fschmidt wrote: ↑December 5th, 2022, 11:50 am
Pixel--Dude wrote: ↑December 5th, 2022, 11:17 am
Mercer goes for @MarcosZeitola all the time without being provoked. @Outcast9428 only tried to help him and Mercer started making insults about Outcast9428's girlfriend. Allowing this kind of behaviour to go unchecked just means good members of this forum will get fed up and leave.
Here is
MarcosZeitola on Mercer and
Outcast9428 on Mercer. Both are a steady stream of insults.
@fschmidt please provide me with an example of how someone would breach the rules 3 and 4 of the forum which would result in you taking action as a moderator? Is it what you arbitrarily decide?
An example is that I banned a user who threatened to dox another user. That is serious harassment.
Also, why is there suggestions and feedback sections of the forum when you don't care what people are suggesting or asking for.
I am always willing to listen to ideas, so suggestions and feedback is fine. But I don't care about popular opinion, so I ignore polls.
Yes, threatening to dox another user is a pretty shitty thing to do. What about in the context of personal insults? Is there a limit to how far people can go? I seem to remember
@Tsar had to apologise and promise not to insult people anymore in order for his ban to be overturned. But other users are given a pardon and allowed to say vile things about people's girlfriends.
In
@Outcast9428s case he is telling the truth. He was really patient with Mercer and tried to help him. In my eyes this is not a provocation and Mercer constantly coming for him as a result constitutes as an unprovoked attack. A breach of rule 3 or 4 or both.
You are mistaken if you think this is about restricting free speech. That is not what I want for this forum. I've been banned from countless sub Reddits for simply expressing a contrary opinion before and that is shit.
I'm not saying our black pilled friend shouldn't be able to post his innate garbage about how shit everything is, as you said that's his right. But as someone who has actually observed his behaviour I made this thread as a response for people who are sick of him personally insulting people in almost every post he makes. Most people voted in favour of action being taken against him. Even if he gets a warning I'm sure he'd back off and mind his own business.
But it's up to you and Winston.
@Mercer I did say I would take action against you. But wasn't that a joke?
You keep saying I'm against free speech and I want to silence people whose opinions that I don't like, but if I did that I wouldn't have many people here to talk to. I dislike most people's opinions on here, but appreciate the rich characters who are so f***ing different they make this place really interesting.
I'm all for you posting your negative stuff, buddy. I just think you need to chill out and stop going for everyone
@Winston will decide for himself whether I should become a moderator. I will respect his decision either way. I only offered because at the time fschmidt wasn't around and neither was Winston that much. It seemed like new users weren't getting approved and I offered to help out because I really like this forum
I made a poll about this so Winston could see what others think. A few people voted no because they don't like me personally, which is fine. But those who know me know that I'm not about infringing on free speech. Freedom in all aspects is one of my core values. I just disagree with our moderator friend
@fschmidt that free speech extends to endless personal insults (with no other content) and this does seem to conflict with rules 3 and 4 of the forum.
That's just my opinion though. Others may disagree. Shemp thinks we should be able to insult each other, but I think we need definitive clarification on what is acceptable behaviour on Happierabroad and what is not. As it seems to be one rule for one and another rule for someone else. Good leadership requires consistency. That's all I'll say on this matter. If Mercer is left to continue as he has been then I guess we'll have to shut the f**k up and tolerate it
You are free to make any decision you desire, but you are not free from the consequences of those decisions.