Space to talk

[pyraxis]

Apologies if I'm out of line here, but I just wanted to create an initial space for people to discuss policy, in an attempt to get debates moved off multiplicity and here into the place that's meant for it. There seem to be a lot of conversations happening on individual journals and it would be good to bring them together.

- Pyraxis

Comments

[hushpiper.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope nobody minds this, but I'd rather not have to sort through all the random excess that made its way into the thread above, so I'm going to go ahead and re-start this one.

The question: Triggers are a common problem within the multiplicity community, and they often can pop up without warning. A turn of phrase within a comment; a picture; the mention of a name. We can't always predict what will set us off, that's simply human nature. How, then, should the community at large deal with a situation in which someone is hurt and triggered and lashing out?

Some views have already been put forward in the comments above; feel free to reference and compare. It's a complicated issue and I'm very much interested in finding out what others think.

[pyraxis]

Sounds good to me. Actually I was thinking of starting a new post. Would you mind copying this there?

- Pyraxis

[hushpiper.livejournal.com]

Not at all! Post away. :)

[liedownlovely.livejournal.com]

Same for us!

[pyraxis]

Done. :)

- Pyraxis

[liedownlovely.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the new thread.

jimnightmare and us were discussing creating a community specifically for system members who needed practice communicating and learning how to be part of the community at large. Our questions were how to maintain it (keep it from becoming one of the million dead plural comms), and another question - how do you mod a community for people who have trouble communicating? How would you draw the line on "practicing" talking and being outright mean?

[myorp.livejournal.com]

see my comment above about possibly adding a message-board that would maybe be associated with the community for discussions that would in some way have a separate rules-set depending on the topic.

i may start a new thread about this idea tomorrow, as in thinking about it there are a whole lot of issues and reasons why it probably hasn't been done, but also a bunch of reasons why it might be beneficial. maybe there's some way of solving them, via software or setting up different lj comms or something else that i can't think of, but right now it's too late and we need to sleep badly.

~kat