There is an small update to this policy, which can be found further in the thread or by clicking here.
In an effort to ensure SMW Central is, and remains, as LGBTQ+ friendly and all-inclusive as it should be, we're pushing forward with a zero tolerance policy and approach against expressions of homophobia, transphobia, sexism, racism, etc. Over the last few days, both arms of our site moderation teams (forum moderators and Discord moderators) have been working together to iron out this approach to ensure our moderation is consistent across both the site forums and our Discord community.
Our zero tolerance approach to this kind of behaviour means that we will be reacting faster in removing a user from our community where they are entrenched in these sorts of harmful beliefs, or expressing these kinds of beliefs in bad faith. As this is a cross-platform approach, should a user be removed from our Discord community due to this, they will also have their account disabled on the site.
This doesn't mean we're going to be disabling accounts of users who may accidentally use a slur, without realising its true harm or meaning. In these kinds of instances where this kind of behaviour is carried out due to user ignorance/misinformation, we will do our best as a moderation team to educate these users on why this kind of behaviour could be seen as harmful to others.
We hope this new approach to this kind of behaviour will be welcomed by the SMW Central community. We're here to ensure everyone feels welcome at SMW Central, regardless of their background.
With all this, Rule A3 of the SMW Central Site-Wide Rules has been updated to reflect our zero tolerance policy, and this has been noted in the Site-Wide Rules Changelog thread.
In an effort to ensure SMW Central is, and remains, as LGBTQ+ friendly and all-inclusive as it should be, we're pushing forward with a zero tolerance policy and approach against expressions of homophobia, transphobia, sexism, racism, etc. Over the last few days, both arms of our site moderation teams (forum moderators and Discord moderators) have been working together to iron out this approach to ensure our moderation is consistent across both the site forums and our Discord community.
Our zero tolerance approach to this kind of behaviour means that we will be reacting faster in removing a user from our community where they are entrenched in these sorts of harmful beliefs, or expressing these kinds of beliefs in bad faith. As this is a cross-platform approach, should a user be removed from our Discord community due to this, they will also have their account disabled on the site.
This doesn't mean we're going to be disabling accounts of users who may accidentally use a slur, without realising its true harm or meaning. In these kinds of instances where this kind of behaviour is carried out due to user ignorance/misinformation, we will do our best as a moderation team to educate these users on why this kind of behaviour could be seen as harmful to others.
We hope this new approach to this kind of behaviour will be welcomed by the SMW Central community. We're here to ensure everyone feels welcome at SMW Central, regardless of their background.
With all this, Rule A3 of the SMW Central Site-Wide Rules has been updated to reflect our zero tolerance policy, and this has been noted in the Site-Wide Rules Changelog thread.
That said, a user's past site issues would still be considered if they were to get in trouble again (with some respect to how much time has passed, of course.)
