Forum Rules amendment?

[Bananna]

Can we have a way to put certain rude visitors who persist in divisive and rude speach into a permanent moderated status for all their posts?

I'm not sure where we are at with all our polls and rules for MJ, but...

Certain people do not control their written speach and just cause long debates off topic in the most unedifying way.

Can we get a poll?

Should MJ moderate each post of non members before posting it to forum.

Should 5 to ten test posts be moderated untill a nonMJ member is able to have full unmoderated posts?

Should All non members be allowed to post freely untill continual disreguard of forum rules votes them into moderated status.

Should all non members be allowed to post freely till Moderators have given them 5 warnings, and them put them on temporary moderated status?

Should all non Memebers have a mentor that receives a copy of all their posts?

Well that is all the ways I can think of putting it.

Bananna

[muffler dragon]

I'm confused as to why posts cannot simply be deleted/changed when infractions occur. If someone is going on and on, then there shouldn't be any problem with deleting their posts. Is there?

I know that having my words deleted time and again would create a desire for me to leave or stop posting the same junk.

[simchat_torah]

haha, that's why I left for months (years?) on end, lol.

[Bananna]

Well hopefully that will not happen without a consensus.

That is why I would like a voting system. Presently rules transistioning. I don't like people being gagged, but I do think some people just cannot be taught to self moderate their posts. I think Pride causes some people to feel they are right and therefore may judge anyone. However God is judge over his servants. Those who tempt God too much are liable to end up swallowed up in the ground, but Moses knowing that he was right let HaShem fight for him.

If people truly have a living God they worship and obey, surely that God is able to defend them?

You all remember the fish joke right?

Three men went fishing after hours of no nibbles, they pray to God, or Lord please send me a fish for my dinner.

The first guy gets a large trout and Praises God.
The Second guy gets a larger fish.
The third mand Catches a fish twice as large as the other to put together. Soon as he has it off the hook he tosses it back in and starts fishing again.

When the other two ask him why he through back such a wonderful catch, the last man replies,
"You call that a big fish? Your God is too small".

I think too many people claim to be religious and yet they think of their God as a small and defenseless God.


We need rules to help keep things running smoothly, not to gag the oposition, but to teach them what it means to be respectful of others and their beliefs.

People who are hurtful really are loosing the battle, because they will convert no one. "The wrath of Man, worketh not the righteousness of God."

bananna

[Henaynei]

this level of moderation is likely more intense than our current complement of mods could successfully facilitate ... it is a pretty good idea but it seems to me that it is exceedingly man-hour intensive .....

[Bananna]

I suppose but then again since their posts will wait between someone having time, the more dumb stuff they post the more they wait to get anything posted.

Well it was just a thought.

Vote them to moderated status then, would at least make it not fun here for them.

Bananna

[ChavaK]

I'm confused as to why posts cannot simply be deleted/changed when infractions occur.

I agree- let people post freely, and if they break
the rules, delete their posts/threads and PM them
about possible future infractions...