Post by Anastasia on Jun 12, 2010 21:04:14 GMT -5
Rules #1.5 and 2.0 are being voted on at the same time. Here's a link to Rules #1.5: oywrpg4.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=5spam&action=display&thread=3698
If you prefer 1.5 over 2.0 or vice versa, please let us know.
1. Rules of conduct
There's a difference between playful jokes and repetitive harassment and it's no secret that we have a history of the latter. While we'd like to let everyone express themselves as they like in the chat room, certain modes of expression cause way more harm than should be tolerated. These include but are not limited to:
• Complaints of games in progress without first addressing your concerns with the webmaster.
• Trolling of the webmaster/game.
• Repetitive harassment directed at anyone in the chat.
2. Ensuring Equality
Treat others as you would like to be treated. But most importantly, if someone expresses to you in any way that you are harassing them (even if this is not your intent) and they ask you to stop, for goodness sakes just take their word for it and stop.
3. Avenues of Addressing Problems with Moderators
If someone is harassing you and they have not ceded the harassment after you've politely asked them to stop a number of times, seek out the aid of a moderator. The moderator may choose to act either as a mediator (it is up to their discretion), or just simply address the aggressor privately and notify them that if their behaviour doesn't change, they will be reprimanded.
4. Methods of Reprimanding for Infractions
Chat usage is a privilege. If your questionable conduct has been brought to the attention of a chat moderator and they agree that you are stepping over the line, you will at first be given a warning. If the warning is not heeded you will be kicked and banned for 30 minutes. If even this doesn't work, more drastic measures will be taken.
5. Responsibility of Moderators
Being a moderator can be fun and all, but you do seriously have a job to do and are expected not to abuse your mod powers. You are also subject to the same Rules of Conduct and penalties, upon breaking the Rules of Conduct, as anyone else.
If you prefer 1.5 over 2.0 or vice versa, please let us know.
1. Rules of conduct
There's a difference between playful jokes and repetitive harassment and it's no secret that we have a history of the latter. While we'd like to let everyone express themselves as they like in the chat room, certain modes of expression cause way more harm than should be tolerated. These include but are not limited to:
• Complaints of games in progress without first addressing your concerns with the webmaster.
• Trolling of the webmaster/game.
• Repetitive harassment directed at anyone in the chat.
2. Ensuring Equality
Treat others as you would like to be treated. But most importantly, if someone expresses to you in any way that you are harassing them (even if this is not your intent) and they ask you to stop, for goodness sakes just take their word for it and stop.
3. Avenues of Addressing Problems with Moderators
If someone is harassing you and they have not ceded the harassment after you've politely asked them to stop a number of times, seek out the aid of a moderator. The moderator may choose to act either as a mediator (it is up to their discretion), or just simply address the aggressor privately and notify them that if their behaviour doesn't change, they will be reprimanded.
4. Methods of Reprimanding for Infractions
Chat usage is a privilege. If your questionable conduct has been brought to the attention of a chat moderator and they agree that you are stepping over the line, you will at first be given a warning. If the warning is not heeded you will be kicked and banned for 30 minutes. If even this doesn't work, more drastic measures will be taken.
5. Responsibility of Moderators
Being a moderator can be fun and all, but you do seriously have a job to do and are expected not to abuse your mod powers. You are also subject to the same Rules of Conduct and penalties, upon breaking the Rules of Conduct, as anyone else.
• For personal harassment: Do not ban anyone unless a victim has come forward and you've given the aggressor one warning.
• In the case a moderator is the victim they are expected to follow Rule #3 (they can issue the ban themselves or have another moderator do it).
• For game trolling: Left to the moderators discretion. If the moderator isn't sure, they're to get the opinion of the webmaster. In either case, a warning will be issued and will be followed by a ban if the aggressor doesn't stop.
• Repetitive abuse of chat room privileges and/or repetitive abuse of moderation powers will result in the moderator losing their moderation powers.
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Note: Some people have asked for a shorter rule set, and insist that "common sense" should just be used instead of all these "strict rules" and guidelines. I'd like to argue that proper conduct and usage needs to be outlined to decrease problems and ambiguity. For instance a lot of the mods may be new, and giving them a considerable amount of power and not telling them how to use it won't fare well. The new mods will probably do a good job, but chances are they'll either abuse their power (we've tried to choose level-minded people so this wouldn't happen) or do nothing. The latter would mean we'd be right where we started with Ketara (and others) saying "the mods don't act when action needs to be taken."
Overall though, I'm getting conflicting opinions. Dan, who has been the most vocal about this (thank you, Dan) is saying the rules are too vague. While others, who are less vocal but more numerous, are saying the rules are too long and strict. To Dan I say: We can't have 10 pages worth of exactly how chatters and moderators should act. These rules are supposed to be a guideline (to be used with common sense) for what people should expect and what should be expected of them. However, if you want me to reword something, please go right ahead and give me a suggestion as to how. To everyone else: See above paragraph. Then see this thread: oywrpg4.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=5spam&action=display&thread=3697
