Hunting wrote: January 31st, 2021, 12:13 am
BokaBB wrote: January 30th, 2021, 3:25 pm
Hunting wrote: January 30th, 2021, 1:44 pmTry to change your mindset and fit into this community more. We respect every contributor, but your stuff, once published, are part of the community.
This concrete subforum IS NOT.
I already well fit here...
@dvgrn: ^ Look, another example of BokaBB refusing to communicate.
It's not a good example at all, though. Disagreement with your opinion does not constitute "failure to communicate".
Now, as far as control over posts published on the forums, I do agree with you more than with BokaBB here. Trying too hard to control what other people post on a Sandbox thread is more or less a waste of time. However, it's not actually against the rules to start a Sandbox thread with a particular purpose, and try to set some ground rules for other people to follow.
Then it's everyone's job to, first,
be polite, and second, decide whether they want to follow those ground rules or not. If for some strange reason they don't want to follow the rules but still want to post on the thread (in Conway's name,
why?!?) then they should be prepared to abide by the consequences, which may include the creator or the thread complaining about their failure to follow the rules.
With a little practice, all of this be done without anyone calling anyone any names, getting terribly upset, or reporting each others' posts to the moderators, who would really rather be doing something else besides settling silly squabbles in the Sandbox.
Hunting wrote: January 31st, 2021, 12:13 amAs far as I know, many forum members consider you to be from annoying to unacceptable...
@Hunting, please think about this carefully. What you've just said about BokaBB applies equally well to you and your own past behavior on these forums. Nobody is running popularity contests here, but it can definitely be said that "many forum members" would really like you to continue to improve your ability to communicate
politely with other forum members whose behavior you find annoying. "When you're banned we will celebrate" is a terribly rude thing to say to anyone who is making a good-faith effort to participate in the community.
MathAndCode suggested a much more sensible response to Sandbox threads that you don't like:
MathAndCode wrote: January 28th, 2021, 2:01 pmI will no longer bother posting in this thread after this post...
Hunting wrote: January 30th, 2021, 1:36 amI supported BokaBB when he was a new rulegolfer, but I've had enough of these bullying and ownership mindset. As described by MathAndCode, BokaBB's "joke threads" accurately describes his mindset and (in my opinion) does not belong to this forum.
I hope this is polite enough; But I'm following wwei23's footprints if this community continues to worsen and/or become more homophobic. I hope not.
That message was mostly polite enough, though my general impression is that the term "bullying" could more appropriately be applied to your attempts to control BokaBB, than to BokaBB's attempts to control you. Here again, I'm really hoping to avoid wasting hours reading all of these huge piles of irrelevant Sandbox posts, in order to make a totally fair judgment about which of you is "right". It seems perfectly possible that neither of you is "right".
I do definitely agree that some of this thread's content is pretty questionable. Threats to "kill" or "destroy" people are generally in very poor taste, at best. I mean, obviously this is a "joke thread", but is it really necessary to tell
these jokes?
However, nobody has reported any of these posts as offensive. If that happened, I'd probably just lock the thread and suggest that everyone find something else to do.
I'm not clear on the meaning of your reference to the forums continuing to "worsen and/or become more homophobic". If you see that happening, please report the relevant posts. That definitely
would be something that moderators should be addressing!