Censoship coming soon to a Tribe.net near you
This was sent from tribe.net to tribe moderators (note the automatic totalitarian deletion of content based on arbitrary definition of "offensive." absolute fucking bullshit. hope that language doesn't offend anybody):
Coming Soon: Mature policy changes, and Community Flagging
I've already started a thread on Tribe Ideas about this, but thought it was worth posting here as well.
We're going to be making some changes shortly to our mature policy, the TOU, and introducing a new feature for Community Flagging. These changes should happen around the 12/20 time frame.
Community Flagging is going to allow users to flag content they think is offensive, or prohibited by terms of use, and those items will ultimately be removed automatically from the site. This will replace the current mature system altogether.
In addition, the TOU is being updated to prohibit content which "portrays obscenity, pornography, or sexually explicit conduct."
Again, why are we doing this?
1. We want Tribe to be a respectful, positive environment. Some users, even with the Mature system in place, were still coming across content they found offensive.
2. The legal environment for adult content online has changed dramatically.
3. It's more tribe-like for users to decide together what content is appropriate or not. This allows us to stop marking a tribe as "mature" if it has a single risque photo in it, etc.
What does this mean to you specifically as a Tribe moderator? It's going to give you help in deciding what content is appropriate for your tribe.
Comments? Questions? Let's discuss this now before the changes actually roll.
Thread here:
moderators.tribe.net/thread/...0b18990d
This was sent from tribe.net to tribe moderators (note the automatic totalitarian deletion of content based on arbitrary definition of "offensive." absolute fucking bullshit. hope that language doesn't offend anybody):
Coming Soon: Mature policy changes, and Community Flagging
I've already started a thread on Tribe Ideas about this, but thought it was worth posting here as well.
We're going to be making some changes shortly to our mature policy, the TOU, and introducing a new feature for Community Flagging. These changes should happen around the 12/20 time frame.
Community Flagging is going to allow users to flag content they think is offensive, or prohibited by terms of use, and those items will ultimately be removed automatically from the site. This will replace the current mature system altogether.
In addition, the TOU is being updated to prohibit content which "portrays obscenity, pornography, or sexually explicit conduct."
Again, why are we doing this?
1. We want Tribe to be a respectful, positive environment. Some users, even with the Mature system in place, were still coming across content they found offensive.
2. The legal environment for adult content online has changed dramatically.
3. It's more tribe-like for users to decide together what content is appropriate or not. This allows us to stop marking a tribe as "mature" if it has a single risque photo in it, etc.
What does this mean to you specifically as a Tribe moderator? It's going to give you help in deciding what content is appropriate for your tribe.
Comments? Questions? Let's discuss this now before the changes actually roll.
Thread here:
moderators.tribe.net/thread/...0b18990d
