Subj : Re: Politics
To   : Al
From : Avon
Date : Sun May 15 2022 11:45 am

On 13 May 2022 at 08:35p, Al pondered and said...
 
 Al> >> I agree. Political discussions often devolve into name calling and
 Al> >> ranting, or worse.
 Al> > It seems to me that's a vote for the echo but only in that it helps to
 Al> > contain what many consider is unwanted behaviour here in fsxNet
 Al> 
 Al> Yes, maybe not a politics are but perhaps a "What's New / World Events"
 Al> area.
 Al> I hope that is not an invitation to disaster and that folks can discuss
 Al> what is on their mind without name calling or ranting.
 Al> It seems likely to me that the area would need moderation. Hopefully a
 Al> friendly reminder would be enough.

I'd just replied to Dan about this also... it's rough not to discuss global stuff just because politics is involved in driving some of it. I think it's how best to frame such discussions and place any agreed online code of conduct. I guess in fsxNet terms that's the current 'values' printed on the .txt file in the infopack etc...  

I'm not sure I have the energy at present to develop such things further and/or the desire to spend more time in moderation, so the appeals of discussing the latest events in Ukraine without it turning into a pro or anti Russia vs west ideological debate with entrenched sides lobbying the equivalent of verbal grenades at each other, are somewhat diminished by such prospects.

It's interesting I just started to look at code of conduct text examples for online communities. Some of the examples are pretty thorough in what they cover off as acceptable or not. But I also think how far does an online community manager/ZC etc. need to go in that direction? Then again if we could rely on folks to be 'adult' about such things they would not be needed to be called on when transgressions occurred and someone in a mod role needed something to refer to..

The joys of it all eh?  :)

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