I think #1 is a tad vague at the moment.
I agree. We can try to sharpen it up a bit if people have suggestions.
Again, it should really go without saying, but a simple "Treat others with respect. The commissioner reserves the right to remove anyone from the league at any time for inappropriate conduct" would be my suggestion.
I will sign off on this if pestering somebody after they ask not to be contacted is a bannable offense.
I get what you're saying. But to be clear, there's a difference between "Oh my god, he sent me one too many trade offers in a fantasy basketball league... oh my god, he thinks my player is worth a 2nd rounder... oh my god, he tried to tell me his fantasy basketball player is worth more than I think he is" vs... sending vile, disgusting and hateful insults for months and repeatedly escalating the level of harassment after repeated requests to stop.
To be clear, the level of insults and harassment I faced over the past several months (some publicly and many privately) is literally defined as illegal in several states within this country: http://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-information-technology/cyberstalking-and-cyberharassment-laws.aspx
And I want to nip this in the bud right now... I find it incredibly offensive that someone would equate my behavior (sending too many trade offers for Giannis Antetempoenko and writing admittedly annoying fake press releases) with the behavior of someone who made comments towards me that I can't repeat in this forum without getting a life-time ban.
There's a certain obvious line that someone shouldn't cross. It was crossed. If you need to put it in writing in our constitution that one should not cross that line, so be it.
You're right there is a difference between those two things LB33 -- making too many or low ball offers and outright harrrasment.
I don't think anyone has equated the two things. I think just about everyone in the league agrees that a line was crossed and that no member of the league should have to deal with harrassment. Case closed.
At the same time, I think that we all also agree that ignoring what people have said to you --- from "player x is not available" to "please stop sending me offers" to "please stop it with the fake twitter feed" --- is *also* a real problem. And that if any of us are doing that, yourself included, we need to stop ... out of respect for our leaguemates.
It's not illegal harrassment but it's at best really irritating and at worst really disrepectful (and possibly a violation of CBlog anti-trolling rules). I'll go so far as to say that even your
"oh my god..." above shows a real lack of understanding/listening to what people have said in the past.
I'm not saying anything here I haven't also said to you via PM.
I'm not saying any of this to pile on or troll you.
I just don't want this discussion to be built on a mythological foundation either.