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Cut a few posts. Lets see if people get the hint before having to roll up the sleeves and get more "hands on" ;)

Just out of curiosity, who decides what is acceptable within a community forums. Do the rules come down from the main company or is it left to the community manager, I guess i'm trying to fish as to whom made the decision to ban "girl" images from the forum. I wouldn't want to put you in a compromising position and I will fully understand if you dodge that question but it still makes me curious as to who decides what culture a forum will have.

 

To be honest I can understand why the women thread had criticism?

 

It did seem to objectify women....but why do you want to look at hot women when you can chat to me ?

 

.....I'm sorry Bruce but I don't think of you that way.

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I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"*

 

*If you can't tell, it's you. ;)

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Cut a few posts. Lets see if people get the hint before having to roll up the sleeves and get more "hands on" ;)

Just out of curiosity, who decides what is acceptable within a community forums. Do the rules come down from the main company or is it left to the community manager, I guess i'm trying to fish as to whom made the decision to ban "girl" images from the forum. I wouldn't want to put you in a compromising position and I will fully understand if you dodge that question but it still makes me curious as to who decides what culture a forum will have.

 

 

Well, I reported the image, so if you need someone to blame.  Do we really need 'girl' images in every thread?  It is pretty clear that this particular thread is not about such things.  The poster actually asked if he could post images of girls, a moderator then answered and said quite clearly no, and he then proceeded to post the image anyways.  That's pretty obnoxious.  I'd probably go further than removing the image, hence it being a good thing I am not a mod.  :p

 

I'd imagine Obsidian has the ultimate say in what the forum culture will be.  It is a company website.  

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Cut a few posts. Lets see if people get the hint before having to roll up the sleeves and get more "hands on" ;)

Just out of curiosity, who decides what is acceptable within a community forums. Do the rules come down from the main company or is it left to the community manager, I guess i'm trying to fish as to whom made the decision to ban "girl" images from the forum. I wouldn't want to put you in a compromising position and I will fully understand if you dodge that question but it still makes me curious as to who decides what culture a forum will have.

 

 

Well, I reported the image, so if you need someone to blame.  Do we really need 'girl' images in every thread?  It is pretty clear that this particular thread is not about such things.  The poster actually asked if he could post images of girls, a moderator then answered and said quite clearly no, and he then proceeded to post the image anyways.  That's pretty obnoxious.  I'd probably go further than removing the image, hence it being a good thing I am not a mod.   :p

 

I'd imagine Obsidian has the ultimate say in what the forum culture will be.  It is a company website.  

 

 Yes but as I'm now part of a  company I realize that no one in a company has any ****ing idea of what it is happening. Most of the meetings are to try and figure out what is happening and the rest is to figure out what are we going to do now that the deadline is soon and nothing is done because no one knew what was happening.

 

Companies are a mess, so i'm just wondering whether this was an actual executive decision that came from the company or of it  was a community manager or some other in betweener . I'm not expecting an answer anyways but it would be nice to know why a thread that had successfully kept itself tasteful and had several iterations was suddenly prohibited because some rainbow colored sourpuss on the other side of the internet had a hissy fit. Either way, enough time has passed and I think they forgot about the whole thing, so can we please have our ladies back?

I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"*

 

*If you can't tell, it's you. ;)

village_idiot.gif

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Cut a few posts. Lets see if people get the hint before having to roll up the sleeves and get more "hands on" ;)

Just out of curiosity, who decides what is acceptable within a community forums. Do the rules come down from the main company or is it left to the community manager, I guess i'm trying to fish as to whom made the decision to ban "girl" images from the forum. I wouldn't want to put you in a compromising position and I will fully understand if you dodge that question but it still makes me curious as to who decides what culture a forum will have.

 

 

Well, I reported the image, so if you need someone to blame.  Do we really need 'girl' images in every thread?  It is pretty clear that this particular thread is not about such things.  The poster actually asked if he could post images of girls, a moderator then answered and said quite clearly no, and he then proceeded to post the image anyways.  That's pretty obnoxious.  I'd probably go further than removing the image, hence it being a good thing I am not a mod.   :p

 

I'd imagine Obsidian has the ultimate say in what the forum culture will be.  It is a company website.  

 

 Yes but as I'm now part of a  company I realize that no one in a company has any ****ing idea of what it is happening. Most of the meetings are to try and figure out what is happening and the rest is to figure out what are we going to do now that the deadline is soon and nothing is done because no one knew what was happening.

 

Companies are a mess, so i'm just wondering whether this was an actual executive decision that came from the company or of it  was a community manager or some other in betweener . I'm not expecting an answer anyways but it would be nice to know why a thread that had successfully kept itself tasteful and had several iterations was suddenly prohibited because some rainbow colored sourpuss on the other side of the internet had a hissy fit. Either way, enough time has passed and I think they forgot about the whole thing, so can we please have our ladies back?

 

Orog I also agree with Hurlshot on this one and I'm not trying to annoy you or seem obstructive or like I'm a hypocrite but I was asked by a women forum member once if  I thought it was appropriate 

 

So I would like to make any lady members feel comfortable if they come to Off Topic....we should consider the big picture ?

"Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

John Milton 

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -  George Bernard Shaw

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela

 

 

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Cut a few posts. Lets see if people get the hint before having to roll up the sleeves and get more "hands on" ;)

Just out of curiosity, who decides what is acceptable within a community forums. Do the rules come down from the main company or is it left to the community manager, I guess i'm trying to fish as to whom made the decision to ban "girl" images from the forum. I wouldn't want to put you in a compromising position and I will fully understand if you dodge that question but it still makes me curious as to who decides what culture a forum will have.

 

The "basic" rules comes from above if you want. I.e. no discrimination, no explicit nudity etc. The rest is left to the moderators. As for the pretty woman thread, you can thank those people who simply had this compelling urge to see how far they could go instead of trying to stay on topic and post pictures of pretty woman. It was given a lot of chances and people failed consistently to self moderate. Nothing more complicated than that really.
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“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
 

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Cut a few posts. Lets see if people get the hint before having to roll up the sleeves and get more "hands on" ;)

Just out of curiosity, who decides what is acceptable within a community forums. Do the rules come down from the main company or is it left to the community manager, I guess i'm trying to fish as to whom made the decision to ban "girl" images from the forum. I wouldn't want to put you in a compromising position and I will fully understand if you dodge that question but it still makes me curious as to who decides what culture a forum will have.

 

The "basic" rules comes from above if you want. I.e. no discrimination, no explicit nudity etc. The rest is left to the moderators. As for the pretty woman thread, you can thank those people who simply had this compelling urge to see how far they could go instead of trying to stay on topic and post pictures of pretty woman. It was given a lot of chances and people failed consistently to self moderate. Nothing more complicated than that really.

 

But Gorthfuscious can I ask a question? If a lady member of the forum, not a man,  felt it was inappropriate would that matter more?

"Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

John Milton 

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -  George Bernard Shaw

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela

 

 

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To slide in amongst all this social discussion..

 

A cool picture..

 

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Edit: Oh, and in case anyone wondered.. That's Bath in Somerset. The remains of the old Roman Baths...

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"Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."

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"Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."

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Clouds over Mt Rainier

 

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For the random cave...

 

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"Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."

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Not really cool but a storm rolled in and I took some pics

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My younger dog is not afraid of the thunder and actually hangs out on the balcony during the storms

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But my other dog is hiding under my desk in the office

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Your furnishings also suggest you have a pretty sweet pad as well.

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“Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.”
 
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"The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete."

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Did you guys find the Nucwear Wessels?

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"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

Thomas Sowell

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too many images to post.  the national geographic travel photographer o' the year contest winners were announced

 

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/photographer-of-the-year-2016

 

HA! Good Fun!

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"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

"Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)

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Was I not nominated?

well, you don't exact look like a xiao-liang liu, but is possible

 

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/photographer-of-the-year-2016/gallery/week-8-nature/3

 

that yours?

 

HA! Good Fun!

"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

"Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)

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Clearly rip-off. The location caption says Yellowstone, Indiana, United States.

 

I feel comfortable saying images like these are proof we're not alone. 

 

 

*in the universe, I mean

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All Stop. On Screen.

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"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

"Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)

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"Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."

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