11-22-2008, 08:38 PM
This is not a user that's terribly invested in this forum. Probably won't be back to see any of these responses.
Nevertheless, I think the line should be drawn around intent-- did the poster intend to do "damage" to the resource/community in some way.
Of course you would look at the whole picture (posting history) before making a determination . . . in this case it's pretty clear that no harm was intended (I'll note that I love Chicago and don't like seeing idle musings about its destruction for the sake of entertainment either).
On the other hand, we seem to be pretty tolerant of users who do seem to have a primary goal of doing damage to this resource by wanting to turn this board into a place where the order of the day is bitter fighting, and those who don't enjoy that sort of thing stop reading and posting.
Nevertheless, I think the line should be drawn around intent-- did the poster intend to do "damage" to the resource/community in some way.
Of course you would look at the whole picture (posting history) before making a determination . . . in this case it's pretty clear that no harm was intended (I'll note that I love Chicago and don't like seeing idle musings about its destruction for the sake of entertainment either).
On the other hand, we seem to be pretty tolerant of users who do seem to have a primary goal of doing damage to this resource by wanting to turn this board into a place where the order of the day is bitter fighting, and those who don't enjoy that sort of thing stop reading and posting.