The following is a plea to all members of the Escapist who wish to see it stay one of the best places on the internet.
We all enjoy posting on this website, that's why we're here and why we come here so often. The sense of community is fantastic and the people here great. It's why we enjoy commenting on so many different topics and put so much effort into this site.
But: Recently the attitudes shown by some people on this site have changed. As a community, we've been showing more hostility towards new members who make mistakes such as repeat threads or hit enter too early resulting in (no text), resulting in a more negative feeling around the site as a whole.
I posted my concerns in another thread, the link to which is this [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.93856?page=1] if anyone is interested. The feedback, especially from the more experienced members of the community, was overwhelmingly in consensus of the view that we were becoming harsher as a community and had been slowly going downhill. Many also wished that something could be done about it, but talking about it is no good if there is no action taken.
Hence this thread; This thread throws open the floor to you, my fellow members of the Escapist community to discuss how we can better ourselves as a community. The ultimate idea would be to produce a set of community guidelines, similar to those in place by the moderators (available here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.84120]) but ones that are community enforced, for indiscretions that are non-punishable by the moderators but still detract from the community as a whole.
Examples of such indiscretions could include the aforementioned hostility towards mistakes, repeated use of poor grammar (such as paragraphing, capitalisation etc) and spamming too many threads in too short a timeframe. However, as a community people would be able to show lots more points that are non-punishable by moderators but still detrimental to the community as a whole.
In replying to this post, please consider the following ideas;
1 WHAT actions do you believe have a detrimental effect on the community yet cannot be overseen by moderators?
2 HOW, as a community, would we go about responding to such indiscretions? How should we act when someone does not do something in the spirit of the Escapist community?
3 ARE there any other points you would care the mention on this topic?
If this thread gains enough support, from the community and moderators alike the goal would be to set up a committee to decide which actions should be frowned upon as a community and how we would go about enforcing those rules. The committee members are at the moment undecided, but would most likely be made up of senior members and/or those who volunteer their time and services to improving the Escapist as a whole.
Remember; this thread is about improving the online community we all enjoy so we can continue to enjoy it and enforce our own set of moral guidelines for all to abide by.
Please, help us improve this fantastic website so we can all continue to enjoy it as we have been.
We all enjoy posting on this website, that's why we're here and why we come here so often. The sense of community is fantastic and the people here great. It's why we enjoy commenting on so many different topics and put so much effort into this site.
But: Recently the attitudes shown by some people on this site have changed. As a community, we've been showing more hostility towards new members who make mistakes such as repeat threads or hit enter too early resulting in (no text), resulting in a more negative feeling around the site as a whole.
I posted my concerns in another thread, the link to which is this [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.93856?page=1] if anyone is interested. The feedback, especially from the more experienced members of the community, was overwhelmingly in consensus of the view that we were becoming harsher as a community and had been slowly going downhill. Many also wished that something could be done about it, but talking about it is no good if there is no action taken.
Hence this thread; This thread throws open the floor to you, my fellow members of the Escapist community to discuss how we can better ourselves as a community. The ultimate idea would be to produce a set of community guidelines, similar to those in place by the moderators (available here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.84120]) but ones that are community enforced, for indiscretions that are non-punishable by the moderators but still detract from the community as a whole.
Examples of such indiscretions could include the aforementioned hostility towards mistakes, repeated use of poor grammar (such as paragraphing, capitalisation etc) and spamming too many threads in too short a timeframe. However, as a community people would be able to show lots more points that are non-punishable by moderators but still detrimental to the community as a whole.
In replying to this post, please consider the following ideas;
1 WHAT actions do you believe have a detrimental effect on the community yet cannot be overseen by moderators?
2 HOW, as a community, would we go about responding to such indiscretions? How should we act when someone does not do something in the spirit of the Escapist community?
3 ARE there any other points you would care the mention on this topic?
If this thread gains enough support, from the community and moderators alike the goal would be to set up a committee to decide which actions should be frowned upon as a community and how we would go about enforcing those rules. The committee members are at the moment undecided, but would most likely be made up of senior members and/or those who volunteer their time and services to improving the Escapist as a whole.
Remember; this thread is about improving the online community we all enjoy so we can continue to enjoy it and enforce our own set of moral guidelines for all to abide by.
Please, help us improve this fantastic website so we can all continue to enjoy it as we have been.
