Dogdaddy69
Esteemed Citizen of ZV
1. No spamming, Flaming, Harassing, stalking. Users with multiple reports will be receiving infractions, or a ban. Depending on severity.
At what point does spamming dozens of "female appearing" profiles become stalking? I understand that members here have the ability to delete any comment posted to their profile wall. And that generally is where any complaints about anything posted in such fashion generally ends.
Stalking is a problem here, or has been in the past. In particular, one individual that many older members reference as if he is a real life Voldemorte.
Setting that aside for the moment, does anyone else think it might be time to visit both what constitues "stalking behavior" and how that is treated in the existing rules of the site?
This, like any site that deals with sex, is a male dominated space, and one of the constant complaints here is that "there are no women" or the general lack of a female presence here in any great numbers in context to the number of males here.
To be fair, it's been my overall understanding that the more flamboyant versions of stalking behavior at least does get dealt with when it's brought to the attention of site moderation.
I have to ask though, why any member here is allowed to constantly seek out and comment on an unlimited amount of female accounts daily? I'm NOT suggesting comments on profiles should be stopped or curtailed, but I'm not the only one who thinks that commenting on 20 female accounts a day, particularly when that is more or less an account's ONLY posting on this site, is at the very least, stalking behavior. And, I for one would like to understand WHY that type of posting behavior gets a pass?
It's not targeted at any one individual but is it any less a "behavior" or a tendancy because it isn't on 1 specific person? And because it's not targeted to one member, does that make it any less creepy and unsettling to the female members of this site? What about the fact that it IS targeting one specific gender? Why doesn't that constitute a few red flags that should maybe be addressed a bit more clearly in the rules?
In past reporting of this behavior, things that have come up are posting the literal exact same message more than 4 times is a violation. But, that's spam, not stalking. Other times, what comes back by response is that users have the ability to delete any comments.
I do realize that making a rule change here is a bit of an uphill climb and that doing so will increase the work load on the moderation team, but I do think it's time someone drew out a clear line limiting what appears to me to be an increasing amount of under the radar, serial stalking of female profiles.
Thoughts?
At what point does spamming dozens of "female appearing" profiles become stalking? I understand that members here have the ability to delete any comment posted to their profile wall. And that generally is where any complaints about anything posted in such fashion generally ends.
Stalking is a problem here, or has been in the past. In particular, one individual that many older members reference as if he is a real life Voldemorte.
Setting that aside for the moment, does anyone else think it might be time to visit both what constitues "stalking behavior" and how that is treated in the existing rules of the site?
This, like any site that deals with sex, is a male dominated space, and one of the constant complaints here is that "there are no women" or the general lack of a female presence here in any great numbers in context to the number of males here.
To be fair, it's been my overall understanding that the more flamboyant versions of stalking behavior at least does get dealt with when it's brought to the attention of site moderation.
I have to ask though, why any member here is allowed to constantly seek out and comment on an unlimited amount of female accounts daily? I'm NOT suggesting comments on profiles should be stopped or curtailed, but I'm not the only one who thinks that commenting on 20 female accounts a day, particularly when that is more or less an account's ONLY posting on this site, is at the very least, stalking behavior. And, I for one would like to understand WHY that type of posting behavior gets a pass?
It's not targeted at any one individual but is it any less a "behavior" or a tendancy because it isn't on 1 specific person? And because it's not targeted to one member, does that make it any less creepy and unsettling to the female members of this site? What about the fact that it IS targeting one specific gender? Why doesn't that constitute a few red flags that should maybe be addressed a bit more clearly in the rules?
In past reporting of this behavior, things that have come up are posting the literal exact same message more than 4 times is a violation. But, that's spam, not stalking. Other times, what comes back by response is that users have the ability to delete any comments.
I do realize that making a rule change here is a bit of an uphill climb and that doing so will increase the work load on the moderation team, but I do think it's time someone drew out a clear line limiting what appears to me to be an increasing amount of under the radar, serial stalking of female profiles.
Thoughts?
