[Gregness]

Hey, so, look at the General Discussion forum living up to its description!

So, just some isolated thoughts on the whole situation (if not the incident in particular).

Liz tends to get extremely worked up about certain topics. (frankly, she needs a thicker skin)

This passion tends to lead her to be very abrasive.

For my part, it seems like a solid fraction of the posters here walk on eggshells around her to avoid arguing with her.

She seems like a nice enough person, but none of that makes for healthy communication and, by extension, healthy communities.

Now, for Snake's suggestions (and I did read the whole thing), it's probably unreasonable to expect that much to change, and I don't even think I want it to. In fact, one of my favorite things about this place is that it's a little rough around the edges. We can curse and heckle and be raunchy with each other in good fun and most of us know where the line is. It feels like a bunch of college buddies hanging out. In my mind, there's not really a need for an ironclad set of rules.

What we might benefit from is that any time someone is up for a permanent ban, we open a thread in the forum related stuff section discussing the evidence at hand (offending posts, number of repeat offenses, etc.) and let the community weigh in on it. The final decision is still up to the mod team, but this way if, for example, we all thought Liz's contributions outweighed her occasional (extreme) jerkitude, we can have a place to say so.