IceEmpress posted at 1:10PM Sun, 07 February 2016 - #4252999

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.

I have to agree with you and say that there should be the ability to be honest and if you see something as negative you should be able to say so. From what I have read here this is accepted. What makes it difficult is that, in the past, there have been the request from mods requesting people not to be negative which I don't think is helpful. If someone says they think the latest update to a piece of software is poor they should have the right to say so, not only that, but I want to know their views Others may well disagree but at least people can look at both positive and negative comments and make up their own mind. Clearly something like this would still be allowed under these changes.

As to politics and religion, well, like many I suspect, I come to the Poser forum because I am interested in Poser, and I come to Rendo because I am interested in 3D art. If I want to look for political comment the Internet is certainly not short of places to visit. On the other hand religion is always a very difficult area and very personal. While I will happily respect other people religions I also understand it is very easy to upset someone, even when there is no intent to do so. Which again means I cannot see why this must be a subject in the forums at Rendo.

Having said all that, the subject is clearly not black and white so the real answer to whether these new rules are good or bad can only be answered when we see how they are applied.

 

 

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