Daniel · 10 answers · 4y

Where would you put the threshold for a ban on retrospring? Are insults already too much or should only stuff like death threats lead to a ban?

There should be zero tolerance for death threats or any kind of harassment. If two people are joking or arguing or whatever and they insult each other then who cares

I think encountering people who rub you the wrong way online is to be expected and shouldn't be made a huge deal of if it's a one-off. It's only when the interactions border on harassment that the line is crossed imo.

as an ex-mod, a big part of it was how people would respond to insults etc. I'm personally someone with a "hostile" manner of interaction with certain close friends, so I understand that kind of communication to an extent, but if someone clearly got uncomfortable in the situation, that's where I'd draw the line.

If anyone told me that they wanted to kill me, I'd probably say: "Me too! Let's kill me."

I don't care about insults. I can easily ignore them. I can joke about online death threats but I think it'd be better if users are discouraged to use them in a serious conversation. [You think?! Wow Arman! You must be a genius!]

What can we do here but try and hurt with words? Not that it is lame to hurt with words. And it can be done by accident or misunderstanding or inapt knowledge of language? So, I would implement a high threshold. And deaththreats are very common these days. And they almost always come from your next of kin.

There's a difference between "insults" and "harrassment with intent in escalating it" to where you start seeing death threats. Were you getting death threats?

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