Posted on May 13, 2015
Should we condone verbal abuse on a site which bills itself as a professional networking site?
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So, I was reading posts on this site and I found them rather disgusting. How in the world do you excuse calling a sister-in-arms, a Cun*? Or threatening to pound a person in the face, of subordinate rank regardless of branch? Where has our professionalism gone? I am quite certain, harassment of another person because you don't agree with their opinion is about as low life as one can get. If this is how a "PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING SITES" are ran, count me out. Nothing from what I just saw within the last couple of weeks is at all appropriate, let alone "professional".
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We have 600,000 members. We have a handful of Admins. They cannot "police" things until they see them. They are literally a reactive force.
The members themselves are what keep things professional. Unfortunately, "from time to time" people will lose their bearing, or a bad apple will slip into the bunch and before they can be "adjusted" we will have a few hours of drama.
The VAST majority of the site is professional. The vast majority of the membership is professional. The problem is that we can't "unsee" those instances that are dealt with. They're like car wrecks in our rearview mirror. We know they happened, and we're going to talk about them, even though they have already been cleaned up.
The members themselves are what keep things professional. Unfortunately, "from time to time" people will lose their bearing, or a bad apple will slip into the bunch and before they can be "adjusted" we will have a few hours of drama.
The VAST majority of the site is professional. The vast majority of the membership is professional. The problem is that we can't "unsee" those instances that are dealt with. They're like car wrecks in our rearview mirror. We know they happened, and we're going to talk about them, even though they have already been cleaned up.
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Really, SPC Leon? Put it into perspective. We have over half a million awesome users on this site, and one or two unverified "members" who repeatedly create fake usernames like "Eatadik" and post divisive, offensive comments until members report them and they're banned from the sIte. Don't let a handful of jealous, wannabe, Basic Training dropouts ruin RP for you. You're smarter and stronger than those trolls.
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SGT (Join to see)
Yeah, this really bad to have fake profiles on here and having people get our data off it... I a pissed off some scum bag would treat one of our own so horribly.
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SGT(P) (Join to see)
BTW SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP' THANKS for the promotion!!! I bet SGT Antonio Camacho didn't like the demotion but I'll take it as I'm acting like a NCO. hehehe
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SSgt (Join to see)
Wouldn't restricting un-verified members to being able to see posts, but not respond to them fix a lot of this?
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SSgt (Join to see)
Question... sorry I am still a Noob here. How do you tag peoples names like that? Also, I have seen on here saying to report when stuff like this is noticed, how do you do that?
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Absolutely not! I have seen some things on this site that have truly left me wondering about the state of professionalism and common-courtesy in our military. More times than I can count, the conduct of some RP members has caused me to consider closing my account altogether.
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TSgt David L.
No, you wouldn't accept it in your home or work place, so why is RP any different. Take it off-line or in PM. If it occurs once it might be OK but further occurrences should be dealt with by ADMIN ASAP. I won't put up with it myself and if it is a common thing I would have to consider leaving RP as well. We're better people than that. "Nuff said?!
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SGT Richard H.
I, for one, would not accept you closing your account, Gunny. Every organization has antagonists and protagonists. Losing the protagonists tips the balance the wrong way. As we've all sworn to do at one (or many) points in our lives, the onus is on us to tip the balance in the favor of what is right.
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SSG Donald Mceuen
No one needs to get nasty when all we are doing is talking about things
that matter to us. It is not going to fix shit but its nice to put it out there
with out having to put up with stupid.
that matter to us. It is not going to fix shit but its nice to put it out there
with out having to put up with stupid.
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LTC Stephen C.
Good for you, SGT Richard H.! If GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad leaves RP, then everything bad that happens thereafter is his fault!
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