Posting in Censored Environment

Those days are far in the past and lack relevance for a few years now.
Freshen your game please. Originally Posted by Whispers

Thanks for clearing up temporal space of the fine dining you provided. I never keep up on your itinerary.

Admitting you did it is relevant. Be it a decade ago or this afternoon. Shows you have the propensity to do it again. That is something to freshen peoples memories.

Carry on.

First Question (feel free to join in)

Is there some test or standard for what constitutes "unprovoked rudeness to others" or "unnecessary rudeness" or is this being left up to the personal opinions of staff across the country?

Since the guideline still contains the "unprovoked" term there must be acceptable cases of a member being rude to another member. Originally Posted by Whispers

I think this was adequately addressed in the recent post in the Forum Guidelines thread:

The following is not permitted on the site:

Insulting Others
Targeting other members for attacks
Harassing other members, groups of members, class of members, etc
Disrespecting other members on the site
General rudeness toward other members on the site
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The moderators have recently been given a directive from Site Admins to enforce these particular guidelines strongly and consistently across the board, anywhere it may exist. The key word is ANYWHERE. Any forum, public or private. If someone insults you to your face or behind your back they have still insulted you and that is that.
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We have always intended this site to be a place everyone can come and participate, any gender, all walks of life, to seek and receive information pertaining to their search for fun and successful encounters.

Question #2 In reference to a thread posted long before the new standards that has been removed from view to the trash bin.

ECCIE, as it has existed for many years before now, is a fantastic example of uncensored content regarding prostitution and the people that engage on both sides of the transaction.

That has not evolved without a lot of heated debate and insults being hurled as "sensibilities" were offended. Originally Posted by Whispers

As you state, one of the guiding tenets of ECCIE has always been that we don't delete content from the site. The decision to remove those two threads was not taken lightly and was done with the full knowledge and consent of the site admins.

The environment has changed and hate speech, bullying, and harassment will no longer be tolerated on the site.

I know it involves more work, but to preserve the content...
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You delete the posts that bumped the thread and then lock it so it falls back in place as a historical item. Originally Posted by Whispers

If future situations warrant it, we can do it that way but the decision to edit or remove such a thread will be made on a case-by-case basis.

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