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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

I am often stunned at how our users talk to each other

It's continuously shocking IMO.

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

but the truth is they are more concerned with minor racial stuff and if scantily clad pictures of females may offend the 0.5% of posters here that make up females than actually making this place a more hospitable place for hockey talk.

Using the phrase "the truth is" means you've decided how reality is regardless of what anyone else says or does, so my response is more for others than EE since nothing I say will dissuade someone who's decided what the truth is.

Beside what Jiri said, the ability to do something factors into how visible a response is as well.

Driving a car always seems like a good analogy. Calgary is filled with drivers doing bad things. Some are bad drivers, some are great drivers just making that once in a while mistake that everyone makes. Some merge poorly, some speed, some don't pay enough attention, some tailgate, etc..

But what do the police focus on? Speeding, stop signs/red lights, etc. Partially because those things are simpler to assess. It's easy to measure a speed or see if someone blows through a red light. It's harder to monitor attention or other poor driving behaviours.

Same thing with moderating. It's easy if someone uses a slur or posts an inappropriate picture or has a meltdown. It's far harder when it's on the line, especially when you don't want to eliminate conflict.

Unless we want to have a zero tolerance policy for anything that looks like an insult. Would be far easier to moderate, but I don't know if anyone will enjoy that.

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

but it doesn't change the fact that it's the truth and the site needs to look in the mirror.

To continue with the analogy, this is like blaming the police for poor driving in Calgary because they aren't out there punishing every driver every time they tailgate or don't merge at speed or cut someone off.

If Calgary has a problem with bad drivers, it's primarily because the drivers are bad, not because the police aren't enforcing heavily enough.

The analogy isn't perfect, because we, unlike the police, can decide who drives on our roads, but I don't want to be a police state.

The only real way to make CP a better place to post (which I agree is always a goal) is to increase the ratio of "good" to "bad" posting (whatever those mean), which is something each person can do (don't respond to poor posts, ignore parts of posts which are inflammatory, etc).