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bears1 25-May-12, 23:57 |
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ok as a club that is supposed to be open with discussion on any issue as long as it does not breach the rules. dictatorship from any club founder or moderator is nor should be an issue. This is the year of 2012 where we surly are not restricted to SPEECH> |
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maca 26-May-12, 12:02 |
bearz2 wrote: "shutting the timeouts issue is an issue in itself. as a club that is supposed to be open with discussion on any issue as long as it does not breach the rules." The problem is exactly that as far as I can see, the discussion clearly violated the rules. According to the GK Clubs FAQ, the club founder and the moderation staff are responsible of making sure that the discussion in the Clubs complies with all the GK policies: "Club founder is the one responsible for everything that happens in the club (although the club founder can appoint moderators to help with maintaining the club). Any forum posts that violate GameKnot's Rules and Policies must be promptly deleted and an appropriate disciplinary action taken against the person who posted it (an official warning and/or removal from the club). If the offending post hasn't been deleted within 24 hours after the club founder and moderators were informed about it, the club forum will be closed for new posts for 1 week on first occasion, 2 weeks for second violation, 3 weeks for third and so forth. There's no penalty if the offending post is deleted within 24 hours, unless there is an excessive number of violations in the club and/or the club founder/moderators are intentionally waiting until the last possible moment. " gameknot.com Now, here are the first few lines of the GPA Community Standards: "1. You may not harass, insult, badger, threaten or rush other players. 2. You may not use any sexually explicit, vulgar, rude, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, inflammatory, racially or ethnically offensive language and/or images. No exceptions for abbreviated or misspelled words with clear intended meaning. " gameknot.com I personally think that the discussion in the topic mentioned was clearly inflammatory and personal in nature. Of course, one may argue that my judgement is wrong. But then, the GK Clubs FAQ also has this guideline to determine if the language remains within the accepted guidelines: "A good guideline to determine whenever certain language is acceptable or not is whether you would repeat it in front of your young daughter (niece, granddaughter, friend's daughter, etc.). Also, looking up words in the dictionary (here or here, for example) can help. "Vulgar", "obscene" or similar qualifiers in the definition is a good sign that a certain word shouldn't be used on GameKnot. If in doubt, please simply consider using less offensive ways to convey the same meaning — the human language is pretty powerful that way." I think it should be pretty clear-cut. 4boys was certainly entitled to close down the thread, under the conditions set by GK. Let's face it, this doesn't have anything to do with the freedom of speech. Did you notice that 4boys actually started a new thread for the timeout discussion, right here: gameknot.com Surely the new discussion had not been done, if their objective was to deliberately limit our possibilities of expressing ourselves on the matter? Regards, MaCa. |
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