PerfectN opened this issue on Jun 23, 2007 · 124 posts
j_g posted Tue, 26 June 2007 at 3:30 AM
When you're dealing with people who absolutely refuse to turn nudity off, but can't handle dealing with anything but a very subjective concept of "tasteful nudity", well, you've got problems. You have to deal with people who want the world to be an impossibly ideal place where everyone else has to somehow unreasonably anticipate what are the limitations/capabilities of every single one of those people, and accomodate it all. If the world really could be ideal, the way it would be ideal is if people simply didn't get so uptight and worked up about silly things.
Maybe Rendo ought to consider forcing new arrivals to view a page full of images of varying amounts of nudity. Next to each button would two checkboxes labeled "Acceptable" and "Unacceptable". When the user finishes "judging" the images, that user would be assigned a "nudity rating" (say, a value between 1 and 10, where 1 = "prude who would complain about the scantily clad figures on the sistine chapel" and 10 = "I'll look at anything without feeling the need to complain to Rendo about it"). Then an artist could assign a value to each of his images. Folks who have a rating less than that value would not be permitted to view it. Ultimately, only folks with a rating of 10 would be allowed to view everything.
The only way to convince some people how dangerous it is to start "judging" others and their work, is to give them a taste of their own medicine and judge the "judges". Once people start getting rated by their own choices, and given or denied freedoms based upon how tolerant they're willing to be, then you'll see these folks stop judging and complaining so much.
People tend to do things only when they think they can do it without impunity. As soon as they receive a taste of their own medicine, they back off really quickly.