Quote:
|
Originally Posted by ziadel
He described to me his experience getting shot for christs sakes.
|
LOL, oh yeah! I'd forgotten about that.
To uber and all moderators, supermods, admins, and the owner:
I hope you don't have the impression that anyone expects perfection. I'm not even sure what that would look like. We expect that you'll try to do your best, and I've never seen anyone do less. We may not always agree on what's best, I suppose, but that hardly means there is anyone to blame if someone thinks a mistake has been made.
Speaking briefly to the specific case of the shoutbox:
I'm for all intents and purposes an adult. I eat salad, I read magazines before painting my house and decorating, and I own books without pictures. I'm also pretty silly, though. I don't necessarily think that packing up my legos means that I can't be a goofball from time to time. As a matter of fact, if I'm not at work (or even sometimes at work), I'm usually goofy. It's my nature. I suspect it's in the nature of a lot of people on TFP. If I'm talking about how much I love farting in the chat box, I would hope that wouldn't keep someone from clicking on Tilted Knowledge. I know it would only serve to make me feel comfortable if I were visiting. Yes, some people judge a book by its cover... but the people in the chat box are all members, and they're almost always very active members, so isn't that judgment reasonable? I mean I don't just see fun and silliness in nonsense or humor. I see it anywhere from General Discussion to Sexuality to even Politics.
I guess my question would be this: if you were chatting with friends and someone asked you to be serious, would you feel welcome? This isn't asked to be a piss ant to anyone who may have come to the decision to shut down the chat, I just want to make sure that we take everyone's impressions on such a thing.
How about this? TFP has plenty of time tested rules and regulations. If people break those, then the moderation staff is responsible for doing what they can to make the situation right. I don't remember anything at all saying that the chatbox can't be silly, and TFP has silliness in all sections, of course, so what is this really about? If the staff or whoever makes the decisions wanted people to know that the chatbox was not to be used to be goofy, maybe you should let people know.