Hello P&N forum members and community at large,
Three months ago this community voted on, and approved, the adoption of a "No Personal Attacks/Insults" policy as captured in this community poll thread.
The policy was intentionally implemented with an expiration date such that the community would have the opportunity to assess for themselves whether or not an anti-personal attacks policy was workable and have the desired effect by way of a trial period.
That trial period expires today (Jun 06, 2012).
As such, this new poll is dedicated to the community voting on permanent adoption of the same "No insults and no personal attack" policy that has been in effect since Mar 06, 2012.
From a moderator standpoint we would like to see this policy permanently adopted for all the obvious reasons. There doesn't appear to be any down-sides to the policy considering it has already been in effect these past 3 months. And the effectiveness of the policy will only increase as time goes on and the moderators have more time to allocate to the pursuit of minimizing friction and ill-will between community members.
However, regardless the preference of the moderators, the decision is up to the community, so please log your vote - for or against - the permanent adoption of the same "no insults and no personal attacks" policy that has been in effect these past 3 months.
If adopted then we basically just keep the status quo from the past 3 months. If not adopted then we go back to the way things were last winter (for better or worse).
One note of clarification - very recently we had to amend this rule to reduce the volume of false leads and misreports on what were turning out to not be bonafide personal attacks. That amendment was very much a temporary measure to deal with what was hoped to be a temporary resource shortfall. The rule being voted on here is not for permanent adoption of the recently amended rule; rather, it is for adoption of the full monte "no insults" rule as was originally voted on by the community back in March.
The reported post queue has quelled down, as expected and as needed, and we feel we can once again return to the full implementation of the original "no insults" rule.
Meaning anyone and everyone can report posts which they feel contain personal attacks or insults.
The poll will be open for 7 days. Thank you for your time.
Administrator Idontcare
Three months ago this community voted on, and approved, the adoption of a "No Personal Attacks/Insults" policy as captured in this community poll thread.
The policy was intentionally implemented with an expiration date such that the community would have the opportunity to assess for themselves whether or not an anti-personal attacks policy was workable and have the desired effect by way of a trial period.
That trial period expires today (Jun 06, 2012).
As such, this new poll is dedicated to the community voting on permanent adoption of the same "No insults and no personal attack" policy that has been in effect since Mar 06, 2012.
From a moderator standpoint we would like to see this policy permanently adopted for all the obvious reasons. There doesn't appear to be any down-sides to the policy considering it has already been in effect these past 3 months. And the effectiveness of the policy will only increase as time goes on and the moderators have more time to allocate to the pursuit of minimizing friction and ill-will between community members.
However, regardless the preference of the moderators, the decision is up to the community, so please log your vote - for or against - the permanent adoption of the same "no insults and no personal attacks" policy that has been in effect these past 3 months.
If adopted then we basically just keep the status quo from the past 3 months. If not adopted then we go back to the way things were last winter (for better or worse).
One note of clarification - very recently we had to amend this rule to reduce the volume of false leads and misreports on what were turning out to not be bonafide personal attacks. That amendment was very much a temporary measure to deal with what was hoped to be a temporary resource shortfall. The rule being voted on here is not for permanent adoption of the recently amended rule; rather, it is for adoption of the full monte "no insults" rule as was originally voted on by the community back in March.
The reported post queue has quelled down, as expected and as needed, and we feel we can once again return to the full implementation of the original "no insults" rule.
Meaning anyone and everyone can report posts which they feel contain personal attacks or insults.
The poll will be open for 7 days. Thank you for your time.
Administrator Idontcare
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