The Ghost group was fun, it contained a mixture of users from my Renegade/Cerberus gang the "Blood Brotherhood" and others.

Who keeps reporting every other post for no good reason? Why?

Is it because it 'offends' them?
These people choose to be offended about simple harmless words, its not everyone else's fault. They choose to react negatively to everything they disagree with, instead of ignoring it or finding something positive in it. Its about how you react, not what other people say.

If just a bunch of words on a stupid internet forum from people you don't even know, offend you, then holy shit do I have news for you, nobody is going to bend over like this for you in real life.

If choosing to not get 'offended' at every single thing that people say is trolling, then sure, guess I'm a troll as well.

I think y'all need to chill the fuck out. Big time.

LMAO that's dumb. "Trolling" and "gracefully" are two words that don't go together in one sentence, unless the word "not" is added between them.

Agreed, at some point you gotta stop and look at who exactly keeps reporting almost every other post. If it's the same people reporting everything almost every single time, it's clear that their abuse of the report system is the actual issue rather than what nonsensically gets reported.

I have been saying this for weeks now. When we dealt with the first round of issues, my argument was exactly this. Check the logs. 

As an officially declared waste of oxygen le ebin trolle, I think the rules are fine in theory. It just hinges on the amount of faith we place in the likes of Vroom and Liam, since moderator discretion plays a large part in determining what's okay and not okay.

I don't think from a practical sense too much changes. It's a little pre-emptive rather than reactive. As Liam stated, the changes were already in effect since the maintenance and no one seemed to notice until this announcement.

I also suspect having clearer ground rules means it discourages some of us here to stop sending exaggerated reports that deal with grey areas. With the way Vroom talks about receiving reports compared to how little disciplinary action has been actually taken, there's probably people abusing/spamming the report system due to the unclear nature of the prior rules.

I think there's a tendency to be mean amongst some of the users here, even when there's no real purpose or benefit to doing so. This is a small community that needs to grow in order to be sustainable. It's why I'm happy to have my kid gloves on as opposed to posting as if I were on some anonymous imageboard.

At the same time, I really haven't seen anything on here that's all that bad. The worst I've seen have been the personal spats between some of the users. In general, I tend to think that offense is taken, not given. Being offended over something is always a reaction, not something that's pushed upon someone. And in this case, we are talking about words on an internet forum. Simply put, people's skins are far too thin if they take offense to the things they see here that don't already break the rules.

In general, people's skins are too thin. The idea of having "words or things that can't be spoken because they're too offensive" never appeals to me. But then I'm an Australian. We fling shit at one another all the time under the idea that words are harmless, it's the context and intent which matters.

And it never occurred to you that maybe, just maybe, the people spamming that report button 69 fucking times in just 1 month, are the problem themselves?

What war? I'm not aware of waging any wars on this board. Care to elaborate on that one?