For an unambiguously racist reference to President Barack Obama as a “silver back.” Libertad is a frequent pusher of the lines of appropriate behavior, although it could be argued he is more effective at persuading others to disagree with him. Although we are tolerant of diverse viewpoints, vigorous debate, and judiciously-employed strong language, we must enforce minimal standards of conduct for the sake of our broader community.
Libertad’s Colorado Pols account will be restored Friday.
We allow vigorous debate at Colorado Pols, and as a site that caters to adults interested in politics, we allow the judicious use of strong language. In the last 24 hours, MichaelEllis has let loose with a tirade of pointless flaming. These exchanges go well beyond reasonable standards of debate, and do not seem to have a purpose other than petty antagonism of other users. This detracts from the experience of everyone who visits our site.
For these infractions, MichaelEllis sentenced to two days in the Pols Penalty Box. MichaelEllis’ Colorado Pols account will be restored Saturday morning.
Although we are tolerant of diverse points of view and vigorous debate, we cannot allow our forums to be used to hurl discriminatory insults at other readers. This detracts from the experience of everyone who visits our site.
Mark G.’s Colorado Pols account will be restored at the end of the day Friday.
UPDATE: Time served, Libertad is released from the Penalty Box.
For an unusually offensive and off-topic string of nonsense about somebody’s non-blogger wife. As always, we encourage readers to not be gratuitously insulting to one another when there are far more interesting things to talk about anyway.
Libertad’s Colorado Pols account will be restored on Monday morning.
It’s time for a cooling-off period in flamewars with other readers. We also cannot allow users to repeatedly inquire about the identity of other anonymous readers of our blog.
UPDATE: Time served, sxp151 is released from the Penalty Box.
It’s time for a cooling-off period in these continuous flamewars with other users. Let’s keep things minimally on the topics at hand going forward.
UPDATE: Stay extended to 5 days due to attempted sockpuppet comments during suspension period.
For posting an off-topic and disruptive video in today’s polling thread.
We’ve set up the Penalty Box to provide a location for users of the political blog Colorado Pols who commit violations of our terms of use or general posting policies. Users who break certain rules at Colorado Pols — violations not rising to the level of a ban — will be suspended for a period of time (usually a couple of days). During that suspension period, the user will be unable to write comments or diary entries at Colorado Pols and will become a “guest” of the Colorado Pols Penalty Box.
Each “guest” of the Penalty Box will receive their login information by email, and will have a thread posted to commemorate their suspension. In the case of multiple simultaneous suspensions (i.e. flamewar cooling-off period), we may create one thread for all parties at our discretion. Either way, only suspended users may comment in the Penalty Box–and only while they are suspended.
Think of the Colorado Pols Penalty Box as something of a virtual “time out” room. Colorado Pols rule-breakers can spend their suspension period essentially sitting in here by themselves. They can comment on their suspension, or on Colorado politics in general, but there will be nobody here to respond to them. At the end of any suspension period, the user’s account will be re-activated at Colorado Pols and simultaneously deactivated here.
Couldn’t we just suspend users who break the rules at Colorado Pols and not temporarily banish them to a separate site like this? Sure we could, but this seemed like a lot more fun.
