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If you see a post that you believe might violate the rules, report it. You are absolutely free (indeed encouraged) to engage with the post even after reporting it and "solve" the issue as well. That has zero real impact on what if any actions the staff might choose to take in resolving your...

The UA issue was a year plus ago and dealt with at the time. As for Bacle calling you a Nazi; Bacle has received a grand total of 8 reports in the past 13 months. None of them were made by you and none of them involved claims of people being a Nazi (or anything close to it). So if he did call...

No, not even close. Seriously, for all but like five or six posters they aren't likely to notice anything at all being different.

If you take issue with an infraction given to you, go to the Appeals forum and Appeal it. If you take issue with a rule on TS or think that one should be modified then make a thread in Questions, Comments, and Concerns articulating your position. This thread isn't the place for either appeals or...

@Shipmaster Sane got booted from this thread for trolling with a bad taste "joke" in a post with zero positive content and that could have easily been construed as a personal attack on another user and harassment of said user. If we thought he was being remotely serious, he probably would have...

... The only person who even got temp banned (not the extent of the punishment) over this was @Urabrask Revealed and that was for his moderately detailed plan for killing British cops. A few others have gotten whacked with varying lengths of politics subforum bans. But seriously, it's not like...

Look, we don't conceal moderator actions, make the entire appeals process public, and allow a full and frank discussion of the rules, how they are enforced, and how the staff behave. It's been more than a year since we started this place, what have we (the staff) done to give anyone the...

No, not even remotely relevant. If any of us cared overmuch about accounts on SB or SV then we most likely wouldn't be TS mods.

Our definition of civility is much more along the lines of "would grandma wash your mouth out with soap" and "would your parent's be offended to introduce you as their child at a work dinner". We don't care about the content of posts (with a handful of exceptions), we care about the tone being...

And @Shipmaster Sane was very useful in providing an example for elucidation. His post was exactly the kind of generalized thing that will be getting hit in future. When you go to post ask yourself the following questions: 1) Is this post at least broadly on-topic for this thread? If no, look...

Civility people. This is a "serious" topic and his response to being told that slurs aren't acceptable is to go and (joking or not) call another poster Hitler. How does that contribute to a civil discussion? Yes. I am fully aware that he was joking. That doesn't change the fact that his joke...

We don't give a damn about "hate speech" as a concept. Nor about what other environments allow and expect. What we do care about is the environment that we set out to create and maintain. Think of TS as being invited to Thanksgiving at your grandmother's with the whole extended family. You can...

We aren't interested in allowing the hecklers veto to gain favor. If you need homophobic slurs to make your point then perhaps you should rephrase. And if you think it a grand idea to defend the use of homophobic slurs under the header of "thin skin" then perhaps you should reassess your own...

Now if people could actually report content that is generally detrimental to civil engagement.... If you see a post or posts that turn you off from engaging with a thread simply because either the antics of the poster or the sheer idiocy of their posts make a civil and productive response more...