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Sunday, November 15, 2009

WTF: WTF UW will not post personal attacks at members of the UW community. Please abide by this rule when submitting content to the site.

14 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 15, 2009 at 12:29 PM

    I doubt any one person can be responsible the way you are making it sound. Cool off, he has a tough job and I'm sure he's not deliberately trying to piss anyone off. And personal attacks like 'nobody likes you' makes your arguments against him seem very immature.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 15, 2009 at 1:16 PM

    Did anyone read that article in Imprint this week about people thinking it's ok to say stupid things just because it's anonymous? I didn't agree with it for OMG UW, but after following WTF UW I think we're letting this get out of hand. It used to be about silly or trivial annoyances, not personal attacks. There has to be some filtering to protect people's feelings especially when the comments posted are completely unfounded and jerkish.

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  3. Floral WraithNovember 15, 2009 at 2:00 PM

    Except our dear FEDS president is in the public sphere of influence. Anyone who presents themselves to the public sphere is fair game.

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  4. AnonymousNovember 15, 2009 at 2:17 PM

    @2:
    No shit. Haven't you ever seen /b/? There's no way things can keep going smoothly anonymously

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  5. WTF UWNovember 15, 2009 at 2:23 PM

    So nobody misses this:

    This is an issue we have been discussing internally since the start. We do not like personal attacks on our site either. They do not represent the UW community well.

    It certainly makes sense to filter out names when we receive WTFs, but the line becomes blurred when the person is in a very visible public position and is well known to all students. Using the previous WTF as an example, everyone already knows who the FEDS president is. That's part of his job. So that raises the issue of how we can protect people in these sorts of positions without completely censoring the posts we receive. This is where the grey area starts.

    Please leave your suggestions in the comments and we will make changes based on how the majority feels the site should be run.

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  6. AnonymousNovember 15, 2009 at 2:44 PM

    I agree that people in the sphere of public influence are fair game for direct criticism. But there is a line between criticism and straight insults. I'm not the biggest fan of Allan myself, but I would never personally insult someone like that in a public setting such as this. I would criticize his leadership skills and his effectivness as Feds Pres, but personal attacks are a little bit much.

    Hopefully you Mods will agree with my point.

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  7. AnonymousNovember 15, 2009 at 2:48 PM

    In all fact, people do like Babor. I think he can live with that as he was voted into office

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  8. AnonymousNovember 15, 2009 at 2:56 PM

    I'm not down with personal attacks either but with stupid shit like "stfu nobody likes you" it's not hard to just brush your shoulders off and ignore it. The thing about anonymity is that without a person behind all the stuff on here, it's all just words. Rise above, y'all.

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  9. AnonymousNovember 15, 2009 at 5:59 PM

    WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ALLAN?!
    I LOVE HIM

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  10. AnonymousNovember 15, 2009 at 6:46 PM

    I LOVE ALLAN TOO!

    but no one can compare to the one and only JONAH LEVINE : )

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  11. AnonymousNovember 15, 2009 at 9:24 PM

    this is more of a personal attack, which i do not think should be posted here (since I would be insulted if I was allan), compared to a criticism which i think should be allowed.

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  12. WTF UWNovember 15, 2009 at 11:17 PM

    The majority seems to be in favour of censoring this post. WTF UW will edit this post.

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  13. AnonymousNovember 15, 2009 at 11:40 PM

    Thanks mods!

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  14. AnonymousNovember 16, 2009 at 3:13 AM

    Glove is just a LITTLE bit jealous...

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