Message to all about harassing others

**Corky** · #1 05-20-2003, 04:36 PM

It has come to my attention that many paying INA members are being abused in the forums. Please do not nit pick or abuse others. No personal attacks. Certain "comedians" are causing others to be uncofortable and causing them to leave the forums. Please let's concentrate on the one goal we all have and that is the joy of nude recreation.

I have instructed other monitors of these forums to delete posts that contain personal attacks right as they arrive. Or even block the user.

We are considering making the forums open only to paying INA members or setting up two forums, one for all, one for INA members only. We will wait and see.

We only want the best for everyone involved and strive to have the best place online to exchange ideas about nudism and so all of us can keep in touch and talk about nudism, plan events, and so on.

Thank you!

Corky Stanton
INA Staff
559-683-2388

**Corky** · #2 05-20-2003, 04:36 PM

It has come to my attention that many paying INA members are being abused in the forums. Please do not nit pick or abuse others. No personal attacks. Certain "comedians" are causing others to be uncofortable and causing them to leave the forums. Please let's concentrate on the one goal we all have and that is the joy of nude recreation.

I have instructed other monitors of these forums to delete posts that contain personal attacks right as they arrive. Or even block the user.

We are considering making the forums open only to paying INA members or setting up two forums, one for all, one for INA members only. We will wait and see.

We only want the best for everyone involved and strive to have the best place online to exchange ideas about nudism and so all of us can keep in touch and talk about nudism, plan events, and so on.

Thank you!

Corky Stanton
INA Staff
559-683-2388

Snoboy · #3 05-20-2003, 05:18 PM

That is an excellent suggestion. I hope you go forward with the changes soon.

#4 05-20-2003, 11:09 PM

I fully agree with deleting any and all personal attacks. There is NO excuse for rudeness. I am no longer a paying INA member because the only thing I can't get into are the photos, and they're not something I want to pay to see.

If non-paying people are banned from the forum, then that leaves me out, but I'm sure there are those who won't care one way or the other if I'm not there. Most of what is posted is so boring that I don't read it anyway. I enjoy the forum because it gives me something to do in my spare time. Since I'm retired, I have a LOT of spare time.

#5 05-21-2003, 12:43 AM

Let me rephrase something. There is no excuse for rudeness unless you're dealing with someone who won't take "No" for an answer. Unfortunately, sometimes you HAVE to be rude to people who keep at you after you've politely said "No". I was referring to people who are just naturally rude for no good reason when kindness would work perfectly well. There's not enough kindness in the world.

Gary Naturist · #6 05-21-2003, 04:58 AM

In addition to deleting posts, you might want to consider suspending people after repeated offenses and eventually expelling them.

Re forums for paying members only: you would lose your casual visitors including many who are not yet involved in nudism but are curious and have questions. Would be a shame.

Gary

tarsus · #7 05-21-2003, 08:51 AM

everyone
i agree some of the stuff is nothing short of attacks. i love comedy and would do almost anything for five minutes with leno. i am not a paying member but have considered it so i can see
the newscast on this site.lets lighten up we are here by choice.we are guests on this site and should act the part, paying or non paying.

Snoboy · #8 05-21-2003, 10:09 AM

Bartamus, Gary Naturist has a good point. I agree with him that losing the non-paying members would be unfortunate because for some of them, it is a way to learn about our lifestyle and experience nudism for theirselves. I just don't want to see repeated attacks of individuals within the forum any longer. There is no good reason that I know of that justifies hurting people. As for me, I love people of all ages, cultures and lifestyles and believe in lifting the hearts of people. There is more than enough negative input in our lives without having it in here as well. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

CalgaryMark · #9 05-21-2003, 02:55 PM

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Re forums for paying members only: you would lose your casual visitors including many who are not yet involved in nudism but are curious and have questions. Would be a shame.

Gary [/QB]

I agree with Gary; I have been a reader and 'learner' here for a long time, and registered to post only recently. I don't post much as most of it has been said by others, and I have precious little experience to draw on. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth (keyboard?) and remove all doubt".

I do agree that restraint is needed by posters - after all, this is like shouting in the market place, all can hear/read what is being said. Corky, If censorship is needed, I suggest just deleting the attacks and inserting a (deleted by admin.) remark, so all can see who is doing it, but not what was said or written, leaving the rest of the text for all to see.

There are also the off-topic threads, and these can be used for letting off steam.

I would insert a plea to all, to stick with the theme of naturism or nudism in the rest of the board. Of the several boards I look at, this is by far the most lively and informative, and I appreciate that. Congratulations to INA for what you have created.

CalgaryMark.

**Corky** · #10 05-21-2003, 03:32 PM

Thank you CalgaryMark!
We will keep the forums open to all and monitor it heavily and block any offenders.
Have fun!
Corky