TOS Amendment Proposal

Originally posted by Raven69
[b]24. Get out of Jail Free Card

To acquire a GooJF Card you must become a member of the PFC and remain a member for a duration of at least four months. [/b]

Where in the world would you get the idea that an arbitrary duration or subjectively determined time of membership sets aside RHP TOS Policy?

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
Sorry to say it but RHP has shown time and again that it has yet to mature into a professionally run site. Until it does mature, it will continue to cater to the juvenile in a juvenile manner. For now it remains a Bush League operation. Perhaps as the owners mature, they'll begin to institute professional level policies, professional level enforcement and a professional level moderation team.

Lighten up my good man, the thread was made in jest.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Where in the world would you get the idea that an arbitrary duration or subjectively determined time of membership sets aside RHP TOS Policy?

See above post.

Originally posted by Raven69
Lighten up my good man, the thread was made in jest.

I had thought that was pretty obvious it was all in jest, when I first looked at it.

Just goes to show you, people don't always take things as it is meant.

But knowing you a bit, helped to know it was just a joke. I guess it could look serious to those not knowing your mischievous ways. 😉

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You know, if all you want is a list of particular ideas, then you've really gone about it in a rather convoluted way. Instead you started with a juvenile gratuitous attack, followed by asking for a forum site to be aspired to, etc. Even here you can't seem to manage to just ask the question. Instead you draw illogical inferences and distort my position. Why don't you try reading my original post again? The intent was to point out that RHP has yet to mature into a professionally run site and that until it does, it will continue to cater to the juvenile in a juvenile manner. Why all these silly games?

Originally posted by tomtom232
Are you a genuine idiot? Or just a poser? Why would anyone running a site do anything but what is popular? I'm sorry Chris and Russ aren't sucking your anus and striving for what would be, in your opinion, a more professional site.

From the content of your post, evidently you are one of the juveniles that this site seems to cater to. You might want to consider that allowing such an atmosphere keeps away many who might otherwise choose to subscribe. If you allow a juvenile atmosphere, your clientele will largely be juvenile. If you allow a largely juvenile crowd to determine policy, then you will never mature into a professionally run organization.

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
You know, if all you want is a list of particular ideas, then you've really gone about it in a rather convoluted way. Instead you started with a juvenile gratuitous attack, followed by asking for a forum site to be aspired to, etc. Even here you can't seem to manage to just ask the question. Instead you draw illogical inferences and distort my position. W ...[text shortened]... s, it will continue to cater to the juvenile in a juvenile manner. Why all these silly games?

Hello. Around here we have a saying:

"Don't feed the troll."

He's just spouting off and trying to draw you into a fight....pretty much what these trolls do with everyone.

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
From the content of your post, evidently you are one of the juveniles that this site seems to cater to. You might want to consider that allowing such an atmosphere keeps away many who might otherwise choose to subscribe. If you allow a juvenile atmosphere, your clientele will largely be juvenile. If you allow a largely juvenile crowd to determine policy, then you will never mature into a professionally run organization.

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Originally posted by SwissGambit
And why should we want all this professionalism? I get plenty of that at my day job. They don't allow discussions of religion, for example, because they are too controversial. The main goal of 'professionalism' is stifling any and all dissent.

I prefer to see free speech reign. I want the chance, as a reader, to decide which posts are worthwhile and which ones are garbage, without some moderator always doing it for me.

You can easily allow discussions of religion and still be professional. If you take time to reflect on it, I'm sure you'll realize that your assertion that "the main goal of 'professionalism' is stifling any and all dissent" doesn't hold water.

Take a look at the guidelines to which this site purports to support:
The following twelve points are the guidelines that should be followed when posting to the forums.

* Discussions in forums can often get heated, but while you may take issue with another poster's viewpoint, you must not resort to personal attacks or abuse. Do not post offensive or inflammatory remarks that stray beyond the bounds of reasoned debate. Calling another poster an "idiot" will leave a post subject to immediate removal.
* Do not post profanity. There may be occasions where the context of certain words may be acceptable, and this will be at the moderators' discretion, however posts containing profanity will often be removed automatically by the "robomod". There will be situations where it removes inoffensive posts, but this is unavoidable.
* Do not post material which is obscene, indecent or pornographic.
* Please stay on topic. There is clearly a subjective judgment to be made as to whether a post strays off topic and in the majority of cases the post will not be deleted unless it is considered to be disruptive to the thread and its participants.
* While it is acceptable to post links to external articles and information, you may not use these forums for advertising or promotion of products or services or canvassing support for political parties or movements. You may post links to personal home pages, but repeated spamming of such links is not permitted.
* Do not make defamatory posts. While reasonable criticism of an individual or organization is not in itself libellous, any post that adversely affects the reputation of a clearly identifiable person or company is likely to be removed.
* Do not harass other members of the community. Harassment is any unwanted conduct including insults, jokes and any remarks affecting the dignity of another. Such conduct could relate to gender, race, nationality, sexuality, religion, disability or other similarly sensitive issues.
* Do not post information which invades the privacy of another individual, or the disclosure of which would breach an individual's reasonable expectation of confidentiality.
* Any posts which are deemed to be incitements to commit criminal offenses, or any post which seeks to influence another to commit an offense will be removed.
* Repeated posting of the same material (spamming) is not acceptable.
* Overly trivial posts may be removed at the discretion of the forum moderators if they are deemed to be disruptive or distracting to the thread and its participants.
* Do not rant. Ranting is defined here as a style of post that comes across as a political broadcast or an angry protest that does little to progress the discussion or to involve other posters. Such postings often feel like an intrusion into the general debate, regardless of the validity of the points being made.

Do you believe these guidelines to be enforced in a professional manner?

Originally posted by Red Night
Demonstrating the Beavis and Butthead approach to forum moderation?

Could you explain? I'm interested in what this is.

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
You can easily allow discussions of religion and still be professional. If you take time to reflect on it, I'm sure you'll realize that your assertion that "the main goal of 'professionalism' is stifling any and all dissent" doesn't hold water.

Take a look at the guidelines to which this site purports to support:
[b]The following twelve points are th ...[text shortened]... e.

Do you believe these guidelines to be enforced in a professional manner?[/b]

I think all of those get broken about every 5 minutes.

Originally posted by Raven69
Lighten up my good man, the thread was made in jest.

Well, I knew that your post was tongue-in-cheek, though I took it as poking fun at the RHP Adminstration. I take it that you were looking to poke fun at those who take exception to the RHP Administration instead.

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
Well, I knew that your post was tongue-in-cheek, though I took it as poking fun at the RHP Adminstration. I take it that you were looking to poke fun at those who take exception to the RHP Administration instead.

I was certainly making fun of someone...but I'll let them figure out who they are. 😉

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
From the content of your post, evidently you are one of the juveniles that this site seems to cater to. You might want to consider that allowing such an atmosphere keeps away many who might otherwise choose to subscribe. If you allow a juvenile atmosphere, your clientele will largely be juvenile. If you allow a largely juvenile crowd to determine policy, then you will never mature into a professionally run organization.

I sure wish it would keep pompous blowhards like you away.

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Your hatred toward RN is boring, repetitive and tiring and so is your rants, please find something more positive to post about. Thank you.

Try rolling that pin ball around in your head for a while and see if it makes you light up.