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What is appropriate content for DonationCoder?
CodeTRUCKER:
Herein lies the problem, what I feel as pain you find humorous. This will never be resolved. What can be resolved is if people become more important than rights, but it appears my attempts at planting are not finding fertile soil.
-CodeTRUCKER (January 03, 2008, 10:28 PM)
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CodeTRUCKER, you voiced a concern and technical solutions have been proposed. True, technology will never be fully effective, or at least not effective and efficient at the same time, as you yourself realized when it became too hard to keep maintaining your Proxomitron filters. But this is what can be done.
What also can be done is request that posters refrain from racy topics, which is happening all the time at DC - not the requesting, mind you, but the refraining! As others have noted, DC is one of the most "clean", most corteous discussion forums of its size and popularity.
What else would you like to happen, please?
I never advocate for the minority to submit to the wishes of the majority (but this itself is a highly political topic for an entirely different forum!) However, and please set me right if I misunderstand your intentions, you seem to be asking everyone to apply the lowest common denominator when deciding about what might possibly be offensive. Because it's not only about swearwords, is it? It's also about content that may well be relevant to the site. The YouPorn post might well have been an article in an IT magazine, after all. It's a "people meet technology" issue - part computing, part sociology. It seems to me you are asking adults to refrain from discussing certain relevant topics. So what would you like to be done?
-tranglos (January 03, 2008, 11:18 PM)
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To be honest with you, I don't have a clue. I have submitted my case and have received the response. As far as I can tell its over. Please don't confuse capitulation with defeat. I don't feel defeated. Time for the next step.
Darwin:
...I think that if app103's HTML tag was tied to tranglos's (click to view) button, with a strong public recommendation that anything not qualifying as "Polite Conversation" be labeled as such ... That the folks here could easily Self Police their way to a reasonable resolution.
Mods could also be allowed to insert the tag for any borderline stuff without having to resort to any feather ruffleing draconian post deletion.
-Stoic Joker (January 03, 2008, 11:19 PM)
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This is what I was trying (but failing) to say above, and you've done it much more succinctly as well :Thmbsup:
CodeTRUCKER:
Now c'mon... isn't this doing the same thing you just criticized me for above?
-CodeTRUCKER (January 03, 2008, 10:44 PM)
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I never said you were wrong in the views you had on profanity and such.
-Veign (January 03, 2008, 10:52 PM)
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Oops!, no, I wasn't talking about that. I was referring to framing your comment as an me -vs- everyone else grouping right after you had adressed me for doing the same thing. Maybe I read it wrong?
CodeTRUCKER:
...I think that if app103's HTML tag was tied to tranglos's (click to view) button, with a strong public recommendation that anything not qualifying as "Polite Conversation" be labeled as such ... That the folks here could easily Self Police their way to a reasonable resolution.
Mods could also be allowed to insert the tag for any borderline stuff without having to resort to any feather ruffleing draconian post deletion.
-Stoic Joker (January 03, 2008, 11:19 PM)
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This is what I was trying (but failing) to say above, and you've done it much more succinctly as well :Thmbsup:
-Darwin (January 03, 2008, 11:35 PM)
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Somehow I missed the original post, but I'll second this motion.
mitzevo:
Idk really what to say with out acting like a semi-prick but..
DC is really a great community, if you decide to think about the small dis-tasteful things over the really great useful stuff (which is more than 97%), then that's your decision. Considering that thousands of other forums have useless crap and have thousands of idiots, DC is a gem in the rough.. Like you said, DC has become your home (or was), but you can't have every thing you want.. it's not fair.. other people like to talk about other things.. if you don't like what other people are discussing, don't read or even think about it.. sure, if it's really bad, then cut it out and it's more than fair to point it out that it's inappropriate.. but what you are talking about is just general discussions and chit-chat.
I mean if you find stuff on DC that is offensive to you (rarely the case), then there is no forum for you my friend, DC is one of the cleanest and most professional forums available, all for free... Nobodies perfect, why should DC be an exception? I'm sure with out some of the stuff you are talking about, DC would be dull and boring.. it's good to have a laugh here and there, and get along together.
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