# Does civilized discourse entail tone policing?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-civilized-discourse-entail-tone-policing/50039
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [12.Сентябрь.2016 21:22:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-civilized-discourse-entail-tone-policing/50039 "2016-09-12T21:22:37Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [13.Сентябрь.2016 21:53:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-civilized-discourse-entail-tone-policing/50039/24 "2016-09-13T21:53:06Z")

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> [@Rob\_Nicholson](#):
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> The four moderators usually have a chat via private message about what to do with the thread.

A good plan. It is healthy to make team decisions on moderation, [as I covered here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-recommendations-for-difficult-moderator-situations/47574).

As for your other example, there are things that for both technical and philosophical reasons, we don’t want to do in Discourse. For example, people frequently request a “let me spam blast email everyone who signed up on the forum” feature, and we won’t build it. If they are unhappy with that decision, this is 100% free open source software, so they are free to fork the project or build a plugin – but it doesn’t mean we need to host the discussion for that fork / plugin, either 😉

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