Happy New Year everyone! May 2011 be fabulous for you. Now, this post here is a little bit serious, so I ask that you please read it carefully.
Artists_beware's purpose is to be an informative community regarding the negative (and the positive) in the world of commissioned and traded artwork, fursuits and professional going-ons in the world of art on the whole (advice, scam warnings, etc).
What we are not is a community that drama mongers, harshly critiques out of hand, performs witch hunts/trolling or openly drops dox (private information that could lead to real-life harassment for the exposed person) on anyone posted here within the community. We are not a *chan-style board, therefore the shenanigans that go on there, do not happen here.
We are also not a community for voicing opinions on hot-button issues, or uses of various terminology. These discussions actually derail the true point of a post, and should be curbed as much as possible.
Please re-familiarize yourself with our community rules (which have received several updates over the last year), and treat the community like the professional place it is.
Thank you, and again Happy New Year!
EDIT/Clarification taken from a comment made by
kerstin_orion:
We're not trying to make a new rule here. We just want people to PM or email us mods instead of commenting on offensive terms in others' comments, because while some people are mature enough to handle a 'hey, that term is offensive' comment, others are not. As moderators, if the person reacts poorly to our 'correction', we have the ability to deal with the offensive comment through thread freezing and (if it's bad enough) comment screening.
No new rules have been placed into this post, this post is a reminder of what our community is about, and to simply to re-read the current rules, and again, if something seems to go out of hand somewhere - contact us rather than handle it on your own.
Artists_beware's purpose is to be an informative community regarding the negative (and the positive) in the world of commissioned and traded artwork, fursuits and professional going-ons in the world of art on the whole (advice, scam warnings, etc).
What we are not is a community that drama mongers, harshly critiques out of hand, performs witch hunts/trolling or openly drops dox (private information that could lead to real-life harassment for the exposed person) on anyone posted here within the community. We are not a *chan-style board, therefore the shenanigans that go on there, do not happen here.
We are also not a community for voicing opinions on hot-button issues, or uses of various terminology. These discussions actually derail the true point of a post, and should be curbed as much as possible.
Please re-familiarize yourself with our community rules (which have received several updates over the last year), and treat the community like the professional place it is.
Thank you, and again Happy New Year!
EDIT/Clarification taken from a comment made by
kerstin_orion:We're not trying to make a new rule here. We just want people to PM or email us mods instead of commenting on offensive terms in others' comments, because while some people are mature enough to handle a 'hey, that term is offensive' comment, others are not. As moderators, if the person reacts poorly to our 'correction', we have the ability to deal with the offensive comment through thread freezing and (if it's bad enough) comment screening.
No new rules have been placed into this post, this post is a reminder of what our community is about, and to simply to re-read the current rules, and again, if something seems to go out of hand somewhere - contact us rather than handle it on your own.
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Can you elaborate on this? It sounds like you're saying hat things like offensive comments should just be ignored.
We can see what you see and either deal with it publicly or privately depending on the situation.
Just know that we are keeping a careful eye on things although we may not always speak. We also talk to the other moderators so we are in agreement about things we do like this post.
(To my fellow Moderators. I deleted a duplicate to this post because my Internet went crazy)
Edited at 2011-01-01 06:31 pm (UTC)
LJ Staff have allowed in the past initials in place of a real name.
As the info says, we are always open to suggestions for sites. Thanks for the suggestions/corrections! I will work on updating the list soon.
If somebody uses a word, for example, 'gypped'; this is not against the rules - but if somebody asks them not to use the word, that is against the rules? Am I understanding that correctly?
Just as a word or an inappropriate turn of phrase can be offensive to you, its also offensive and disrespectful to the OP for comments to go off topic, and/or comments that basically lead to drama mongering (aka posts of "in b4 omg gypped is offensive", etc.).
We moderators ourselves are going to try and keep these hot-button words out of posts (rejecting them or we might approve and tell them in the first post they might want to omit X-word), but if one should escape our notice, we are asking that the members attempt to ignore that slip of their internet tongue and just get to the root of the issue in the post itself.
I understand that some would want to see it corrected immediately, but we really are not the community for these types of things.
Wow. Instead of curtailing discussion about offensive language and "hot button issues", how about you ban the offensive language itself? Don't ban the discussion and education, ban the bigotry.
Damn.
There's a button every OP can click to not get comments emailed to them, and I really don't see the hardship to have some off-topic comments.
I'm not saying that I agree with Lilenth's tone above but telling her to go and not let the door hit her on the way out for voicing her opinion seems rough. It's a community, I totally respect that you guys "own" it but communities need members too. There are totally better ways to handle disagreement--namely discussion. Discussion doesn't HAVE to change the rules, but it will make people much less likely to be angry because they feel like children being scolded. I'd like to think I'm a very reasonable person and I find the rule-change to be a bit overbearing. Comments like this from a mod is nothing short of offensive...that is not the way a mod should address members--it's insulting.
We definitely have had issues with some members making entirely inappropriate comments--namely things like telling I_K he's not welcome "in b4" comments, unjustified critiques and others, but I'm not sure the rule changes will address this at all. The people doing it are either ignorant to the rules or just don't care enough to act professional. That is the riffraff that moderation is supposed to clean up, not healthy discussion in the comments.
That said, I respect that this is Kerstin's community and will abide by the rules even if I don't agree.
As for this post specifically, we're not trying to make a new rule here. We just want people to PM or email us mods instead of commenting on offensive terms in others' comments, because while some people are mature enough to handle a 'hey, that term is offensive' comment, others are not. As moderators, if the person reacts poorly to our 'correction', we have the ability to deal with the offensive comment through thread freezing and (if it's bad enough) comment screening.
It would be lovely if people didn't use these terms to begin with (what a place the internet would be if they didn't!)
I fully support the suggestions given here, and should an issue arise I'll be sure to notify the mods.
Edited at 2011-01-04 01:50 am (UTC)