Okay. I am going to update the policies on violence (In other words, when should you take things seriously and when should you tell the other person to piss off).
Threats of Legitimate Violence will not be tolerated. What is "Legitimate Violence"? There are two components
Legitmate Violence
First Component
Legitimate Violence means you threaten someone with bodily harm (either a person of interest such as a lolcow, or another member/guest on this forum).
Legitimate Violence means you threaten an outside entity with harm or death such as threatening to shoot up a public place.
Second Component
The person making the threat not only has the means to enforce it but gets off on it.
If someone posts for example mentions about shooting up a public place or harming someone and then gives the impression that he/she is getting their jollies out of posting this, then you will be banned and reported. The first amendment protects a lot of things but a credible threat of harm against someone else is not protected.
Fantasy Violence
Example: I am going to kill you, blow up your character on Minecraft or whatever. On something like this, I won't consider this a credible threat. I would recommend you place someone like this on ignore. If the person goes out of his way to be a pain in the ass, talk to staff about this.
Being A Horse's Ass
Basically if you threaten violence in anger or because you got carried away in the heat of a discussion. I will probably give a short-term ban for you to cool off ( a sort of time out if you will) and I will delete the material in question from public view. I can assume the majority of posters who say stupid things in a period of anger aren't mass shooters or terrorists but there will be a small percentage of unstable individuals that we need to be concerned about. Any feedback here is welcomed.
Threats of Legitimate Violence will not be tolerated. What is "Legitimate Violence"? There are two components
Legitmate Violence
First Component
Legitimate Violence means you threaten someone with bodily harm (either a person of interest such as a lolcow, or another member/guest on this forum).
Legitimate Violence means you threaten an outside entity with harm or death such as threatening to shoot up a public place.
Second Component
The person making the threat not only has the means to enforce it but gets off on it.
If someone posts for example mentions about shooting up a public place or harming someone and then gives the impression that he/she is getting their jollies out of posting this, then you will be banned and reported. The first amendment protects a lot of things but a credible threat of harm against someone else is not protected.
Fantasy Violence
Example: I am going to kill you, blow up your character on Minecraft or whatever. On something like this, I won't consider this a credible threat. I would recommend you place someone like this on ignore. If the person goes out of his way to be a pain in the ass, talk to staff about this.
Being A Horse's Ass
Basically if you threaten violence in anger or because you got carried away in the heat of a discussion. I will probably give a short-term ban for you to cool off ( a sort of time out if you will) and I will delete the material in question from public view. I can assume the majority of posters who say stupid things in a period of anger aren't mass shooters or terrorists but there will be a small percentage of unstable individuals that we need to be concerned about. Any feedback here is welcomed.
