Forum: Community Center


Subject: Addition to TOS - Please Read!

hopeandlove opened this issue on Jan 27, 2016 ยท 72 posts


IceEmpress posted Wed, 03 February 2016 at 5:29 PM

To respond to your statement that we're going to "lose the community sense," it's not going to happen because as I mentioned previously, I'm NOT taking away your right to speak your mind, so please don't misconstrue my words. I'm simply saying I want us to move into a more positive environment and putting each other down is NOT okay. How is it right to personally attack someone?

I never said anything about personal attacks. I am talking about the prohibition of political or religious talk, which is very far reaching, esp. if you want to take preventative measures in the style of the anti-DRM thread. You also need to have clearly defined lines of what constitutes political talk-- which would unfortunately require a very broad and sweeping definition in order to avoid confusion. For example, most would consider complaints about lobbyists to be political speech. Fewer would consider talk about economic recession to be political speech, but the fact of the matter is that it is, and even if you disagree with me, the fact is that the subject is likely to progress into what you do consider to be political speech. That is just one example. A thread about a forumite's economic or legal woes also poses a fair risk of becoming political.