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[sd_admin]

First an announcement: While modbot seemed like a good idea at the time, it's proved to be unpopular with members. From now on we'll be using it only for admin posts, so that they can be edited by all members of the mod team.


We know that some members have had issues with the community and the mod team, and felt like they couldn't bring them to our attention. Here is your chance. If you've got a question, concern or suggestion about Scans Daily, here's where you can post it.

This post will be linked to in our profile, and checked regularly by the mods. Comments won't be screened, so you can suggest amongst yourselves.

Comments

[angelophile]

The thing is that there has to be some fluidity when the question of tone comes up.

Do you believe that, for example, a marginalized member being triggered by a racist, ableist, misogynistic, transphobic or otherwise oppressive comment or scene saying "What an asshole" as an immediate response is on the same level as a privileged member saying "What an asshole" as a response to a colorist coloring Wolverine's hair wrong, for example?

[dr_von_fangirl]

I personally don't think the two offenses are on the same level, no--but we're not talking about personal viewpoint of a given situation, we're talking about trying to interact in a community according to its rules as they are written. For clarification...

Do you consider 'asshole' to be an insult? If so, isn't it automatically not allowed at all thanks to the second rule of the rules of conduct? If it IS allowed in cases of an oppressive/offensive statement being made and an oppressed/offended member responding, could you please--and I mean this in all seriousness--point out to me where in the rules such an allowance is made?

If it IS allowed in the cases of calling out, then perhaps an addendum to the rules which states what is acceptable in a calling out/what I should not consider personally insulting in such instances would be helpful. This might keep some offenders in such situations from automatically blowing their tops when they think they've been attacked in the course of a calling out. It won't keep them all from doing it, but I'd imagine such a clarification would squash a lot of fights before they got started.

[moneyless_jew]

but we're not talking about personal viewpoint of a given situation, we're talking about trying to interact in a community according to its rules as they are written.

Exactly, and this is where the new rules fall apart. They don't account for moderating a large comm.