Sorry, Shii, I didn’t see a good reason people couldn’t know who was on the committee, but I haven’t felt the need to spew the line up of everything that was hashed out. What is the point in that? I’ve already argued everything to death, I’m sick of it.

When we were looking for a sensible stance the opinions varied wildly. Before you go raising yourself and Tubs onto a pedestal as sole defenders of the people you might mention to the people that one of the major points that kept getting argued over and over was the fact that every person had a different definition of what was “shock.” Definitions of what was shock ranged from “pierced nipples” to “anything being expelled from the body” to “anything where the subject is unwilling” to “x amount of any bodily fluid” to “graphic pornography or violence.” It was all mixed in with the defining of NSFW and at some point at least one person mentioned averting their eyes whenever anything pornographic was on screen.

No one was “rah rah, let’s allow shock”, it was more of a “how can we create a cirgreat timesstance where 7 people with different opinions treat the users fairly, so people aren’t getting banned based on which mod got the report.”

What offends or is shocking to me is personal and it is an “I know it when I see it” thing. Why would that be different for any mod or admin? Unfortunately, the mods and admins are in a position to have their personal taste make a game impact on a player who might have considerably more liberal taste. (See bummilk drama for point of reference.) As mods/admins are the people with the power to ban, rather than have MCB ban for something that Tubs would allow, or spacekadt question why Aldo banned for something she wouldn’t have, ET proposed a solution that eliminated mod opinion from the equation.

Did it impact rp? If by impact you mean that SG was disgusted by it and stopped rping, yes. Other than that there have been very few players rping anything other than “I’m a troll, see how I spam!” for a long time, so really not a major impact.

It has always been a little game for the rule pushers to try to find the borderline images to post, then they have fun creating drama when the ban comes down. With the allowing of shock the admins basically conceded that you were the very best at pushing to the limit. Congrats, you won and the admins put the game away rather than insisting that their mod team continue to jump through hoops in the game of “is this image shock?”

Perhaps this is a case of be careful what you wish for. Perhaps with the introduction of the community ban, it’s time to rethink it, push shock back into the hole that most of us would prefer it had never left. And if the rules do change, maybe there will be a lot of mods and admins laughing their bumes off the first time someone wails about their unfair ban. Log in to see images! scully edited this message on 04/13/2011 10:55AM