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Conversation started Jan 24, 2017 at 7:51.

BESW

Jan 24, 2017 07:51

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Q: If you're gonna talk Politics, you must respect those who disagree

This is sort of a follow-up to two past discussions: Toward a philosophy of Chat Does the Be Nice policy require SE users to "be nice" to people who are not SE users (e.g. public figures)? Over the past year, there's been an uptick in discussions of politics in chat. JUST LOOK AT THIS CHART! ...

Journeyman Geek

hm. Bleh. I think their hearts are mostly in the right place

ah, that was flagged. Bleh, at some point I need to talk to the mods here and try to work out how things are typically handled here.

BESW

By "here" do you mean in chat?

Journeyman Geek

@BESW this specific chat

BESW

When something's flagged in chat, everybody who's in any Stack chat at the time and has cumulatively 10k or more reputation across the Stack Exchange network gets to review it.

Journeyman Geek

On root access, we typically just let someone know they've crossed the line

In a situation like this, they sometimes get a polite yelling, and it works well enough.

Oh, I do know how chat flags work 'mechanically'

BESW

Jan 24, 2017 07:59

I flagged it because warnings haven't worked in the past, with that particular user.

Journeyman Geek

See, that's the kinda context I lack for now.

(and no, I'm not going to tell you how to be a RO or anything)

BESW

In any chat I frequent, room owner or not, I'm going to point out blatant name-calling or other clear violation of the basic be nice policies.

Journeyman Geek

Actually, kinda debating making that bit of conversation going away.

eh. I think you misunderstand my intent here ;p

BESW

After two or three repeats I'll start flagging.

@JourneymanGeek Possibly!

Journeyman Geek

→ 13 messages moved to Recycle Bin

There we are!

BESW

Jan 24, 2017 08:03

Thank you.

Journeyman Geek

So, non local mod etiquette for me - I don't typically tromp in, and tell people, especially ROs and local mods how to run the site.

I was a little slow on the flag, but I was debating the entirety of it (and made a decision)

Also I don't know you guys

Which makes it a little hard to tailor soft-moderation approaches for now

BESW

As RO I'm totally cool with the purge, but I know some folks here aren't entirely sanguine about the edge cases of room culture being overridden by Be Nice.

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, that was what I was worried about ;p

BESW

My understanding of the network stance on things is that your purge was quite righteous and by rights I probably should have been willing to do it too.