Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

[Aksannyi]

Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

To be fair though, he was asked where he found the picture he was using so he just answered the question, though I suppose such things could be left to PM.


PM ME FOR NOODZ no don't really.

[cidbahamut]

Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

So is it safe to drop all pretenses of this being a child-safe forum from now on? Can I cuss more now?

I have yet to encounter a forum that is child-safe.

What we really need are forums that are child-proof.

[Etra]

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I warned you. Not my fault. And if you're not at work and have issues about seeing nude people, you need to figure out why. Also, I tried to turn the discussion away many times. Just saying.

Frankly. Don't care too much. I won't be butt hurt about being warned. Unless you're in the wrong. Like TGM.

[Melody]

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I've been in strife this week....wondering if I should just sell my PS3 and use the money to start XI again, since it just sits there and collects dust and I've been fine without one and the wait for XIV PS3 Beta isn't worth it any more, in my opinion. 11 holds a lot of good MMO memories for me, that I would like to rekindle again. Plus Seekers came out so....it honestly would give me SOMETHING to do other than play the same games at my house or grind on the same crap MMOs. I don't want to bother trying to mod my PS3 to run Linux, no point really.

[Taskmage]

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I warned you. Not my fault. And if you're not at work and have issues about seeing nude people, you need to figure out why. Also, I tried to turn the discussion away many times. Just saying.

Frankly. Don't care too much. I won't be butt hurt about being warned. Unless you're in the wrong. Like TGM.

I cared much more about this kind of thing when we had a much larger and more varied membership. To maintain an environment that was friendly and as inoffensive as reasonably possible for everyone. These days not so much. I tend to think of the forum as being 'for' those few of us that are still hanging around from the old community. Still, gotta draw a line somewhere, I think.

[Melody]

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I cared much more about this kind of thing when we had a much larger and more varied membership. To maintain an environment that was friendly and as inoffensive as reasonably possible for everyone. These days not so much. I tend to think of the forum as being 'for' those few of us that are still hanging around from the old community. Still, gotta draw a line somewhere, I think.

@ TM I might just be blowing smoke, and I shouldn't step in and I see where you're coming from as an admin needing to uphold the sanctity of the forums R&R but in his defense the NSFW tag did kind of save him in a way. Nobody put a gun to anyone's head and told them to click the link, plus he gave fair warning. Also if I may recall, someone else a few months back was speaking about Monsumu Quest and that's definately NSFW material at all. Granted they didn't post pictures, but the topic itself is pretty much porn when spoken about in the ecchi sense. But overall you're just enforcing rules, and being in that position is hard enough. More power to you TM.

@ Etra, I can see where your frustration vents from, but TM does have the right to penalize you for it considering it IS NSFW content, but you DID give fair warning about what is was, so that did in a sense save you. But also common sense rides in a factor of what to post on a forum and what not to post, regardless of if you put NSFW tag on it and throw up a caution flag. Some people DO have kids living with them (i.e. Squiggs) so imagine if his child saw that? He'd have some serious explaining to do.


For Etra

Banana

[Feba]

Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

I still remember the time I got in trouble for posting a picture of a dragon penis.


In retrospect, would completely do that again.

[Icemage]

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I don't really think a discussion about the forum rules should include people deliberately dipping their toes across the line just to see how far the moderation staff can be pushed.

I'll take another moment and remind everyone that any moderator can take action on any post barring Administrator intervention, so there isn't a "precisely" defined line of what is or isn't acceptable because we all have slightly different viewpoints, but there's certainly some general consensus about what is or isn't vulgar. We're not here to be lawyers, we're here to have some fun and keep things civil in the process.

Just try to use some common sense, ok? The intent of the rules is to try and make the forum safe for browsing to your average 13 year old. And no, I'm not talking about the trash-talking 13 year old whose parents let them scream at people online and watch R rated films.

We can have a debate about whether that attitude is still applicable to this community or not (this thread isn't the place for it) but until something changes on that front that's the line *I* will personally continue to draw.


Icemage

[Taskmage]

Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

I didn't give infractions to anybody, and I don't really care to. I'm not mad at anybody or anything. I'm just saying for future reference, let's avoid posting things or links to things which could easily be considered pornography, NSFW tag or not. Discussion is fine, but if anybody wants to actually view the subjects in question, they can google it for themselves.

It was me who posted the MGQ stuff, btw. I don't think any of those images were beyond PG-13. Just some funny dialog and that one monster saying "Kweh!"

[Etra]

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What you consider pornography, I might consider art. Think everyone seems to be confused about my general lack of care in the matter. lmao
It's just the internet. Moving on.

So what are some good shows to watch? I'm sort of running out of things to watch while I eat dinner. Doctor Who starts soon, but that'll only last me one night a week. :/

Edit: And don't you dare say Game of Thrones. Never.

[cidbahamut]

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Red Dwarf.

[Armando]

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What you consider pornography, I might consider art.

Forum rules serve the majority. It doesn't matter if you're right about it being art, what matters is how many people agree with you vs how many people you offend.

You're also forgetting that whether it's art or not is irrelevant to whether a 13-year-old should be watching it. You could argue an R-rated movie is art too.

[Melody]

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What you consider pornography, I might consider art. Think everyone seems to be confused about my general lack of care in the matter. lmao
It's just the internet. Moving on.

So what are some good shows to watch? I'm sort of running out of things to watch while I eat dinner. Doctor Who starts soon, but that'll only last me one night a week. :/

Edit: And don't you dare say Game of Thrones. Never.

Green Arrow, Grimm an old series I liked was Heroes. If you want to DL the season. :D My suggestion though, if you're going to watch Grimm, do it from the beginning, missing an episode WILL throw you off a wee bit, but not much.

[Etra]

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Forum rules serve the majority. It doesn't matter if you're right about it being art, what matters is how many people agree with you vs how many people you offend.

You're also forgetting that whether it's art or not is irrelevant to whether a 13-year-old should be watching it. You could argue an R-rated movie is art too.

I never said I was in the right in regards to forum rules. Was making a statement. If a penis offends you, you need to figure out why. Please go White Knight elsewhere. If you feel better banning me after I've tried TIME AND TIME AGAIN to drop the topic, fine. Two shits won't be given on my part.

Red Dwarf.

Never heard of it, but since it's British, I will have to check it out. :x

Green Arrow, Grimm an old series I liked was Heroes. If you want to DL the season. :D My suggestion though, if you're going to watch Grimm, do it from the beginning, missing an episode WILL throw you off a wee bit, but not much.

Tried watching Heroes before... Just got so bored with it. Heard good things about Green Arrow and I think it's on Netflix... So win!

[Melody]

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Tried watching Heroes before... Just got so bored with it. Heard good things about Green Arrow and I think it's on Netflix... So win!

I like it, they honestly don't do a bad job with the series. The effects however ARE a bit cheesy.