by bigmick » Mon Jul 06, 2009 1:06 am
I've been on about this for a while now and just wondered what everyone else thinks. The system as is doesn't work. It doesn't work for the forum, it doesn't work for the mods and it doesn't achieve what it's supposed to, ie moderating behaviour, sorting out spats etc.
The reason it doesn't work is that it's outdated, and applying the rules as they are with impartiality is nigh on impossible. If people get banned they come back under an alias, some members are inevitably given more leeway as they are part of the furniture etc. IMHO it would be better if we had a fully transparent system which was workable and easy to understand. There should be clearly laid down guidelines as to what is and what isn't OK, and transgressors should be sorted nice and quick. If you are a genuine Liverpool fan, by and large the forum should welcome you on and not seek to ban you indefinately. We should allow all banned Liverpool fans back IMHO with a clean slate.
It should be a yellow for bad behaviour which stands for a week or two, followed by a straight red which also stands for a week or two. The new rules though ought IMHO to be rigorously applied.
Here's my stab at a few guidelines:
Abuse of other members with the use of words such as c... and w@nker should not be tolerated. "Funny" abuse though should be OK (I'm talking SOME of Lando and Barry's here), but if it is sustained it should result in a card.
P!ss taking of people's "illnesses" or family members, be they their kids or mothers or whatever should not be tolerated. Out of order and a straight card.
Racism, overt anti OOTerness, homophobia and the like should be stamped out instantly. Any comments which allude to fans not having a clue because they are a girl/American/young etc shouldn't be allowed.
Comments such as some of Aces recent ones where he has appeared to wish that Owen prospers in a Man Utd shirt shouldn't be allowed either. They are inflammatory IMHO and invite spats.
All in all though it should be simple. Get on someones case with a bit of abuse and there should be a warning on the open forum (none of this PM nonsense) if it's not too bad. If it is, there should be a card. Once someone is banned for a couple of weeks or whatever the mandatory period is, if they come back under a pseudonym, they should be banned for life. Whether or not they agree with the penalty, if the system is fair and transparent they should respect the decision and the process.
I think it would make the forum better, and some of the better posters who are currently banned could come back and make the forum better than it currently is.
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bigmick on Mon Jul 06, 2009 1:11 am, edited 1 time in total.
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