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Sometimes it is hard to report (which post are you going to report? All of them?) when it someone starts out as an instigator and the discussion hasn't yet taken the turn for the worse until it's a little too late. I highly doubt the people who are involved will report each other since they love spewing vitriol at each other and some bystanders either don't care (avoid the thread), like to see the battle go on even though it might be some stupid argument or maybe hope the people who are arguing will stop at some point.

There's a comment section on reports for a reason. Say "This thread is out of control" and someone will look at it and decide what the course of action is.

I'm sometimes hesitant to report posts. Part of it is that I don't want to seem like an overactive, compulsive scold. The other part I'm often not sure if something is really violating the rules or represents a problem. I could see an argument for being willing to report anything that seems potentially problematical and letting the moderators sort out whether it or or not, but I can see problems with that. The first being that such an activist approach could end up flooding the reports with a petty nothings that don't merit action, which could be a distraction from real problems and make the moderators a little cynical about my reports. The second is that if only a few people who aren't a representative sample of the membership take an activist approach, it might create biases in moderator activity driven by the biases of the people reporting, which could create some annoying behavioral distortions and hurt moderator credibility.

I also have smaller things that I'm not sure about, such as how much I should write in post reports, I try to be pretty succinct, and whether its appropriate for me to report posts in a thread that I'm neither active nor invested in, but happen to notice some troublesome behavior in.

I've probably overthought this some, but I feel like the basic, underlying uncertain has some merit, so I've been a little circumspect about reporting posts.

I'm sometimes hesitant to report posts. Part of it is that I don't want to seem like an overactive, compulsive scold. The other part I'm often not sure if something is really violating the rules or represents a problem. I could see an argument for being willing to report anything that seems potentially problematical and letting the moderators sort out whether it or or not...

Just popping in for a second here for some ANN mod/admin appreciation. I've said this before and I'll say it again: I've been a member of several different discussion forums over the years (none of which were anime-related) and I have to say that ANN is hands down the best run discussion board I've ever come across. One of the things that stands out for me is that I never get the sense - as I have at other boards - that the mod/admins here are power-tripping. At other boards, you could sense the palpable glee when some of the mods/admins went about their business. I don't get that feeling here and it's much appreciated.

TL;DR, I feel it's always better to over-report than under-report, and, honestly, if you are getting too annoying with reporting, the mods can always PM you and ask you to stop.

Zac wrote:

Fencedude5609 wrote: Zac wrote: Going to start handing out bans pretty liberally if you people can't keep it civil. You going to start with the slut-shaming rape apologist? Yep. In fact he's already gone.

Thank you. And that should end that line of discussion.

You may not be familiar with the term 'slut-shaming' but it is in fact used by people who advocate sex-positive social change. It is not a slur or an insult.

If you didn't mean it that way, OK, but it came across that way.

Zac wrote:

You may not be familiar with the term 'slut-shaming' but it is in fact used by people who advocate sex-positive social change. It is not a slur or an insult.

I was not aware of that, as I come from an era where "slut" isn't used in a positive manner. I've updated my outdated lexicon.

"Slut-shaming", when I see it, is generally used with the implication that "all women [who dress in anything other than a muumuu] are sluts, and therefore they are 'asking for' anything that happens to them" (the part in [] may or may not be included in the definition, depends on who's putting down women).

Dessa wrote:

"Slut-shaming", when I see it, is generally used with the implication that "all women [who dress in anything other than a muumuu] are sluts, and therefore they are 'asking for' anything that happens to them" (the part in [] may or may not be included in the definition, depends on who's putting down women).

Having done some reading on the term, I despise it even more. I won't make it an issue, but to me, the idiotic use of it comes off as no different than calling some black people the n word because they don't take offense to it. Rarely does minority thinking give way to majority prejudice.

Let's see someone call a girl who enjoys sex a "slut" and see how long it takes before they're eating their own teeth.

The word is a derogatory and there's much more to it than a woman who sleeps around.

I'm sure there are girls out there who take pride in the word by definition, but without realizing it, they're classifying themselves with a label.

I guess I'm just too damned old because when I was growing up, I was taught it was bad to label people.

Times do, indeed, change.