Posted by Dinah on July 31, 2008, at 12:44:11
In reply to Re: Announcement of Policy Changes, posted by Tabitha on July 31, 2008, at 12:20:07
The reason it sounds a bit contradictory is that there is a bit of the dialectic in it.
Dr. Bob's goal is to have Babble police itself. For posters to handle conflict themselves, in a civil manner. He'd like us to move towards that. The less administrative action, the better.
But this doesn't always happen. In the past, we've parsed posts that sounded uncivil to see if the words are actually in violation of the civility guidelines. In some cases they weren't. This just allows deputies to use a bit more judgment.
It's not really as bit a change as it may sound. Dr. Bob would have probably just started enforcing it. I've never thought it was right to move the line without telling people first. I think it's far more fair to explain up front.
We're not going to go around searching for posts that aren't respectful or sensitive. We hope that others realize that sometimes posters are a bit irritable or testy, and we realize that as well. We'd like posters to work that out themselves whenever possible. But we would like posters to honor administrative requests, should we feel that there is an issue that needs to be addressed.
poster:Dinah
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