OK, we're gettng a little annoyed here!

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

"The reason for this astounding change, is that Eric's Grandma quite spontaneously travelled to Uruguay, met a cabin boy named Rodrigues, and is currently living in sin with said cabin boy on a houseboat on the South Atlantic Ocean. Amazingly, she has no Internet connection, so we are now free of the risk of offending her most delicate eyes."

Even if it doesn't bother EN himself, I vote we not make fun of his late grandmother, even with a smilie face attached.

 

[Driddle]

I wish I had some words of wisdom to offer ... Russ and the crew. ...

(T)here is too little moderation, and ... too much ... of ... little online "pet peeves." ...

(T)hose of us who were around when 3E was in development and brand new should be ... moving on. ...

This is a very interesting time to ... rule.

These are interesting observations, Eric. A lot of insight to share, for those of us willing to read between the lines. Thank you.

 

[EricNoah]

Nah, no worries. Her spirit does live on here. And her spirit probably wouldn't mind a trip to Uruguay as long as Grandpa gets to go along.

 

[EricNoah]

The ... ar...resting o...vations, Eric... i...s to share...us ... between t...ines. Thank you.

Yeah, you wish!

 

[Driddle]

Not bad.

 

[EricNoah]

I ... k...illed ... Mo...ther ... The...ressa.

Oh my lord. That's not even funny.

 

[Kheti sa-Menik]

Stop being fair about bans. Make them public, arbitrary, and random. Just grab any somewhat uncivil person you see, temp band them, make it public you temp banned them, and don't give any justification for why they deserved it more than the other somewhat uncivil people.

This is kind of how China accomplishes the almost impossible goal of censoring the internet. Rather than come up with an official list of bad sites, they arbitrarily send people to jail. This causes all the ISPs to very diligently self-censor.

The point is if there are clear lines you can always go right up to them and play around. If there aren't, and you know you could be punished unfairly, you'll stay as far away as you can.

EDIT: I'll remove my sarcastic comment for the sake of this discussion.
I'll just raise my eyebrow in wonder.

 

[Fifth Element]

"The reason for this astounding change, is that Eric's Grandma quite spontaneously travelled to Uruguay, met a cabin boy named Rodrigues, and is currently living in sin with said cabin boy on a houseboat on the South Atlantic Ocean. Amazingly, she has no Internet connection, so we are now free of the risk of offending her most delicate eyes."

Gasp...you don't mean the Pundit, do you? If she's easily offended I think she'd be better off avoiding him...

 

[Epic Meepo]

Here's a random brainstorm of possible solutions. I haven't taken the time to consider which, if any, would actually help anything; they're mainly just wild shots in the dark.

1) Except in extreme cases, permanently ban people from specific threads instead of temp banning them from the entire site.

2) Add a Snark forum. Let people be blatantly snarky there. Move threads that get too snarky there instead of locking them outright. However, what happens in the Snark forum stays in the Snark forum.

3) Limit each account to X number of reports allowed per week. That way, people will only report things that are really egregious instead of complaining about every little thing.

4) When someone reports a post they don't like, ask them as part of the reporting process if they would like to Ignore further posts from the same poster. Make "Yes" the default answer.

5) Make a list of ENWorld's most-Ignored posters publicly available. Allow people to add everyone on that list to their own Ignore list with the click of a button.

6) Allow posters who start threads to make those threads invisible to people on their Ignore lists.

7) Remove the Quote buttons from posts made by chronic trolls so people are slightly less inclined to respond to them.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

2) Add a Snark forum.

Circvs Maximvs?