Fintilgin
Educated
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- Feb 18, 2005
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Vault Dweller said:Last, my advice to people who complained about the pictures and voted for the stronger policy - if you don't like it, make your voices heard in this thread. If you don't care enough to state a strong opinion, don't expect things to change much.
Ugh, well I can voice a strongly worded opinion, but it's preaty clear which way the wind is blowing, and I'm not going to pretend my opinion counts for anything here. Thing is, asking for a minimum level of semi-intellegent discourse isn't really in violation of an 'unmoderated' forum. Automated russian spam posts and other idiotic threads wind up in Retardo Land. Why? Because they really don't have any redeeming value. Neither, IMHO does shit like tubgirl and goatscx.
I mean, really, it dosen't. Stupid pornographic 'gotchas' exist only so someone can feel all clever at having tricked people into seeing something they didn't really want to see. Does that garbage really serve any purpose? Does it belong on an RPG site?
It might sound stupid, but I think letting that stuff go unchecked lowers standards of the site and really undercuts any claim the Codex makes to being a place where intellegent conversation takes place. I suspect it drives off a fair number of otherwise interesting and valuable posters. Now, you can bluff and bluster about how if it drives someone off then 'They aren't the sort of person who should be posting at the Codex, anyway,' and 'If they can't stand the heat they should stay out of the kitchen'. But do you really mean it? I mean, is that really the sort of place the Codex is supposed to be? Is that really where you want to put the bar of entry? Are the standards here really so low? Does that attract people who'd like to have intellegent, hype-free discussion about RPGs, or does it attract asshats who think the hight of wit is tricking strangers into clicking on a pornographic link?
Don't get me wrong, if that's what you want, more power too you, but for a place that supposedly has some sort of standards and intellegence it's a bit ironic.