Actions & Consequences

Everyone is of course free to do what he or she wants.

Clearly you're posting 'on automatic', Thor.

Dear all,

After some discussion with my fellow moderators, we've come to the following Code Of Conduct.
We initially wanted to wait for Bregt to come back to ratify this, but he's way for longer than I expected, and as this situation is "festering" now for too long we're taking this step.

Note that although the moderators are in agreement, everything we write down here may well be overridden by Bregt later: he's the boss!

This code, once ratified by Bregt, should I guess be published on a central place on the site as a point of reference for everyone.

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CODE OF CONDUCT
1) Be civil (discussion, even heated discussions are fine. Strong opinions and language are fine. Personal insults are not.)
2) Be nice (cyber-bullying is as unacceptable as real life bullying)
3) Don’t be a pillock (including –but not limited to- unfounded accusations, incessant whining, harassing and generally making a nuisance of yourself)
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Transgression calls are SOLELY made by the mods, and stated in public.
A transgression call is normally not a point of discussion, but a decision.
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Standard sanctions are
1) First offense: A formal, public warning (in public, on the forum)
2) Second offense: A temporary suspension of the account
(week or month, to be decided by handling mod.
3) Third offense: permanent ban

Note: particularly evil offenses (wishing death or a life-threatening disease one anyone; open racism) should (in my opinion) be immediately met with a permanent ban.

Another note: as you can see there are no special rules to modify someone's attitude(like "if the culprit apologises, the sanction may be waived").
This is by design.
People are what they are. If they're sincerely contrite, they'll do the right thing, regardless of any sanction.
It is in our opinion pointless to try and "model" people's behaviour.
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The main reason for instituting this is, as I hope is clear, NOT to limit interaction or discussion, but to make life easire for the poor moderators who now need to decide ona case to case basis if an offense has taken place, how serious it was, what everyone concerned thinks about it, and what kind of sanction is reasonable.

With tempers flaring and different personalities involved that could easily result in unreasonable actions, and wide discrepancies between sanctions for different persons.

With this guideline, everyone, without exception, knows what the baseline is, and what to expect.

Thanks to Martijn and The Mods for taking the initiative on this and setting out these codes.

Thank you Martijn. Very much appreciated. However, I'm still on a personal protest until Justin apologizes to me either via email, PM or here publicly on this very message board. I'm disgusted that he continues to post here as if nothing has happened and that others (admitted they might not know what has transpired) continue to converse with him.

I highly doubt Justin's stubbornness will allow him to apologize so this might be the last you all hear from me on this board for a very, very long time. Looks like you won, Justin!

If any of you are interested I will continue to post on FSM, Filmtracks, Facebook and Twitter.

-Erik-

If you leaving enables Justin to "win", then why leave? Although it may require a little back-peddling on your part, why not simply shrug off his (admittedly asinine) remark? His words carry only the weight you're willing to give them. So if you leave, then yes, I suppose he really has won.

I too hope you'll reconsider.

I am very saddened by this turn of events. Justin's initial comment was inexcusable; his subsequent failure to apologise arguably even more so. So sad to lose someone like Erik from the forum.

I'll certainly miss your contributions more than I would have thought Justin valued his pride, Erik, but it looks like he's going to surprise us all there. I understand what you need to do.

+1

It seems to me an empty remark devoid of any meaning (especially considering he doesn't even know your parenting), and as such, I'm surprised by the weight it is given here. Absolutely, he shouldn't have said it, and he should have apologised, but he didn't, which means people will think less of him around here. Forcing an apology from him will not mean anything, since he didn't do it out of himself. So, that's that. Stepping away from the forum seems a punishment towards MainTitles, while it is, in fact, a quarrel between you and Justin, not anyone else.

You have your own forum? Didn't know.

I am a co-owner of a film music website in Polish (the biggest in the country, actually) and we have a forum, of which I am the "technical" admin (as in updates and whatnot).

No, no, that was somebody else who hurled a huge insult at me, I was just expressing general sympathy and understanding

cool, forgive the misunderstanding

Let's rock on! :guitar: