What should be a bannable offense?
 

I want to know under what circumstances a member should be banned.

This is being asked so that Mod guidelines can be written for all Mods, but with hotbeds of opinion like OT in mind.

So, if I call Saddam a twat, and Bush a terrorist, is it going too far? Am I 'bannable' in your opinion?

Note that if no-one replies to this there is no comeback when I ban the lot of you. :D

I would say: personal insults. Respect should be high on the list. Doesn't mean that we can't be joking around. As long as it stays 'tongue in cheek' (that's the correct English expression, isn't it?).

yeah, personal attacks must be prohibited!

i think personal attacks on a poster should be prohibited. but if somebody wants to call bush a terrorist then maybe he should. how do you see their point of view when they aren't aloud to express themselves fully? of course if it's just flaming with no reasoning behind the post, that's a different story... i would handle that situation by asking them to please calm down instead of banning them on the spot.

personal attacks, (repeat) offences of deletable postings (child porn and so on), intentional PBEm spoiling in 'wrongÄ' threads(! - I'm serious about this one!).

personal opinion is OK for me, let someone call Bush a terrorist. But if that poster does it tohurt the feelings of another, then crack down on him (and I know this will be hard to determine. an idealistic goal).

I think the CFC guidelines are pretty good. It's what constitutes trolling that is sometimes difficult.

Personal attacks, continuous trolling... Well, I think the 'social control' (don't know if that's english btw) will straighten that out before someone's got to be banned.

For the rest: I don't think you can call George W. an asshole, that's not very constructive. But, if you can come up with a reason, it's fine by me (i.e. George W. is an asshole, because...)

Just a hypothetical example, of course.

Oh, I just want to add something to this. This thread is on bannable offenses, but we should also discuss on what should be moderated, or when warnings should be issued.

And on personal offences: take note that a lot of people identify theirselves with, for example, their leader. So, if you'd call Sadam an asshole, you're insulting all the Iraqi's on this site.

Yes - thats important. What may seem like a bit of harmless fun to one person is perceived very differently by another.

OK guys,

So what is the difference between this site and CFC?

Same guildlines, same rules and probably the same personal opinions colouring the banning by the Moderators.

Shame thought this was going to be the Civ3 forum without rules, guess I was wrong. And all this from anarres the anarchist.

Melifluous