New threads that are titled or described to be a forum to "harass" or "attack" another member will be deleted. Existing threads meeting that criteria will be modified as warranted.
Of course, that leads to the larger issue of new and/or existing threads that could be argued to be forums for exactly that type of content, despite their titles, descriptions, or original topic/purpose. Practically every politically oriented thread has varying amounts of content that could be construed as attacking the messenger instead of the message. It comes with the territory, and nothing short of a Herculean effort by the membership and administration can cure it, given the constraints of human nature and current system design.
As many of you have noticed, we renamed a little used forum into "Politics/Government, etc." and moved many of the politically oriented threads to it. (There will be additional refinements in site organization after the new UI is completed.) In the meantime, segregating the political threads from other Coffee Shop and Investment threads will allow us to focus TOU enforcement on discussion areas which bring greater value to the site. The greatest degree of attention will be given towards Investment threads, followed by Coffee Shop, then Politics/Government. Some threads within the first two groups may, for now, receive some discretionary dispensation regarding TOU enforcement; some examples include but are not limited to threads created for humor and idle chat, as well as some heritage investment threads. However, members should be reminded that more egregious violations of the TOU, solely as determined by the site admins, will be subject to administrative action as described in the TOU. |
