The TOU are impossibly vague and subjective ...
What do words like "harassing, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, or improper" mean to hundreds of thousands of different people from all walks of life?
SI has done the best they can to get the idea across ... hey, guys, try to be nice to each other, ok?
To expect some SI administrator to adjudicate every instance of a difference of opinion about what is "improper" is so impossible as to be ludicrous in the extreme.
By any reasonable standard of common sense, SI can only act in cases where the offense is clear, unambiguous, and egregious. (And we can spend the rest of the week arguing among ourselves as to what those words mean).
What it boils down to is that we are on our own here, as we have to be.
I agree with you that if some folks want to hammer our contracts among themselves, fine, but they should leave the rest of us out of it. Moreover, contracts have to be mutual, an no one can insist upon having a contract with another poster who doesn't want one.
Why should SI be different from any other community, like the towns we live in, where one person's right to block another's freedom of speech are subject to an extremely high bar? |
