There have been a lot of good thoughts in this thread. After reading through them, I have some of my own for Joe and the rest of you to consider.
What kind of posts do we want here? Civil discussion of substantive issues where people share information and their analysis of it with each other.
What kind of posts do we not want here? Everything else.
That includes:
- Foul language and personal insults.
- Complaining about foul language and personal insults.
- Criticism of the moderation except in the thread designated for that purpose.
- Trolling.
- Accusations of trolling.
- Criticism of other posters instead of their ideas.
- Complaints about being criticized personally.
- Emojis or one-liners that add nothing to the discussion.
- Complaints about emojis or one-liners that add nothing to the discussion.
- Whining about how horrible the PSF is.
- Calling out people for their whining.
Let's stop
all of that stuff. In other words, please don't engage in bad behavior, and also, please don't play board cop when you see others engaging in bad behavior. Report it if it's egregious. Whether you report it or not, don't respond to it. Don't call it out. That's what causes all the pointless bickering. Just ignore it and move on. If you can't ignore it by exercising self-restraint, then ignore it by using Invision's ignore feature. I think moderators should start giving generous suspensions both to the people who troll and to the people who accuse others of trolling; to the people who get personal and to those who complain about it; to the people who post nothing but a laughing emoji and to the people who call it out.
Also, while you yourself should probably ignore a number of specific posters, you should not tell others to ignore specific posters.