Admin Post: Rule Clarification and Additions

[jessimuhka]

Hi everyone. We (your lovely moderators) have noticed an upswing in the number of posts targeting individual users, rather than the snark worthy material within those posts. This post is not directed at any particular snarkers, it is a general problem we've been discussing over the past few weeks

Comments

[bunnikins]

I don't think I fit the 'sock puppet' definition, but thought I'd stick my hand up & ask not to be removed, just in case! I tend not to post or comment, just lurk, but I really like this community. Reading the snarks lets me giggle at the stupid, instead of gnashing my teeth & sternly telling myself not to post comments if I can't think of anything nice to say...I come over here & someone has always said it for me:)

[loopygoat]

My journal fits the sock puppet definition pretty well, but it's really not, I promise! I just use it to read communities.

[imjudyb]

My info probably makes me look like a sock puppet, because so far all I've done is add a comment here and there to other's posts. I've never written in my journal because I just don't know what to say (although I might eventually figure out something). And I've never posted anything because by the time i get over here, it's already been done! Anyway, that's a long-winded way of saying please don't remove me.
Thanks

[subbes]

I don't post or comment, but I do read. I don't fit any of the other criteria for a sock puppet but I figured I'd make it clear -- I'm not a sock puppet, I'm just too busy to contribute my own snark so I sit and watch other peoples'.

[blaueteufelin]

Thank you for this! I get a little disheartened at times by the mean-spirited tone of some snarks.

I'm not a sock-puppet! I comment, but I don't post - I don't think I would take a snark well myself, so I don't deal them out, either.