Star policy about culture HOT 14 CLOSED

I think we should leave the stars list as it is right now. If any messages
are problematic, they'll probably be flagged and be dealt with anyway.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Benjamin Gruenbaum <
[email protected]> wrote:

Should we enforce a policy on what messages get starred? Should context be
relevant?

Do we unstar NSFW?

Do we unstar messages containing words like "fuck" and "shit"?

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
#22.

from culture.

👍 Amaan
On Jan 31, 2016 10:14 AM, "Amaan Cheval" [email protected] wrote:

I think we should leave the stars list as it is right now. If any messages
are problematic, they'll probably be flagged and be dealt with anyway.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Benjamin Gruenbaum <
[email protected]> wrote:

Should we enforce a policy on what messages get starred? Should context
be
relevant?

Do we unstar NSFW?

Do we unstar messages containing words like "fuck" and "shit"?

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
#22.

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

from culture.

My opinion:

• MUST unpin NSFW and Spam.
• MAY unpin profanity without context or something you consider flag-bait.

I don't think we should/need to try to enforce on-topic or 'quality' beyond that.

from culture.

Luggage: unpin or unstarred?

from culture.

One day I'm going to find the person responsible for the fact I can't edit in GH's mobile UI and spit in their beer 😡

from culture.

Ohh, I don't know. I was thinking to unpin from the sidebar for general room atmosphere. I'm not sure I care as much about the stars.

from culture.

Not a fan of NSFW content being pinned really, as for stars as long as they are tagged NSFW, since they don't stay long anyway it doesn't seem like a huge deal. However NSFW content is rarely starred.

Stars are pretty organic in nature, to enforce a staring policy seems a bit over the top. We have used pretty good judgement thus far I think.

We have never had an "issue" with profanity that I can really recall, and I would find it highly hypocritical remove stars against anything with a swear word due to the fact @Zirak XHR story was pinned for so long.

from culture.

NSFW rules are pretty obvious; they don't belong in pins in general, they don't belong in the room unless tagged.

As for profanity, @loktar00's right. The room at large doesn't care about profanity.

While on-topicness isn't mandatory, and it's nice to see amusing stars once in a while, I have several times un_starred_ messages which were only relevant for the person or persons in that point in time (yes, even when I was starred).
For instance, someone answered someone else in some inane topic, it got starred for some reason. Or useless messages. I think we can count on semi-healthy judgement in these cases.

from culture.

I agree with Amaan and Zirak. Common sense.

from culture.

Common sense is the way to go.

Why should messages that are "ok" in the room itself, not be allowed to be starred?
If a message violates some rules, it usually gets removed quick enough, any way.

from culture.

NSFW material should not be pinned.

Profanity has been around forever, and it's never generated an issue with mods. Leave it. If it's offensive or flaming, it will be handled.

from culture.

Everyone is discussing pins and stars as equals, they are not equals.

We could have stricter policies for what can be pinned because those things are by ROs and could be considered more "official" in some way (out of scope for this issue).

As for stars we do a pretty good job of removing things when necessary, don't think any changes are necessary.
Unless there is an example or reason for something to be changed we should just leave it alone. If stars are ever a problem let's address it at that time.

from culture.

Pinned messages discussion at #23

from culture.

Closing this as well as #23

Use common sense when starring, ROs remove inappropriate stars when they happen.

from culture.