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Originally posted by sugar and spice
Let's review policy again.
Mods lock or delete threads and posts when either
(1) they find the content offensive
or
(2) enough people complain that the post is offensive
Therefore, if the threads that offend you aren't getting deleted, that means that either you're not reporting them to the moderators, or you're the only one offended.
Under this system, of course there's going to be a "heirarchy," because people aren't going to be offended by posts from their friends, and the longer you've been around GC, the more friends you make around here. Nobody's going to get offended if I say, "Kath, you're such a whore" because they know I'm kidding. If somebody who had just showed up on the boards said it, they don't know if they mean it or if they're just joking around, and that's where the problems start.
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So if a few different groups of friends here decide to complain about posts made by certain people, it's ok for their posts to be deleted and/or banned? But if one person finds one of the other posts to be flamatory or offensive, and the mod doesn't feel the same, nothing should happen? Regardless of whether or not the posts in question did in fact break GC rules/terms of agreement? So basically all your saying is that if enough people complain about person X, he/she will have something done to them. But if person X feels the same about one them, since he's the only one complaining they then get away with stuff? This has been going on for a long time.
If you want to talk about policy, read the terms of agreement and see how many here break them. From your post it seems as though you're ok with an hierarchy. I would assume you're ok with that because you're one of the people who has in the past got away with a lot of stuff. And that would be correct. A lot of people who get away with a lot of stuff have steered clear from posting in this thread, mainly non-mods.