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> any service provider needs to have some discretion on these things Of course, but that's not the issue under discussion. The issue under discussion is the c
by throw10920 5y ago
> any service provider needs to have some discretion on these things
Of course, but that's not the issue under discussion.
The issue under discussion is the combination between (a) how vague these things are (b) the extremely wide range of badness (don't tell me that "self-promotion" falls into the same category as "spam/scams") and (c) the fact that your email account can be locked if you violate these rules on the forum.
It's one thing to claim that you're closing someone's forum account because they were harassing someone on it, and another to close their email account. That's not protecting your forum, that's trying to give yourself the ability to legally retaliate against someone for anything that they did that you don't like.
- coffeecat 5y ago> don't tell me that "self-promotion" falls into the same category as "spam/scams" The issue with humans, is that whatever policy you come up with, there's going to be someone who reads the policy and skirts just around the edges. For example, they could say "no unsolicited marketing" and "no impersonation", which seems like a reasonable enough policy. But then you can imagine a user who habitually responds to support question on the forum with: "Great question, I can figure that out for you, email me at paid.consulting@vivaldi.com for a quote." It's not unsolicited per se, and not impersonation per se, but I can see why Vivaldi would want the discretion to ban this hypothetical user and disable his email address.