Hope y'all missed me. I got pinched by the mods for a joke I posted in the Politics Forum a couple months ago. It was a thread about Melania Trump's disappearance (remember when that was a thing?) and I made a joke connecting it to the pee-pee tape. Not my finest work, granted, but it was mostly a throwaway line, and it honestly never occurred to me that it was all that offensive, certainly not enough to get me banned for six weeks.
Anyway, I'm not here to relitigate the issue -- in another lifetime, I used to moderate a BBS, and I always hated it when people whined endlessly about suspensions, or created alternate accounts to get around them. Mostly, I'm just glad I have my privileges back in time for football season, which is where this forum is most valuable.
Nonetheless, I'm a little confused about what I'm supposed to take away from this experience going forward. I had emailed the mods when this first happened but never heard anything back, and I couldn't find anything about it in the Website Questions forums, so I'll throw the question out to you folks: What exactly is the standard we're supposed to follow around here? Are there posted Terms and Conditions? Is it the usual practice that you can be suspended with no previous warnings? Are there stepped up punishments for future infractions? Is any of this written down anywhere?
I generally consider myself to be pretty good at knowing where the line is when it comes to humor, but I admit, this experience has me a little wrong-footed. I like being able to joke around in my posts, but I feel like now I'll be constantly looking over my shoulder. Not only was I wrong about where the line was, but I have no idea where the new line is, or who's drawing it.
Anyway, I'm not here to relitigate the issue -- in another lifetime, I used to moderate a BBS, and I always hated it when people whined endlessly about suspensions, or created alternate accounts to get around them. Mostly, I'm just glad I have my privileges back in time for football season, which is where this forum is most valuable.
Nonetheless, I'm a little confused about what I'm supposed to take away from this experience going forward. I had emailed the mods when this first happened but never heard anything back, and I couldn't find anything about it in the Website Questions forums, so I'll throw the question out to you folks: What exactly is the standard we're supposed to follow around here? Are there posted Terms and Conditions? Is it the usual practice that you can be suspended with no previous warnings? Are there stepped up punishments for future infractions? Is any of this written down anywhere?
I generally consider myself to be pretty good at knowing where the line is when it comes to humor, but I admit, this experience has me a little wrong-footed. I like being able to joke around in my posts, but I feel like now I'll be constantly looking over my shoulder. Not only was I wrong about where the line was, but I have no idea where the new line is, or who's drawing it.