edscoble-
I'd thought sexism is not to be taken lightly.
And as a society we recognise that there are grades of intent and harm. We know the difference between things planned, with high severity, and things that are mild, impulsive and low severity.
There's an ocean between the extremes, and there's a lot of grey area in which everything becomes highly subjective, the intent debatable, the meaning of the sentiment behind it bordering on a tautological or metaphysical debate.
If I banned everyone in the grey area, you would be banned edscoble. Almost everyone would be banned. Shit, I'd have to be banned. There's few to no-one on here that has never ever posted anything that someone could find objectionable.
All I'm asking is what I've always asked for... the community should police itself.
And I'm happy to step in as an enforcer when things are freaking obviously out there (spam, threats of violence, hardcore porn, etc). And I'm happy step in as an enforcer for the lesser things when it can be shown that the person in question was moderated by the community, people pulled them up on it, asked for an explanation, offered the chance to correct it... and then if they fail to conform to the community idea of acceptable standards, and if I believe that this really is the community (rather than individual) desire to have this enforced... I'll enforce it.
But... this issue has been flagged ONLY in this thread or via PM. The guy has never been confronted (or no-one is showing me he has).
Am I expected to drop a nuke, on a plausible greyzone issue, on that basis?
I won't do it.
Pull the guy up and show me and the world this isn't acceptable behaviour, and then depending on how he reacts (including ignoring it, which is an action), then I'll act accordingly.
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Velocio
Citations please.
As far as I can see right now, @ABCNews posted a single foul comment, that no-one challenged in the thread.
If he's a repeat offender, show me.
If he's an alias of banned aliases, tell me which ones.
As it stands, I'm letting the community moderate it. Which doesn't mean when people call me I'll just ban, it means when I see something is unacceptable because the community reacts and says "We don't want this", and does so in a way that tries to correct the behaviour of people posting foul content, gives them a chance to do so... then, when it's clear the person isn't going to change, then I'll nuke them.
But first thing is, if you disagree with the post, call him on it. Not me.
If you think there's prior, and that stuff was called out, then move on to showing me that history.
If you think there's justification for an instant ban because he's been banned before or is an alias of a banned person, show me that stuff.