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I'm in favor of CoC's and removing offenders from a community. I've managed an online community in the past and I'm convinced communities can't work unless ther
by JohnBooty 5y ago
I'm in favor of CoC's and removing offenders from a community. I've managed an online community in the past and I'm convinced communities can't work unless there are standards.
(For reference, we banned ~10 users out of ~20,000. Not exactly ban-happy. I also believe that overzealous enforcement has a chilling effect.)
However, deleting somebody's email account for non-email offenses is a poor choice. The "offender" may be relying on that email address as a point of contact for family, to pay bills, etc. And community standards, while necessary, are unfortunately always going to be subjective to some degree.
Considering the large number of services that depend on an email address to determine one's identity... we need something else. I don't know the answer there. I should not lose access to my ability to pay my bills just because a forum moderator doesn't like what I say.
- _pmf_ 5y agoA support forum for a commercial product is not a "community".
- duiker101 5y agoI disagree. If users can comment/contribute, and it's not just a private direct line to support, then people will start to hang out and talk and learn about each other, and that's a community, no matter the subject.
- selfhoster11 5y ago#offtopic channels attached to otherwise strictly topic-oriented chat servers can build up quite a community.
- fortran77 5y agoExactly. Take them off the forums after, say, 3 warnings. But leave their access to the service up.
- gwbas1c 5y agoI suspect that a Vivaldi email account is for conducting Vivaldi business. IE, it's assumed that you have a separate email account for personal business. The same could be said about a work email account. You shouldn't mix work and personal business.
- colpabar 5y agoWhat do you mean "vivaldi business"? It's a free, publicly available web browser, isn't it?
- lucideer 5y agoVivaldi Mail is a webmail service - it's typically marketed through the Mail feature of the Vivaldi browser https://vivaldi.com/features/mail/ https://vivaldi.com/features/mail/ It's not anything explicitly business-related.