I contacted the Snapzu team directly as I thought their terms were somewhat ambiguous and they were very clear that hate speech and bigotry would not be tolerated. This is not a 100% free speech site, so if that's what you're after I suggest you look elswhere.
The ambiguity was in whether this was a code of conduct that the admins hope the users will enforce, or if it's something that the admins themselves would be involved in enforcing if necessary. They stated that they were invested in keeping Snapzu free of overt hate speech, and that if the community failed to stifle hateful content they would take action. So far this hasn't been much of an issue. I only asked the admins because I anticipated an influx of Redditors that would be fleeing the site as it tries to monetize, and I was concerned that a certain subset of these users would seek to recreate the hate forums of Reddit here.
Again, consideration of intent on the part of the speaker and use of the reasonable person standard on the part of the alleged victim should lead to sufficient clarity in what ought to be banned or not.
I contacted the Snapzu team directly as I thought their terms were somewhat ambiguous and they were very clear that hate speech and bigotry would not be tolerated. This is not a 100% free speech site, so if that's what you're after I suggest you look elswhere.
That doesn't remove ambiguity, it just reiterates what it already says in the terms.
The ambiguity was in whether this was a code of conduct that the admins hope the users will enforce, or if it's something that the admins themselves would be involved in enforcing if necessary. They stated that they were invested in keeping Snapzu free of overt hate speech, and that if the community failed to stifle hateful content they would take action. So far this hasn't been much of an issue. I only asked the admins because I anticipated an influx of Redditors that would be fleeing the site as it tries to monetize, and I was concerned that a certain subset of these users would seek to recreate the hate forums of Reddit here.
Again, consideration of intent on the part of the speaker and use of the reasonable person standard on the part of the alleged victim should lead to sufficient clarity in what ought to be banned or not.