Hi all,
I wanted to address the rumors about TOS changes.
The TOS have not been changed since we last announced an update in January, 2015. The warning process has not changed as well. We continue to follow the five warning process prior to banning a member as has been our practice.
There has been a lot of discussion regarding what is allowed and what is not on the boards. Profanity is allowed on the boards. However, once the profanity (including gifs) is directed in a harassing, abusive or taunting manner towards another member, The Knot or the Community as a whole, then the use of profanity becomes a violation of the TOS. We will evaluate the context of any use of profanity and follow our warning system in these situations.
We are working on creating clearer guidelines for the TOS, so there are fewer questions about what will cause a warning.
Please let @KnotHolly or myself know if you have any further questions. KR
Re: Updated TOS Rumors
I have. Remember bscrazybeans?
Are we just supposed to blow smoke and kiss ass now? Is that what y'all are looking for?
I'm still not at all clear on how a sig gif can be a response to a "certain situation". I mean mine right now says "Fuck that". I could mean this in response to any "certain situation" or to life in general. I could mean "fuck that" in regards to XO group being completely unable to hire a competent IT department or actually address issues like grown ups.
Also...it seems some people (who work for TK) have trouble with what "trolling" actually is. What is XO group's official definition of trolling?
And is anyone ever going to fucking fix the goddamn logging fucking issues or what? Cause ASAP apparently stands for "whenever the fuck we feel like it" with the XO group.
Oh and why was someone (Ashley) banned after receiving only one warning? Cause she questioned the absolute authority of the TK gods? We consider posting middle finger gifs across threads contributing to a negative environment. We don't expect anyone on these boards to change how they respond to cash bars or anything like that.
According to our TOS this is our definition of trolling:"Trolling" The Knot boards by posting inflammatory or off-topic messages with the intent of provoking members/disrupting normal discussion is not permitted and will lead to banning from the boards.However, this could be something we can work on making clearer in the guidelines I mentioned above.
Tech is trying to work on the login issues, unfortunately it is a larger issue than they anticipated, but they are working towards trying to fix it.
Ashley received all five warnings. Please feel free to let her know she can reach out to us at messgeboards@theknot.com if she would like us to resend them to her.
******* Oh, of COURSE the boxes are fucked up. *******
OK, so then please explain how a bunch of mods posting polar bear gifs (which, obviously, aren't inflammatory in and of themselves but are absolutely "off-topic") in what is clearly an attempt to derail a thread and provoke another member isn't trolling, according to the mods in that thread? It seems like a pretty clear abuse of power that the mods are using inside jokes to gang up on members, no matter how seemingly innocuous the actual content of the image. For all the talk of the "mean girls" like Ashley, I'd like to know why the exact same behavior from mods is overlooked.