Legislate the usage of the word "troll"

[vivster]

RolStoppable said:

vivster said:
I think it's a slippery slope. I know a few people on here I could call idiots because I have definitive proof that they indeed are idiots by the ridiculous posts they are making. Should we legalize that term as well?

I think a strict law is better than a lax vague law because users will be tempted to contend the law. People will often not know why a certain user wasn't banned for a certain post and it will paint a picture of weak enforcement which is just a breeding ground for more trolling and user testing out their limits.

Would be an option to legalize the term "idiot" as well. But since people tend to get more offended by that word, we should leave it at "troll" at first.

I don't think there would be anything complicated about my suggestion.

Q: "Why wasn't user X moderated for calling user Y a "troll"?"
A: "Because user Y was moderated for trolling in the same thread."

And you really think people who don't care how an argument started and are likely to be future offenders care enough to PM a mod?

And about X is more offending than Y. That's a subjective standard you've set yourself which doesn't help your argument. For example my offending standards are that anything said on the internet directly aimed at a person or group cannot be offending because there are always 2 people in the offending game and if you let yourself be offended it's your own problem.

Sadly not everyone on this world is that open so we need strict rules to make sure everyone can grow up in a safe environment were any offending words do not exist.

The only thing this proposal will accomplish is making the work of the mods more time consuming and complicating the rules while the actual rulings in those cases will not affect the tone or the user satisfaction in a significant enough measure to warrant the change. I'm all for fairness and common sense but sadly you can't have those things in a world with so many dickheads abusing rules that are not clear cut enough.