INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
For more than 26 years, readers have enabled and inspired our work, creating a community with an amazing signal-to-noise ratio
transparent for everyone.The substance of the guidelines isn't changing
Most provisions are just common-sense items meant to foster genuine discussion, such as the prohibitions against hate speech, personal
attacks, trolling, and spam
We did, however, think a few rules could be clarified and that we could explain the moderation process more clearly
To that end, we are introducing The Ars Posting Guidelines Version 3.0
(The previous version of the Guidelines is archived here for comparison purposes, but again, the substance hasn't changed.)We now outline
the moderation process more clearly because it has caused some confusion in the past
As Captain Barbossa put it in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, "The Code is more what you'd call 'guidelines' than
actual rules." Same thing here
Human judgment will always be used when it comes to interpreting infractions
We will, for instance, be much more patient with long-term members who have a history of good-faith posts but who sometimes have a bad
the well-being of our community and to foster respectful, frank, and productive discussions, with room for diverse viewpoints
Our Posting Guidelines were originally written at a time when the biggest controversies in our community were the overreach of the Recording
Industry Association of America, the OS X-fueled rebirth of Apple, and the hope-springs-eternal coming of "Linux on the desktop." But the
world has changed, to put it mildly
We hope, on some level, that a refreshed set of guidelines might encourage everyone to be a little more kind and a little less eager to
