Re: moderation of content (including junk and/or foul content) by peers, and by co-owners

Posted by Nalicter on Feb 03, 2009; 7:49am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Suggestion-language-warning-tp661558p2262107.html

Graham Perrin wrote

99% of the time I enjoy participation in fora where content never offends.

(Or, if content does offend, a person-to-person ban is quietly effective without involving owners.)

I wouldn't say this is the case with every forum. For instance, people often post song lyrics in my forum for such with foul language. A large percent of the posts are like that, and it is troublesome; I don't like having to talk with them every time about it. It's not that they're not allowed to have it in their songs that they post—I just want some kind of header with a warning about the language so that concerned people don't accidentally read it. I would actually prefer this greatly over censoring the words out (that can be annoying for people who don't swear, even: I was on a chat a while ago where it filtered Charles Dickens into Charles ----ens, and that, I would find fearfully troublesome in a forum). I know that example was a little overboard; I don't mean to suggest that the foul language count thing be that particular. It would be nice if it mentioned the frequency of use, too, perhaps.

I should also note that out of all the times I've asked people to edit their posts to make a note of the language (many times, I should note), I've only seen them actually do it once or twice, although they usually don't post the stuff again, themselves (but they don't bother with what they've already done). So, a warning message would be nice.