Quick question about the forums

By Blooberry. 14/07/10, 12:17 am

/is annoying

By Deathscythe Hell. 14/07/10, 12:20 am

Its a vaild questions/sujestion the point has already been proven,something about it should be added to the rules with the way people have reacted to it.

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I don't know how you thought you could start a thread about it without causing drama. If you honestly just wanted to bring it up and suggest a rule change to the mods, they have PM buttons. That's what they're there for.

By CheiraLeena. 14/07/10, 12:31 am

By CamusCanDo. 14/07/10, 12:33 am

Right off the bat, this seems like a question that could've easily have been asked through PM to a mod/admin.

May I talk about political/religious issues in an intellegent discussion. If not, why and also why was it overlooked in the posting rules?

I don't need to know about your political/religious stance, or lack thereof, in a thead about posting rules. I would also take a second and think what these posts would entail.

By Deathscythe Hell. 14/07/10, 12:45 am

I have no idea who the mods are,other wise thats what would have been done.

this theard proved the point that it should be banned.Look at the way people reacted,with offence to something that wasnt ment to be offencive and using a diffrent point of view through examples.

Also @CamusCanDo
whats a world with out facts?Whats the point of talking when people dont listen to facts?retorical questions you dont need to anwser btw.
Also theres good reason as to why religous and political discussions should not be aloud,because people of diffrent points of views take offence to oppisite points of view and can result in large amounts of conflict just look at ireland.You can say were more "civil" and "mature" then them but someone will always take offence to this kind of discussion in one way or another.

Also i never set out to offend anyone because if that was my intention i would have taken a hugely diffrent aproch and flamed alot of diffrent religons/political views from the begining.

By Icarus. 14/07/10, 12:59 am

you're right, some people will take offence when it comes to these topics. But thats the thing about computers. When you don't click on certain links, the whole thing is avoided, isn't that wonderful? Very Happy

and I get the feeling that, though you're trying to make that point of possible trouble occurring with that topic out of good intentions, perhaps it's the way you're saying it that feels like you're trying to start a flame war.

I'm sure the mods have been very careful and thoughtful with creating the rules, as many has mentioned, all the users are quite happy with this forum being very free in their convo topics~
and if trouble does happen, ours wonderful mods will do what they need to~~ after all, nothing bad has happened purely because a rule of forbidding political/religious view, y/y?

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Here here Icarus!

By Deathscythe Hell. 14/07/10, 12:08 pm

By Cactiberry. 14/07/10, 12:15 pm

I think the rule doesn't exist because it doesn't _NEED_ to exist.
We're a community that relies on each other, most of the time, and it's all too easy to compare us to one big, mismatched family - there's been drama in the past, and we've LEARNED from it. Even considering the age range here (Speaking from one of the absolute ends of the spectrum) if a debate was started, I think we're all intelligent enough to keep in civil :/ Banning something that hasn't even come up in a negative aspect, even as just a cautionary thing, is fairly useless in terms of a rule.

By Deathscythe Hell. 14/07/10, 12:25 pm

This sort of discussion can go from civil to flame war very quick tho.ive seen it before on other sites that havent banned discussion on it.

But if you guys dont think it should be whatevz im bearly on here so i guess it doesnt matter to much to me.Just wanted to proved help to stop some trouble that could potenitaly happen due to there not being any rules on it.

By **JVCA**. 14/07/10, 12:32 pm

Jeez, this thread is ridiculous. Here's the official mod response, and I'm locking this thread because it is all just a bunch of SILLYBZNS.

TL;DR: We allow discussion, not arguement here. You wanna discuss a delicate subject? Totes fine so long as you are mature about it and it doesn't breach the PG-13 rule. It is NOT acceptable to make confrontational posts (of which I see one or two here from all parties B|) because THAT is what turns a thread from a discussion to an arguement.

Discussions are interesting and widen people's fields of view, but arguements are petty and timewasting.

As such, we mod on a thread-by-thread basis. We identify threads that have the potential to get out of hand and watch them like hawks. If someone overreacts or takes offense, depending on the scale of the dramu we either delete the posts that made the thread go downhill (for example, in this one I'd be eeleting Pseudonym's post for it's accusatory tone. We call this purging) or if the thread is not salvagable, we confiscate it to a hidden forum to keep as evidence.

Either way, we issue warnings to those who made the thread go sour. You may have noticed there's no rule against political/religious discussion, but there IS a rule against making comments designed to start an arguement, and we use that heavily in dramu. We also have a rule against making hateful comments which often is violated in dramu.

Basically -

"I physics hate Greenpeace, they're all a punch of pothead wankers!" = NOT okay

"I dislike Greenpeace for their affinity with marijuana legalisation and the impact they have on commercial entities when they try to inflict their ideals on other people." = awesome.

The first is someone being a whiny little smarmy wrench who's out to offend people. The latter createsthe start of an interesting discussion.

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I hope this makes sense - I just woke up. Anyone with queries can PM a mod; I'm locking this topic.
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By **jpwise**. 14/07/10, 12:33 pm

*snap* beaten to the mod reply by JVCA. But there you go.

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