mod 135639 Report post Posted May 25, 2015 I gave someone a warning for posting negative comments about a lady, they replied by PM with the following (I removed the persons name to keep them anonymous). Dear Mod,My comment, which you viewed as negative, was posted because someone on craigslist was warning about the young lady and her pimp. She reportedly would take the money, leave the room and then her pimp would come in and demand more cash. Guess I should've posted it under the warnings section. My Reply to this person... No! Not at all! This would be hearsay, do you believe everything you read on cl? If this was first handed experience (and you were a seasoned member here) I would allow the info to be put into the warnings section but whats to say that this is not her competition or someone trying to cause her problems? By doing this your just helping a bad person spread rumors! Don't spread rumors! especially those that you do not have any first hand experience to confirm. The internet is so anonymous, it makes it easy to exploit/abuse. I don't know if your being honest when posting negative comments or malicious and trying to discredit someone so here on this site we do not say negative things. PERIOD Anyone who does not agree with this policy I tell to go find another discussion site that is more fitting for them to call home. This community was and will continue to be built on POSITIVE comments and people! It shocks me that people still tell me we are doing things wrong by not allowing negative comments here. This site has been running for a LONG time now and has a good community who embraces that core rule. New members continue to join and try to tell me that this is not the way we should do things. Some even go as far as saying they have some sort of right of freedom of speech to say what they want here in our members only website.... i politely tell them to go review the laws and when they educate themselves come back and apologize for the ignorance. Some stats to share and prove our policies work... Cerb/Lyla Purges some old posts each year (a few thousand) but currently we have 525,041 posts We have over 55,600 registered members We have over 9400 members who post and contribute (Active Members) On average we have 1100 people on the site at ANY given time We have OVER 60000 unique visitors a month to the site We have OVER 200000 visits to the site per month On average the site serves 190GB of data per month! ... and that accounts for over 15 MILLION hits! Being positive, being nice to people, focusing on the good! ... IT WORKS! 32 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grass_Hopper 18263 Report post Posted November 19, 2015 Everything that starts with: -could; -would; -may; -I heard; -maybe; -might be; -... shouldn't be taken accountable. Especially on websites such as CL or BP... 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
