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I'm creating this poll in response to certain valid issues raised in the Rules on Emote reactions? thread. Advance disclaimer: I will be looking at the results of the poll to help me implement clear rules on the use of reactions going forward, but will not necessarily strictly follow the "winning" poll choice, especially if the results will not be hugely in favour of a single choice.
To explain the poll options a bit more as the poll fields are short and I can't put much text there:
1) Any user can use any reaction with no restrictions whatsoever
^-- This is probably self-explanatory and would mean that reactions would not be subject to any moderator action whatsoever. This means that even if someone kept targeting a single or multiple users' posts with the mildly negative "rolleyes" and "unamused" reactions that we currently provide, the only advice to the reaction recipient would be to simply put such a trolling user on ignore.
2) Recipients of too many* negative reactions from a single user have the option to request mod. action
^-- Choosing this option would mean that every user who felt that they were on the receiving end of too many of the mildly negative "rolleyes" and "unamused" reactions, would have the option to request the staff to revise their reaction history. If the staff determine that there is a pattern of a user (or users) repeatedly targeting another user's posts with negative reactions, they would instruct the reaction-giver(s) to stop negatively reacting to the affected user's posts.
What would be considered by the staff would be both the volume of negative reactions given as well as the duration over which the reactions were dished out.
*What is "too many" negative reactions is entirely subjective as some users won't be bothered even when receiving 50 negative reactions, whereas others could be very upset by the time they receive 5. The staff (preferably both mods and admins) will internally review and discuss each user on a case by case basis.
3) Remove the "rolleyes" and "unamused" reactions
^-- The "nuclear" choice of RPGWatch removing all the mildly negative reactions altogether, despite only an extremely small minority of users overusing them.
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Voting is anonymous and the poll results can't be viewed without voting, as I want to get as many clear responses as possible. Feel free to ask if anything is unclear.
To explain the poll options a bit more as the poll fields are short and I can't put much text there:
1) Any user can use any reaction with no restrictions whatsoever
^-- This is probably self-explanatory and would mean that reactions would not be subject to any moderator action whatsoever. This means that even if someone kept targeting a single or multiple users' posts with the mildly negative "rolleyes" and "unamused" reactions that we currently provide, the only advice to the reaction recipient would be to simply put such a trolling user on ignore.
2) Recipients of too many* negative reactions from a single user have the option to request mod. action
^-- Choosing this option would mean that every user who felt that they were on the receiving end of too many of the mildly negative "rolleyes" and "unamused" reactions, would have the option to request the staff to revise their reaction history. If the staff determine that there is a pattern of a user (or users) repeatedly targeting another user's posts with negative reactions, they would instruct the reaction-giver(s) to stop negatively reacting to the affected user's posts.
What would be considered by the staff would be both the volume of negative reactions given as well as the duration over which the reactions were dished out.
*What is "too many" negative reactions is entirely subjective as some users won't be bothered even when receiving 50 negative reactions, whereas others could be very upset by the time they receive 5. The staff (preferably both mods and admins) will internally review and discuss each user on a case by case basis.
3) Remove the "rolleyes" and "unamused" reactions
^-- The "nuclear" choice of RPGWatch removing all the mildly negative reactions altogether, despite only an extremely small minority of users overusing them.
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Voting is anonymous and the poll results can't be viewed without voting, as I want to get as many clear responses as possible. Feel free to ask if anything is unclear.
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