Forum: Photography


Subject: A Difficult Question

geneb19 opened this issue on Feb 25, 2004 ยท 75 posts


TaltosVT posted Thu, 26 February 2004 at 1:04 PM

This bit from the TOS seems to explain any images in the galleries that might be questionable: "Conversely there may be some images which, whilst in apparent violation of the rules, will be permitted to stay in the interests of free speech and religious tolerance." Basically, the way I read the TOS, the moderators and admins keep or dismiss whatever images they want to. My assumption, which I think is probably a fair one, is that they don't do this without some discussion first. Personally, I'm not big on censorship. When it comes down to it though, we all censor in some form or another. I won't allow my seven year-old daughter to watch horror movies. Is that censorship? She knows all the words to Rocky Horror Picture Show though (okay, it might not be a horror movie, but Meatloaf does get chopped up and eaten). I guess it's a fine line. Remember that the moderators are human. They make decisions based on what they know and believe at the time, just as we all do. Sometimes they are right, and sometimes they are wrong. Also remember that by being members, we all in theory agreed to the TOS. We shouldn't make a huge fuss when the moderators apply it. They are just applying it the way that they read it at the time. By the way (since I'm too lazy to search for it right now) what are the steps for becoming a moderator? Maybe more of us should volunteer so that there is a larger group of people to discuss the merits of questionable images? -Taltos