We should add a Non-Discrimination Policy (aka a fancy way of telling people not to be jerks)

Question

Here I made one. Maybe we should add it to the rules or something. Opinions or revisions are welcome.

The PokéBase strictly prohibits discrimination, harassment, or hate speech of any kind. Any violating of this policy can be used against you by a moderator who believes you are discriminating, resulting in a temporary or permanent ban and/or removal of your offensive content. We do not tolerate bias or unfair treatment based on one's stated or suspected traits, including, but not limited to:

• Race, color, or ethnic origin
• Nationality or national origin
• Religion, belief, or creed
• Sex, gender, gender identity, or gender expression
• Sexual orientation
• Age
• Physical, mental, or learning disability
• Socioeconomic status

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This policy applies to all aspects of the PokéBase, including:

• User Behavior: all activity on this site
• Profiles/Avatars: all content within one's profile

Additionally, if a moderator sees a PokéBase user off-site doing something that breaks our non-discrimination policy, they can judge whether that behavior makes said user not welcome on the PokéBase.

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To maintain a safe space, the following actions are strictly banned on our platform:

• Using slurs, derogatory language, or discriminatory jokes.
• Promoting hate speech, stereotypes, or harmful generalizations against any group.
• Excluding, bullying, or harassing individuals based on any protected characteristic(s) listed above.

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We take violations of this policy seriously. If you witness or experience any form of discrimination on our website, please report it to us immediately. To do so, post on a moderator's wall, or, more privately, submit a response on the PokéBase's Report Form.

Comments

Yeah but being racist is different than being mean to someone because of their county. I can understand why you might group racism and discrimination against people from a specific county but the 2 things are quite different. Honestly I don’t get why we have a country thing in our profiles in the fist place that seems to just be asking for people to hate on you because of the county you are from. Also if you want to continue this conversation let’s move it to our walls so as to not keep bumping this post.

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my opinion is that a lot of people from a certain country are probably that race, like how most ppl in china are probably chinese but sure lets move this to our walls

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The assumption that nobody here will be racist because we're online and nobody really knows each other's race for the most part isn't a particularly sound argument. Yes, it makes it harder, but that doesn't mean that people won't still make inflammatory statements; they just won't be directed at anyone in particular. It's happened here before, and it will undoubtedly happen again, unfortunately.

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Fair point

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This stuff is redundant since it's already covered by rule 0.1. We should keep the rules section short in order to encourage people to read them, adding this is not needed and would not result in any benefit.

Answer 1

For anyone who needs to hear it from us, the mods agree with everything in this post. No hate speech, the whips will crack if we see it.

But in spite of that, we wouldn't put something like this in the rules. The main reason is it wouldn't be effective. You can't convince a chud using a policy like this because they think it's hilarious. Their whole thing is "triggering the libs" and you just told them in painstaking detail how to trigger you.

I'm not saying this to put you down, I've just been doing this for a long time and had to learn the hard way. If you're explaining, you're losing. If you sound wordy, officious, engrossed, etc then that makes you a target. The solution is dead simple messaging - don't be a dickhead, least of all on a Pokemon hobby forum. Everyone already knows what that means.

Some other points were already mentioned, like keeping the rules tight and how this hasn't been an issue in practice. But the main thing is framing decency as common sense.

I cancelled out the downvote btw.