We are making this blog to let you all know of a rule that is going to be enforced more harshly following this blog. We would like to direct you to our profile, where we have made this addition. You can find it under "General Harassment" on our profile:
5A. Disability Shaming/Harassing users while personally attacking them about disabilities - This is one of the newer rules of Tengaged. This will be something that is taken seriously, and bans will be handed out because of it. Using the "R" word is not bannable, but disability shaming and going out of your way to attack somebody, telling them they have certain disabilities is now something that is considered a bannable offense and falls under general harassment of users. Any offenses will be taken seriously and bans will be handed out based off the users past, how many bans they have received, and the severity of the comments.
We believe this is a huge issue here on Tengaged. Now, it's going to be difficult to judge what is really disability shaming, and since this falls under general harassment, not everything will be bannable. It will depend on the severity, but if you genuinely feel like a comment is offensive and should not be on Tengaged, please let us know, and we will do our best to make sure that the comments do not come back up, as long as they are reasonable.
Going forward, disability shaming will be a minimum 2 day ban and 7 day black list. (if it is blogged) If a user has many past bans (does not matter what sort of bans they are), longer bans will be handed out aswell as longer blacklists.
We do not want to look for a reason to ban the users of Tengaged, but this issue has come to our attention a lot over the past little while. Any chances on the Tengaged_Moderation account will be made once I receive access to this.
If you have any questions or concerns, please post on this blog or send us a mail.
We're talking about extreme cases in this blog. People who are harassed and being told they have different mental disabilities (even if they don't) is not okay. Hence why this rule is being put in place. I'm not looking for a reason to ban people. Harassment on Tengaged shouldn't exist if everybody were just here to enjoy the website. ak73
ak73 what may be 'dumb shit' to you is not to people who live with or have family members with disabilities. I'm pretty sure you can go through your tengaged life without laughing at disabilities
first of all i haven't ever said anything (that I can remember) that was intended to "laugh at someone with a disability"
secondly what I meant was that ANYONE should be allowed to express their opinion regardless of how disrespectful or dumb or whatever it may seem.. the only way to educate people is to let them express their opinion and try to reason and show them why they may be wrong
there's no point in teaching people not to say racist/stereotypical/disrespectful ect things but rather we should try to teach them why it's wrong sweetiepiesweetie
I read this really good article once that had nothing to do with mental disorders or anything but he used the word 'retarded' as it's dictionary definition and it sounded so good I was very impressed as it was one of the first times I had heard the word used in it's proper/original way. I just wanted to share. :)
I am so happy to see this... I get tired of seeing people harassed for their disabilities or people saying they have a disability... People need to realize it's not something people can help and nobody should be harassed for it... Now that i've just started to rant because it makes me sick, i'll just say good... I am glad we have a new mod!
This is absolutely amazing! The way I'm understanding it is if you just throw the word out there (which you shouldn't in the first place it's fine, but going out of your way to attack someone will result in a punishment?
T_ModTEMP the R word SHOULD be bannable, like it USED to be. There is absolutely no context which it should be allowed and it is silly that it is now allowed, especially since it's almost used exclusively on tengaged as an insult. Please reconsider and make it a bannable offense, especially given this new disability rule.
Thank u very much t_modtemp. I saw a blog once about people calling autistic people animals and it seriously offended me because my older brother has autism.
What about the issue brought up in the comments of SweetiePieSweetie's blog?
Someone possibly faking a disability.
If someone claims they're autistic, then someone calls them autistic, but then they send the report skipping the part where they said they said they autistic, from the looks of things, you judge it by the offender's history rather than the truth, T_ModTemp.
Shouldn't counter reports be a thing?
A chance to prove your innocence?
What is considered a disability? Being mentally ill? Being overweight? Being dyslexic? Having ADHD? Because other than being it seems you just imply mentally challenged to the word disability. Anything is considered a disability. So if someone calls me fat when my parents genetically overweight and I inherited their genes, would I be able to come to you if I get harassed?
Like one of the comments up above, this seems to be an oxymoron ( throwaway). If applying this rule, then you might as well just cut out the word disability and just take in offense to harassment in general. Which according to online data I collected throughout my months of studying online interactions for my college profession, sociology, it is inevitable to stop harassment if banning them and them creating a new account to continue the harassment.
Specifying these rules will help clarify a better understanding. I mean if someone is mentally challenged, then how did that person create the account? Who is supervising them? Who is controlling their internet time to prevent such things of harassment?
Just my thoughts. I don't really agree with these rules since majority of the time we never do see rules like this fall through. Because you need evidence to make a ban, and who are you to judge whether it is worthy of being a harassment when you don't know if the person provoked him or her to name calling?
