Taking action against profanity, racial slurs, offensive terms? Is there any system involved?

[Treehrtsme]

I've read through the forums policy on family friendly content, but whem the forum mentions they will take action against people in certain situations it seems like a very vague way to state things. If I listed all the profanity racial slurs, offensive terms targeting people with disabilities, pretty much everything I'm sure I would be banned. Over the years I've started to save this kind of stuff just to see how bad it's been getting and it's not good. Are there temporary bans, permanent bans, loss of privileges, etc. Any sort of action that modd will take? Naturally I don't take kindly to some of these comments and prefer to return them with sarcasm so I would consider myself guilty of jumping loopholes. Genuine question though. Also at a certain point do you just essentially gain impunity based on your contributions or maybe how much money you're paying the forum? As a basic supporter if I were to dump my collection of unjustified language hostility illegal activity etc I'm sure I'm sure this thread would disappear very fast.Perhaps I didn't search in the right place but when I searched the word ban only three threads came up and none of them seem to be due to anything serious or were just mistakes. Naturally I'm not a moderator and don't have a say over what's okay or not or how the rules should work but the report button just seems to be a formality to me. Are there actually set rules in place? I suppose this would be a question for the mods

 

[Doctorgori]

Guilty here also, as I’ve often typed something in reply then wondered about whom or how old the recipient was: we can’t assume everyone is a thick skinned adult…

But OTOH folks do use “PC” as a manipulative tool and can trump up any perceived response as “offensive” …
I get it but it’s complicated: apparently what you can say and get a “pass” on might be determined by DNA a or zip code or even Grammy award…

Forum moderation is more “art” than rules/process

 

[eliaslikesfish]

It’s the internet, people are going to be rude, slur, etc… I use this technique where I read and then keep scrolling, no one gets upset and my day goes on. Works great.

also, you can’t even use profanity on this forum, it automatically corrects it to a family friendly word or erases it completely.

I also feel some healthy arguments in this hobby are okay, I’ve learned a lot from people arguing their points of view!

 

[ryanjohn1]

In all seriousness. I’ve been a member for 4 years and never seen any of what you are talking about. You can not even see a curse word even if you type it. But I also don’t look for whatever your saying is happening.

 

[ryanjohn1]

In my experience this is a site with the nicest most helpful people in our hobby. If you wanna see the other side of it hop on fb or ig and you can see real nasty comments.

 

[eliaslikesfish]

In my experience this is a site with the nicest most helpful people in our hobby. If you wanna see the other side of it hop on fb or ig and you can see real nasty comments.

facts^^

 

[ryanjohn1]

And you say over the years you’ve been saving pictures of it. Correct. However you’ve only been a member for 1 year and 2 months. Just saying.

 

[eliaslikesfish]

And you say over the years you’ve been saving pictures of it. Correct. However you’ve only been a member for 1 year and 2 months. Just saying.

oooooohhhhhhhhhhh

nice catch

didn’t even think to ask where the pics are at

 

[ryanjohn1]

oooooohhhhhhhhhhh

nice catch

didn’t even think to ask where the pics are at

Don’t care if there are pictures. Just pointing out something I noticed. I’ll say it again. You can’t even curse here. And reading text lacks the subtlety of an actual conversation where you also are seeing a person’s expression while saying something. I’m not saying people haven’t said something mean or whatever. But I’ve never seen it and I spend quite a bit of time every day here. So

 

[Outlaw Corals]

I haven’t seen any of what you are talking about i haven’t seen any of that on here, but last month they were cracking down on the use of the laughing emoji because someone got upset that someone used a laugh emoji on their post, facts !!!

 

[eliaslikesfish]

I haven’t seen any of what you are talking about i haven’t seen any of that on here, but last month they were cracking down on the use of the laughing emoji because someone got upset that someone used a laugh emoji on their post, facts !!!

dang, some people be wayyyy too sensitive

edit: deleted my laughing emoji at the end so ***laughing emoji insert***