gilo25 opened this issue on Jun 20, 2003 ยท 56 posts
gilo25 posted Mon, 23 June 2003 at 4:08 AM
ok, so let me make some more eyes roll and just paste here what the options are when you are trying to enforce censorship (I personally don't think censorship should be enforced at all, but I certainly accept that this is the prerogative of the management of the site). However if you want to enforce any form of censorship here or anywhere else you must come to terms with one of the following scenarios: 1. You set up rules as detailed as possible and you are willing to work on their fine tuning when it is obvious that they don't address adequately all the situations. 2. If you don't want to work on rules for any reasons (because you don't feel like it or you think it's too difficult or whatever) you need to work on your PR skills. So, when you are faced with a grey situation like this you can tackle it by achieving what you want (i.e. enforcement of censorship) and minimize the risk of upsetting people. To help you, here is a draft message that you could use in the future. 'Dear ... we have noticed you have posted this and this image in such and such gallery. Although we realize that our rules do not cover this specific situation, we have discussed your posting and have come to the conclusion that it may be unsuitable for this community. Rest assured that we will work as soon as possible on the refinement of our rules in order to be able to avoid situations like this OR (if you don't want to work on the rules) We do feel it is very difficult to come up with rules wich are specific and consistent enough, but nonetheless our TOS compels us to enforce some sort of censhorship and we do feel that this posting of yours may be seen as unsuitable in this context. Much to our regret, we have therefore decide to remove it. We are aware however that since it is very difficult to enforce censorship in this context you will find a considerable amount of inconsistencies, in terms of the images posted. We would like to apologize for this from now, and hope you will understand that our task of having to apply generic rules consistently is extremely hard. Rest assured that we do appreciate your contributions, which are valuable for our site, and we would welcome to discuss with you any clarification you may require. Looking forward to your next contribution...' With a text like this you are likely to get rid of 95% of the problems. 3. If you don't want to work on specific rules and you don't want to work on your communication skills, then you need to let the community judge if a posting is suitable or not, as I said before. In this way, it is the community who decides, and you are totally discharged from any responsibility. 4. If you don't want to have specific rules, you don't want to refine your PR skills, you don't want to let the community judge, then you have to be prepared to have more often than not somebody getting upset at this rather arrogant attitude and addressing you wih less than flattering comments.