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Community Guidelines Too Strict?

Posted by Aldereteca • 3/29/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: agit8er, community guidelines, humor, offensive

I posted a discussion earlier today, and while it became a little defensive, there was no profanity or even inappropriate language. All demeaning comments were for the most part comical, and the two major sparrers (myself and a fellow named Agit8er) agreed to disagree in a private exchange. Why? Because we're adults. The whole thread was deleted. Thoughts?

User Comments

3/29/09

jflower36

I'm guessing that the moderators aren't able to see intentions and want to treat everyone the same across the board. Just a guess.

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3/29/09

MadameX

"all demeaning comments" provides a clue.

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1. 3/29/09
  
  Aldereteca
  
  Yeah, I've read the guidelines. The question was asking if they were too strict.
3/29/09

jackpayne

That's like asking, if a piano player is a pianist, why isn't a race car driver a racist?

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3/29/09

Stillthinking

I actually think the guidelines are too lax.

I get annoyed by all the religious and political threads on the main discussion board. And recently, there has been an uptick in sexually oriented discussion threads.

Really people, this is BC not Yahoo.

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1. 3/30/09
  
  timethief
  
  @stillthinking
  I agree with you.
3/29/09

wagerwitch

I think whoever owns the place can make their own rules and asking if they are too strict about their own rules - is akin to saying you want to run the place.

LOL!

It's all good tho.

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3/30/09

jefftompkins71

I think they should run the site however they wish. The only thing I would like to see is more deleting of threads with clear cases where the person stopped in to drop links to their own site.

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3/30/09

Aldereteca

I second, jefftompkins

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1. 3/30/09
  
  timethief
  
  Blog Catalog is not designed to drive traffic to blogs. It is designed to drive readers to blogs and that means targeted traffic, as opposed to a flood of one hit wonders that cause a high bounce rate. All links on this forum are "no-follow" (ie. the links have no Google juice), and IMO the Read Before Posting community rules do provide clarity when it comes to posting links.
  www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/read-before-posting-1
  www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/no-link-dropping-at-the-end-of-posts-in-d...
  
  (1) If it is clear to Admin that the only reason you are posting a link into either the OP of a thread you created or into a comment in any forum thread is just to get click throughs to your blog then your link will be deleted.
  
  (2) All threads posted to the forums must be aimed at initiating discussion (see 1)
  
  (3) All link only threads will be subject to deletion by Admin (see 1)
  
  (4) All links posted into any forum thread must be relevant to the topic of discussion in a thread. We are allowed to include a link to a post located on our own site or on another site in the OP of a thread we create, or in a comment we post into a forum discussion thread, if and only if, the link is to information that directly relates to the subject matter in the thread. (see 1)
  
  (5) All link exchanges must take place in groups and not in forum threads. (see 1)
  
  (6) We are NOT allowed to drop a signature link to our own blog into each comment we make in a discussion thread. (see 1)
  
  (7) We are NOT allowed to resurrect old forum threads solely for the purpose of dropping our own blog link(s) AKA "signature links" into them. (see 1)
  
  Why link dropping is not in your best interest at BC
  We can click any username here and arrive on a BC profile page (that counts for a BC view stat for the applicable member).
  We can then find the blog url on that BC profile page and click it (that counts for a BC hit stat for the applicable member).
  Those stats are included in the algorithm used to determine our BC blog rank. And our blogs are positioned in both the BC Directory and on the BC tag pages to display in accord with our BC blog rank.
  www.blogcatalog.com/help/
  scroll down to: What do the Blog Stats mean?
  
  So every time you inappropriately drop your blog link into an OP when you create a thread, or into a comment on the BC forum threads, and another member chooses to click the link and go directly to your blog you are losing potential "BC blog rank juice".
3/30/09

Aldereteca

Yeah like I said, I agree with that part.

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