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Re: Defining some written consequences for transgressions of T&C
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Date: 
Tue, 6 Mar 2001 00:55:21 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> 
> One thing that the Discussion Group Terms & Conditions here lacks is any
> predefined list of actions to be taken if someone commits a transgression of
> the T&C.  Here is a proposal...
> 
> This is not active site policy but instead a proposal for a future update
> to the T&C...  Please comment:
> 
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> 
> First offense:  Warning by private email, requiring a response of
> acknowlegment of receipt.  Possibly also a warning publicly if the
> transgression is particularly flagrant and has upset others.
> 
> Second offense:  Suspension of news-posting privileges to the group or
> groups in question for not less than one (1) day.
> 
> Third offense:  Suspension of news-posting privileges to the group or groups
> in question for not less ten (10) days.
> 
> Fourth offense:  Suspension of news-posting privileges to the group or
> groups in question for not less than one hundred (100) days.
> 
> Fifth offense:  Suspension of news-posting privileges to the group or groups
> in question for not less than one thousand (1000) days.
> 
> and so forth.  (And I doubt there would really be any fourth, much less
> fifth or sixth, offenses.  :-)
> 
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> 
> The fuzzy parts are of course what is and what is not a transgression, and
> what group or groups to bar from if a transgression occurs -- but those are
> perennial issues we already face.  This just addresses what to do.
> 
> Naturally, there would be separate counters for separate general categories
> of transgressions (maybe these would be the numbered points in the T&C?).
> For example, if someone posted a flagrant auction flog in the .aquazone
> group for the third time, they wouldn't get banned from that group for 100
> days if they were breaking some other rule for the first time.
> 
> It's so simple.  I like it.  Do you like it?

As an evolution of the idea, how about something like an "insurance
points" system where transgressions earn you points, and time takes them
away. I would hate to see someone who was a real jerk as a kid make it
to 4th offense, and then come back a couple years later and be cruising
along as a fine upstanding contributor, then whoops, they forgot a rule,
and wham, bye bye their gone (suspending for 1000 days will almost
certainly mean that person is GONE from the community).

--
Frank Filz

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