Forum: Community Center


Subject: Stop to bloody and gory pics! At least, make them put a warning message!

Calanthe opened this issue on May 26, 2003 ยท 69 posts


Penguinisto posted Mon, 26 May 2003 at 5:23 PM

I dunno... when you hit 150k members (do these accounts ever go dormant, or how do they count that? - ah, ne'ermind.) At anyrate, with 150k members, you're bound to become 'mainstream' in a heartbeat. I mean, look at deviantart.com - originally, it was extreme, and almost no subject was taboo (damned few were...) Now with a zillion members, it screams "mainstream!" Just the way it is, I suppose... but that's the thing about overpopulation... folks spread out to stake out new territory. Those who don't, demand standards that are more in keeping with polite society. Calanthe and eirian has a point, though... nothing wrong with a Violence tag. It's not as if they're asking for censorship. Incidentally, "Hound of The Baskervilles", a far more original creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was much lighter on the violence, using the readers' imagination as a tool to induce a feeling of horror, instead of using the reader's eyes. But I'm drifting into territory that has been covered in the old porn debates... whether or not the best images are best left for the viewer to supply the imagination. /P