We have lost good members of the RP community because of the actions of a few who cannot keep their Military Bearing. Should we have tools available to us to help keep the peace?
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RallyPoint is a community with a great deal of camaraderie and overall respect, but sometimes there may be specific members that you just want to disengage from. Based on your input, we've created the ability to block specific members. When doing so, you will still see their posts, but it will break interaction between you two. When blocking somebody, neither side is able to:
- Tag you in a post
- Connect with or endorse you
- Respond to your questions
- Comment on your responses
- Vote on any of your questions, responses, or comments
To block somebody on desktop, you can hover over their name and then click on the block logo, or go to their profile and click on the 3 dots right above their contact totals. On mobile, you will see the block icon below their specialty in the top of their profile. When clicking on the icons, you see another screen with information on what is about to happen and asking you to confirm. Please see the link below for more details on this feature:
http://support.rallypoint.com/customer/portal/articles/2036624
We're always working to make RallyPoint a better experience for you... and while most of you will never have a need to block somebody, I hope that for those who do, this will offer some relief.
Please let us know how it works for you!
SFC Mark Merino SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" SSG Carlos Madden CW5 (Join to see)
- Tag you in a post
- Connect with or endorse you
- Respond to your questions
- Comment on your responses
- Vote on any of your questions, responses, or comments
To block somebody on desktop, you can hover over their name and then click on the block logo, or go to their profile and click on the 3 dots right above their contact totals. On mobile, you will see the block icon below their specialty in the top of their profile. When clicking on the icons, you see another screen with information on what is about to happen and asking you to confirm. Please see the link below for more details on this feature:
http://support.rallypoint.com/customer/portal/articles/2036624
We're always working to make RallyPoint a better experience for you... and while most of you will never have a need to block somebody, I hope that for those who do, this will offer some relief.
Please let us know how it works for you!
SFC Mark Merino SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" SSG Carlos Madden CW5 (Join to see)
Responses: 13
SSG John Erny I'm not one for blocking anyone. If I say something that offends someone, then I will do my best to apologize and make it right. We all have opinions, some good, bad, and plain ugly. We should try to respect everyone's opinion and discussion points. If we have a few bad apples out there that can't be respectful or think its a joke to bash others in this forum, then the RP Admins need to take the appropriate action to bring them back into the fold. I would hope that everyone on RP has the maturity and forbearance to know how to respond in kind and with respect. Just because you are veteran and have been out of the military for long time, or on active duty, or a retiree that shouldn't give you the right to degrade or disembowel someone online. Let's continue to show progress as true professionals in our industry.
SSG John Erny, I have never down-voted a RallyPoint member; but, I have notified individuals that their comments were offensive and reported them to administrators by tagging them in a response to an offensive posting and leaving the decision in the hands of the administrator.
I think the Biblical standard for dealing with offense makes sense here: If a RallyPoint member offends me or if I offend somebody one on one communication makes sense [since we may not be contacts then the only way to contact them could be a response to the offending post]. If that does not resolve the issue then mediation makes sense - in this case the mediators would be the administrators or possibly somebody we both are contacts with]. The blocking I think seems appropriate would be limited to communications, responses, comments between the offending and offended parties. There should be an option for the blocking to be reviewed. In hopefully rare cases where somebody would be so consumed with attacking another member after being blocked that additional restrictions would be placed by administrators with at least three administrators required for a more complete blocking of the offending party. SGT (Join to see), SPC (Join to see), SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"
I think the Biblical standard for dealing with offense makes sense here: If a RallyPoint member offends me or if I offend somebody one on one communication makes sense [since we may not be contacts then the only way to contact them could be a response to the offending post]. If that does not resolve the issue then mediation makes sense - in this case the mediators would be the administrators or possibly somebody we both are contacts with]. The blocking I think seems appropriate would be limited to communications, responses, comments between the offending and offended parties. There should be an option for the blocking to be reviewed. In hopefully rare cases where somebody would be so consumed with attacking another member after being blocked that additional restrictions would be placed by administrators with at least three administrators required for a more complete blocking of the offending party. SGT (Join to see), SPC (Join to see), SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"
I think those of us that are on here a lot know the difference between strongly opinionated members and those who are out to troll. I would hope down votes from people who are well-respected on the site would put them in check.
If not, that's what we have admins for.
If not, that's what we have admins for.
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1SG (Join to see), I just wrote the same thing as you. Only yours is not as long winded as mine. LOL I don't use the down vote anymore. If there is someone causing problems, and they don't care how many thumbs down they get, it's like pouring gas on a fire. The block button will be useful in this situation. Only other problem I see is that the "Problem" becomes someone else's problem. I might suggest, if someone is blocked three times, they're out. It like Three strikes, you're out.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs I couldn't agree more with the point of your original comment. We all have creeds which discuss our professionalism. We should be able to reel ourselves in.
Thankfully it is not visible in the popup over our own name when we hover over it :-)