AMAZON / AWS
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Amazon has never asked us to remove a meme. They have never asked us to remove anything actually. AWS will forward complaints to me, which I shared and showed that there is a liberal agenda to get us shut down. (Welcome to 10 years ago.) With that in mind, I asked that we more closely watch comments that are OVER THE LINE. People were posing "someone needs to rape AOC" and "we need to kill these morons" on a regular basis and THAT stuff has to go. We can't have people typing comments like that and not expect chaos. The reports our old ISP gave us were 100x more common than AWS. Right now they are not the problem in the slightest. So that misconception has got to go. The issue is not AWS, it's user stupidity and the risk it poses to the website.

ADDING CLARIFICATION: Ok so dont be offended. The stupidity is in posting THREATS to folks, even if you mean it as a joke, typing "I want to kill XYZ" is not something you should post on this site.

WHAT DO WE STOP????
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Well if you read the above, then you already know! We can't let people threaten violence/rape/death to anyone. We can't let people post hate either. And we can't let people post porn. Normal 3 big ones from day one of the CoC being written.

Examples:
"Fuck all commies" is fine.
"Terrorists should die!" is fine.
"I hope all pedos die in a fire." is fine.
"If I caught a pedo, I would kill them myself." Probably fine since it's inflection and not a threat.

"Someone should rape AOC!" NOT OK.
"Someone needs to shove a c###in AOC's mouth to shut her up!" NOT OK.
"We need to kill all these Antifa fucks." NOT OK.
"We need to sodomize Schiff." NOT OK.

So does the above clarify when it's ok to say something out of anger, where it's not hate or a threat? Remember this is stuff people are posting and it's very clear the message they are writing. If we have to use a little common sense, then do it. Some of this leads to interpretation and some does not. Some of this can't get the word swap test. You just can't equate "fuck all commies" to "fuck all (RACE)" because they aren't the same tone or approach. One is clear racism and the other is just anger towards a political group.  "Fuck all liberals" is fine too. "Fuck all hispanics" is probably not. So if it's racism, then sure, mix up the words to test it. "fuck all whites" and "fuck all blacks" are both wrong. Racism is racism.

MEMES / IMAGES
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I started another thread to be more specific about these. We HAVE to be more lenient in images because of their very nature. This is a way folks express themselves with sarcasm, irony, and humor which may not come across right to someone who is not familiar with it. So a sarcastic image may seem to be hate filled, but it' may actually be an insult to those who cry about it all the time.

Another example are the smolett memes:


And of course the Pinochet memes:


Just for fun, how about some AOC memes:


HOW DO WE TAKE ACTION
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Remove things which are clear rule breaks and anything else feel free to edit out to be safe or temp lock a thread with a simple comment "TEMP LOCK FOR STAFF/ADMIN REVIEW" so folks know we are looking at something. Temp locks, perm locks, forum bans, are all tools to use based on the severity of the action and our understanding of that action's damage. "I hate (RACE)" is a perma ban comment. Penis pics is a perma ban image. Random meme that's insulting or plays on a social issue should be ok, up for review, or a temp lock at worst so we can review.
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Let's focus on what is clear cut violations and discuss the ones which are in the gray areas. We will begin to formulate what is ARFCOM staff's acceptable and unacceptable interpretations and I hope side on allowing more memes and less comments of a dark nature. If we do this together, then we are creating and applying common acceptable standards for the site.

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will we know where the “outside pressure” previously referenced is coming from?

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Soooo... It’s Amazon.

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I read it a couple times but I am not sure if the sample memes are acceptable or not.

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It seems like there an awful lot of grey area and things left to interpretation. There's been some seriously weak warnings handed out for basically nothing. But I hear the site makes more off of me if I'm not a platinum member, so maybe that's why I get the hate?

I can completely understand limiting hate and threats, it just seems some would limit any comment they don't absolutely agree with. It kind of creates an echo chamber IMHO. But what do I know? I still wear headbands from the 80's...

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in 11 years plus of being here and spending hours a day here I have never seen anyone said  something like "some one should  R** person X"or the above examples  and it be left standing for more than a few seconds

but I'm sure Brownells will be much happier with the new push to clap down on all the violent threats to people ...

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I appreciate what you are doing, but the legaleze will eventually be the death of this site.

Liberals are masters at using rules of organizations to destroy the very organization the rules were supposed to protect.

Fuck liberals.  If you are an obvious liberal that wants to fuck with people and this site, like the underscores, they should just be removed.

Why is it libs have freedom to spout their shit in conservative areas, but we have none in liberal areas.

Fuck all the shit.  Burn it down.

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So, if I read this correctly, this would be acceptable?

https://thumbsnap.com/s/6LaItFvs.jpg