Inability to tolerate anotherās opinion is exactly what will ruin your own ability to speak.
AAAaaaaand so Iāve shifted to permanent lurker status.
and i wanted to post a review about my AceBeam K70, Yamaha Smax, etc. ive got a million things iād like to show someone, to post here and reviewā¦ maybe you could learn something? probably too rude for someone iām sure
Edit to add: also, i marked this rude just in case someone else forgets to.
I havenāt commented on the Rude change as I feel neutral about it. Seems like a good idea. I would prefer if it Rude didnāt erase posts. Someone may post something some of us would really want to know, but others may hide it from us because they donāt want others to know it. Like Spam button, I would prefer if the button pushes were published. I just think with any type of power comes responsibility. So if someone is going to push a button, they should have a valid reason and be willing to justify it. I feel more strongly about Spam though because it can hide a whole thread and ban the targeted member.
A couple members had told me they had been auto banned like I was by the Spam button. I remember RaceR86 was one of them. I donāt recall the other. I agree it isnāt typical though.
Once it happened to me and I was aware of it, I did notice a small group of members that would pick on a new member from time to time. The taunting posts would result in the new member eventually posting something that could be conscrewed as against the rules and then they would get auto banned by Spam button clicks. The beauty of it was that the thread would disappear. So no member and no trail. I saw it happen a couple times during the night when activity was pretty low. That was why I raised so much hell about it back then. Since then, it appears that abusive spamming has stopped. At least I hope so. Iām not on much these days to really know.
I think many of you are taking this whole thing too seriously.
1. If you have a high rude score, nobody else will know but you (and SB)
2. If you have a high rude score, look at those posts and see if you broke some rules or were actually rude.
3. If you did break rules/were rude, clean up your act!
4. If you feel you were totally in line and the Rude! marks were unwarranted, donāt sweat it! If you really were rude, sb will message you. If you really werenāt rude and the people who marked you as such are abusing the feature, sb will contact them.
Well, no. You just have to follow sbās rules. Read the rules if you need to, 90% of the forum already follow the rules 90% of the time, including you glenn. You broke a couple rules in a post, recognized it, and deleted the post. Done. Perfect. Thatās the point.
I know buddy. Iām only human, and sometimes I get a bit emotional about certain topics which I wonāt mention. Iāll do my best to avoid anything controversial from now on.
As was already mentioned, itās already been possible to misuse the spam button with the same intentions, with the added risk of an automated account ban. It just hasnāt been a major problem thus far. (The case where a long-time respected member was temporarily banned was used to refine the system so that canāt happen any more, in the case of the spam button.) So far, almost all of the āRude!ā button clicks seem legitimate (apart from users testing it), used on posts that really did have the potential to or already were sparking arguments. The majority of the flagged posts still remain visible, and there is no evidence of manipulation.
With that being said, just as has always been the case with the spam button, any attempts to manipulate or āgameā the system are easily traceable and will very likely result in a permanent ban.
And one other detail: Please donāt use the āRude!ā button on obvious spam posts. Instead, only use the spam button for that purpose, just as youāve always done.
sb56637: Can you put an option to hide the rude meter until it increases to a certain number? I donāt like seeing the āMy Rudeness Levelā every time I scroll down. I donāt intend to be rude, controversial, or attack anyone at a personal level, so I donāt need the constant presence of a rude meter to remind me (or nag me) to not be rude.
A lot of worries have been expressed, but Iām not really worried about the rude button. It lets people know when they may have gone too far, in case that matters to them. And it lets Sb see more easily where problems most likely are, by letting the community vote on what is a problem. So, as usual, BLFās problems will be dealt with ā only more efficiently and with more community input, and people automatically get warned first.
It seems better than the alternative, where Sbās daily load gets bigger and bigger and heās expected to make decisions without much input from others.
Some interesting hypothetical problems have been brought up, but I prefer to prioritize issues which are actually happening over ones which arenāt.
This is a big one for me. I donāt give other users moderator permissions here because itās extremely hard for a moderator to be objective and fair 100% of the time. And as a matter of fact I donāt even entirely trust myself as a good moderator. Certain people and certain issues personally rub me the wrong way, and there are others that I would tend to view with much more leniency. But itās not all about me, and the Rudeness Level will be a huge help as a quantifiable meter that I can take into account when I inevitably have to make hard moderation decisions.