Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 18:00:55 06/09/99
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On June 09, 1999 at 15:19:23, Mark Ryan wrote: >Question: Let's say there is a member who is angry because his post was >deleted. He decides to get revenge by posting frequent protests and trolls. He >does not break the guidelines about profanity, insults, or topicality, but he is >clearly intent on weighing down you and the club. How would you deal with this? This is known as causing trouble. It is possible to take any strictly defined rule system and skirt the edges in order to break the spirit of the rules and not the letter. There are any number of ways to cause trouble like this. Someone can post in CCC, "I think person A is a really smart guy", copy this post to r.g.c.c., and put a big "NOT!" at the end of it. Someone can spout a great mass of invective against person A in r.g.c.c., then repeatedly ask questions of person A in here, using a sweetly flattering tone, in an effort to get them to react to what they said in r.g.c.c. These are goofy situations, but they illustrate the situation where someone clearly violates the charter without actually violating the letter of the charter. There are an infinite number of these hypothetical situations, and a few actual ones. Am I going to be a slave to legalism, and let some lunatic wreck this place by taking advantage of the fact that the charter was written by people who aren't constitutional philosophers? No. If someone is clearly intent upon causing trouble, and this would be obvious to any reasonable reader of this group, specific action is taken to curb their activities. Rest assured that a lot of consideration would be given to cases like this. bruce
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