Posted by Zo on April 26, 2003, at 0:13:54
In reply to A Collection of Moderating Guidelines, posted by Zo on April 25, 2003, at 23:19:43
Then there is the more extreme action: booting someone off of the system.
In the six years I was at the WELL, we did this only three times. At The Gate, in three years, we have done it twice. I feel booting should be limited almost solely to deep and repeated harassment by one person to
another. However, in each of these cases, the boot wasn't permanent.When the person agrees to shape up, they can re-enter.
Rather than treating it like being exiled from a country, never to return, it is more like being told to step outside of the saloon until you cool down. Because the point isn't to get rid of people. The point is to try to make
it so everyone wants to stay and talk.Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community
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