Giulia wrote:
Thanks for the response, Mark. Perhaps the "Prohibited Word List" should be disseminated to all current and future members, just so they know that commonly used words like h3ll and f@nny need to be changed to Hades and butt. I'm joking, of course. Sort of. I've been on this site since it's inception and haven't ever witnessed a great deal of profanity. Once in a while, sure. But I thought that's what "report abuse" (in part) was for. Anyway, golly gee I hope your move goes smoothly.
Prohibited Word List will be provided to all members as soon as POTUS... Or the local bank manager gives the codes to the vault... The Prohibited word list contains more than just profanity. It also contains quite a few derogatory slurs.
I agree that there hasn't frequently been issues but before we moved there was a fair amount of content that was posted in prior to the move to Jive that contained personal attacks and resulted in some unfortunate drama. I did also remove a fair amount of very off-color comments directed towards spammers that do not represent the views of the Truth Initiative or the EX Community as a whole.
After I joined, the number of off-color comments has been dramatically reduced and the number of drama situations has also reduced. One of my roles here is to police the community as impartially as possible. Having the "report abuse" button is helpful with Jive but it's not used as frequently as I would like it to be. Sometimes things aren't marked as abuse that should be and have resulted in unnecessary uncivil public arguments. If I don't know about them and the content remains posted on the site that is indirectly endorsement of the comment. As time goes on, there may be less need for the naughty word list. Only time will tell.
Mark
EX Community Manager
EX Community Admin Team
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