:32, Craig wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:33:31 -0400 "arche...@embarqmail.com" > <arche...@embarqmail.com> wrote: > >> Kaleb was the first person I heard use it. Acronyms like WTF should be >> no problem, but thinly disguised profanity might since it sounds sh-tty. >> Gerry > I vote for strict interpretation of Kaleb's statement on this list. That > is what it always has been and that's why Banned existed. > > > Craig _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
