| You know the old saying about being part of the solution? I'd like to be, because I think it matters to all of us.
With the exclusion of trolls I think often the problem is with interpretation of rules. I'm not saying this because of SR, it's rules or any particular problem recently. I think that rules are only the begining is well demonstarted by law which in the uk begins with legislation but that in turn is refined through case law (I think the US is similar?). Each case or trial is about both the persons actions and whether those actions did indeed break the law, the law evolves through that process of discussion and becomes more clearly understood in terms of examples. This process I think has come about because differences in interpretation of rules is nothing new.
I suppose for me the best of debate is to stay focussed on the discussion rather than become sidelined into motives and personal judgement - I've been to often wrong on that score! For me that is the crux of where I'd like to be, the focus on subject rather than on motivation and personality.
This is not my forum, I'm actually quite fond of the rules here. Perhaps where they are broken it is simpler to make a clear decision, explain why and deal individually where people incist on repeatingingly breaking the rules - just as clearly. In that way we can all benefit from a deepening understanding of how they will be applied which makes our choices accordingly less error prone.
I think it is more helpful to offer to look to where things may have been misunderstood or interpretted differently. Maybe try to clarify, maybe deal individually with people and only last of all see the problem as a result of a single place when evidently it occurs in more than one place.
Just to be clear - anything said here is in terms of offering what I can to a solution, the decidions will always remain SR's not mine and that doesn't make me angry in the slightest. |