[MonCapitan2002]

Originally Posted by JamesBannon

The reason it's bad is because it puts the onus of behavioural control on the victim, not the perpetrator. It should always be the case that the demand is on the perpertrator to modify his / her behaviour.

I understand your point here, however bear in mind that this forum was designed from the outset to be largely unmoderated. The way the was designed was to leave the moderation of content largely to the members using the ignore features. These tools were made so extensive that the ignore features I see here can't be found anywhere else.

Here you can ignore a specific users avatar or signature. You can ignore specific threads. You used to be able to ignore specific posts as well (a feature we need to get back, by the way). The forum was designed in such a way that minimal moderation would be needed since members would be given tools to completely ignore objectionable posters if they so wished.

If the were designed to be more heavily moderated then you would have a stronger case here. I am sure that if this forum were designed with more extensive moderation in mind, then some of the more objectionable members here would have been expunged long ago. However, if that were to happen, the would lose one of its most identifying traits. The only other lightly moderated board I know of is the RPGFan message boards, but its content is too narrowly focused and membership too small to be as much fun.