Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4799587-20140909072622/@comment-8843110-20140909105855

SuperSajuuk wrote: I disagree with some of these rules. I will quote them below: Abuse of the Private Message feature. Using the private message feature to send messages that break any of the rules detailed in this policy. Should a user harass you with such messages, please take a screen capture of it and report it to a Chat Mod or Admin. How can you "abuse" PM's? The point of PM's is to allow people a place where they can say what they want outside of main chat so that it's not disruptive (especially as we have multi-PM's as well): if a user doesn't like the messages in question, then they block that user from PM'ing. Taking action against PM's should only occur if actual death threats are used, everything else should be a "block pm's" and not warnings/kicks/bans.

Abusing PMs is like using to for insults.

Using sensitive terms (even out of context) that could offend other users. For example: "I raped the last boss on Legendary difficulty.", "You're acting like a Nazi." or "That is so gay." Whether or not you were joking is irrelevant. These terms may be unoffensive to you, but you must take others into account. This is a place where everyone should be welcome. Asking people to leave the Chat if they are offended is completely unacceptable and people who do should be reported. This rule is pointless, context is key and I can assure you that a lot of these terms are not used in an insulting or derogatory way. This rule only serves to help those who are politically correct and get pissed off by every little thing said in chat. Asking people to assume the reactions of every other person in chat is impossible and in most cases, they'll likely not bother to think of others or will simply not bother posting at all, as it incites "What about him? Oh wait, what about him? Oh no, what should I do?!" behaviour, not an atmosphere we want in the chat.

He just said that "Whether of not you were joking is irrrlevant. These terms maybr unoffensive to you, but you must take others into account."

Under no circumstances should you overturn the decision of another moderator without a prior agreement. No, this rule is pointless. If User A gets blocked by Moderator A, but it's turned out that User A didn't break a policy, it should be perfectly legitimate for any other moderator to remove said block. Again, this gives more protection to those who are politically correct to go around banning people for personal reasons rather than actual rule violations.

'''Not really. Say Moderator A banned User A for personal reasons. Mod B could discuss the ban and see what whats necessary for Mod A so he won't do that.'''

Etiquette policy This was never agreed upon by anyone, it shouldn't even be referenced anywhere in the rules.

'''Yes, it should. Why not?'''