[2016-06-11] Crackdown on rudeness

Glad you brought up this important issue. It’s important to note that the BLF Rules against rudeness and fighting do not have any conditions whatsoever relating to country of origin or seller/customer status. Please remember that non-spam posts by foreign sellers should be treated with the same courtesy that any other BLF member deserves. There is a real person sitting behind the keyboard that made that post, and they have feelings too, whether they understand English well or not. Of course you are welcome to try to ask for a better deal or haggle on the price. But if you don’t like the seller or you’re not interested in the deal, just step away. If it’s a terrible deal or otherwise unwanted (but not spammy) vendor, they will naturally sink into the background if users simply don’t respond. Responding with personal insults to poor marketing will only bump up the thread and give them more attention.

David Brin

Sometimes you don’t know till you try, if this works out then great, if not then it can be removed or tweaked.

I prefer to keep it simple for now. The Rude! counter automatically ticks back down, and a single user clicking multiple posts won’t get them removed. So even an attack like that wouldn’t have any permanent effect. Of course I will be carefully watching for abuse against the system, and abusers will be punished by permanent banning depending on how they respond to my PMs.

It’s certainly an interesting topic. It will be interesting to see what others deem constitutes rudeness. There will be debate which will also present samples of some of the different types. I hope this works, getting people to excercise control isn’t easy and most don’t even realize that habits of speach can carry built in insults.

I deleted my Grammar Nazi post , can .
Didn’t want to be Rude!

Edit : :innocent:

I honestly think this is great. It creates a ‘level playing field’, so to speak; for all involved… new to old.
No more inequality, whether real or only perceived.

I do find it somewhat hilarious that the OP in this thread was last night, 11 June 2016 at 22:00 hrs. ; I have made exactly one post since that time thanking 2 people for sharing beam shots. This post will be the second one

Yet when I actually found this thread a couple of hours ago, my Rudeness Score was already a 4 of 10.
And while I was reading this thread it actually advance to a 5 of 10. :wink:

I assumed this was for posts moving forward and not going back through old posts???
But you would be able to “see” that behavior I imagine… if anyone chose to do it.

Either way, no worries: this move is a great one Sb as far as I am concerned!

And I know the kinks, if there are any; will work themselves out over the next few days.

I bet this will help us all …… think before we post, as AheadWeMove.

Sincerely………… :+1:

Where does one find their “score”?

Here are a few places:

I’m glad there is no sarcasm button, i’d be banned already :laughing:

Left column, under the “User Menu” section.

Why , oh why is there not a sarcasm font ?
The internet needs a sarcasm font .

Be nice .

Just copied another too-long post to my note pad so’s not to post it. I’ve stashed my soap box for now as it seems to be time for something completely different. Which emoji(s) do you use for sarcasm? :person_facepalming: :stuck_out_tongue:

On this page mine just happened to be alongside this post of yours.

If some one can not tell they are being rude! I will word this nicely! lol they are being a silly billy! We should tell them to. get on ya bike mike! lol

Meh small minded people always have a point to prove be happy with your self. What kind of life are you living if your not happy and you always have taunt some one else?

(I am not a member of CPF but an Australian forum that i frequent Ozbargain i talk to other people that have the same hobby from CPF and i get the feeling that they have to whip out names of thousands of dollars of flashlights to prove a point? I have more respect for some one that builds a light the way they like it. instead of telling me you have a Vihn light worth 400 dollars i really don’t care.) I have only met a few people on here like that but they are also member of CPF :person_facepalming: ) I just added that because i find that attitude rude! But they could always swing this around on me because i am being rude about them being rude hahahaha inception any one?

BLF is the mad science lab of the flashlight community. Keep up the good work!

Wherever you go there are some who really don’t belong there. This seems to be good medicine for dealing with that. And the problem has grown huge everywhere, not just here.

Ham Radio is one of the very few things left mostly to itself for regulation of operations. It has also gone downhill fast. One of the things in the good operators creed of Ham radio is: You never say or do anything which may lessen someone else’s enjoyment of the hobby
I try to take that to heart and apply it everywhere as it is a truly good lesson.

Let there be dissent, let there be debate, but leave the bashing and spite behind, then rise above those who will bring an end to themselves with the conflict they create.

Phil

You should hear the cb radio repeaters here they are so bad people arguing and making threats and people driving around trying to find other people swearing and being racists. But ham radio is more strict seeing as it is licensed only network. Here you can use cb radio up to 5 watts.

+1

I think this button is ripe for abuse, but what do I know?

Possibly. But it’s also very easy for me to see who is abusing it and to permanently ban those users. So a warning to the wise: if you value your account on BLF, please don’t try to game the system.

I don’t know why there is so much fear around ‘abuse’ of this feature. It doesn’t ban anyone, it just brings SB’s attention. I think we are all agreed SB does a good job of moderating.