My takeaway from your post is that you don't like the emoji feature because it does not align with your ideas of what is good for the climate of the site. Fair enough.
But according to the poll, you are in the minority. 80% of the forum's users who answered the poll want to keep the emoji feature.
If the feature is kept, then it has to be allowed to fulfill its purpose.
Also, some are making this a lot more complicated than it needs to be.
The site doesn't need any special "emoji rules". If someone is acting like an asshole, that isn't a problem with the forum's features. It's a problem with the behavior of one or more users. The forum already has rules to help moderators address those types of situations and behaviors (if they choose to do so).
Personally, I wouldn't waste too much time trying to chase down who is posting "negative" emojis on who's threads - it's just such an insignificant issue and would be a huge waste of time and effort. Rather, if two users are acting in a way that is detrimental to the forum, I'd tell them both to knock it the hell off or be banned. Most of us are adults here, who has time to babysit people who want to act like children?
Here's another idea. If someone wants to make himself look like an asshole by posting the dreaded "rolls eyes" emoji on someone else's posts... who really cares? Just ignore it. Trolls tend to go away when they know their goal of pissing you off isn't working. Or complain to a moderator (which you can already do without special "emoji rules") and let them decide how they want to handle it.
The best way to ensure a positive climate is to enforce the rules of the forum. The mods here do a good job of that, so the climate here is actually really good, and I don't see that changing. I don't think the emoji feature is going to impact the overall climate here at all, either bad or good.
But according to the poll, you are in the minority. 80% of the forum's users who answered the poll want to keep the emoji feature.
If the feature is kept, then it has to be allowed to fulfill its purpose.
Also, some are making this a lot more complicated than it needs to be.
The site doesn't need any special "emoji rules". If someone is acting like an asshole, that isn't a problem with the forum's features. It's a problem with the behavior of one or more users. The forum already has rules to help moderators address those types of situations and behaviors (if they choose to do so).
Personally, I wouldn't waste too much time trying to chase down who is posting "negative" emojis on who's threads - it's just such an insignificant issue and would be a huge waste of time and effort. Rather, if two users are acting in a way that is detrimental to the forum, I'd tell them both to knock it the hell off or be banned. Most of us are adults here, who has time to babysit people who want to act like children?
Here's another idea. If someone wants to make himself look like an asshole by posting the dreaded "rolls eyes" emoji on someone else's posts... who really cares? Just ignore it. Trolls tend to go away when they know their goal of pissing you off isn't working. Or complain to a moderator (which you can already do without special "emoji rules") and let them decide how they want to handle it.
The best way to ensure a positive climate is to enforce the rules of the forum. The mods here do a good job of that, so the climate here is actually really good, and I don't see that changing. I don't think the emoji feature is going to impact the overall climate here at all, either bad or good.
It's about nuance. It's not about negative opinions as much as it's about a negative mindset
The negativity police used to be, ultimately, Myrthos, just as whatever rules Taluntain wishes to enforce, if any, would make taluntain the whatever that is police.
The codex has an overriding 'mindset' to it's site that "That game you like, it's shit", and that bleeds into the site itself, so that most threads are, essentially, just bitch threads and rabid fans, with most of the general talk bored by the noise.
So threads there are very difficult to keep track of as the majority of them regularly break down into just plain insult-fests and people competing to see who can shit on something the hardest.
It's not that 'negativity' is to be warned against, it's more about watching out for people who use the negativity as trolling tool, lest threads become useless flame wars between the usual trolls and their targets, the rabid fans.
Myrthos kept quite a tight reign on this kind of thing, and as a result barely any moderating needed to occur, as everyone had a pretty good idea of where to draw the line - everything is a line drawing exercise - there's no such thing as a binary no negativity or all negativity (even on the codex, people who are just 'too much' get removed eventually).
As for negative emojis, of course a little negative emoji here or there doesn't matter. The point is that the site has functioned for 20 odd years without them, and the reason it did so was because it didn't match the 'vision' for the site. The mindset. And, exactly as predicted, the second they were implemented, someone started trolling with them.
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