28 May 15, 04:33PM
(28 May 15, 02:59PM)Undead Wrote: i completely understand what you're trying to say, you're just wrong, that's all. what you're regarding as "naturally simple" is not exactly simple; be very careful when you tread outside your discipline into other disciplines.
I can't exactly see a discipline here. You might want to call it 'soft skill', but I would just put 'manners' as a headline, to be honest. Everybody has to deal with this interactions as long as he's taking part in the real world. Nothing extraordinary really.
Admittedly, forum moderation is more than just that, I agree. Though I'll stick to my statement that excessively complex laws, or in our case rules and their appendent penalties will not change people's behaviour - let's be careful here and say - who do not participate for reasonable intentions, but instead more likely will create space for more confusion and irritations.
Look, I have no handbook how to behave in my job or band or in heated discussions with family and friends where I can look up all and everything. Though, somehow I still manage to have a whole lot of negotiations, arguments and all kinds of chatter without people starting to spit and yell at each other. Maybe I'm naive, but I do believe that the majority of people is capable of doing so no less and that hopefully it is only a 'loud' minority that aren't, for whatever reasons.
In fact I often wonder if it's really necessary to put rules like 'be respectful' up on a forum board and why one would not know what's the difference between 'fuck off and drop dead' and 'no, I just can't agree here'. Sure, there's a blurred area, like your examples about implicit insults, but you're not going to get this regulated with rules, too. You've got to be realistic and there's where common sense comes in.
Sorry, but I can't help the impression that your greatest concern is to be probably disadvantaged in opposition to the moderators which might get away with one or two more insults than regular users would. Instead of being concerned with the overall low level of the communication we suffer from.
In the end, I'm not to decide anything about this and sure it would be best if you just put some concrete rules to the table so this theoretic blubbering can come to an end.