I feel the need to create a topic about the way censorship works around here. The main reason I'm creating this thread is due to the lack of edit button, something that no matter how I think about it, just seems wrong. How many threads have we had now in site suggestions asking for something as standard and simple as a fucking edit button being enabled for everybody, in every forum? Now so far, the only response I've heard to this is "There have been issues in the past regarding people editing posts after flaming/spamming" or something along these lines. Well that's all fine and good, well, no, it isn't. If this is the case, how does this harm things more than it helps? Somebody removed a flame? Good. They either had the sense to realize they shouldn't have said what they said, or they were afraid of being punished. Either way, the problem takes care of itself without the need for a mod or admin to step in.
Now, that said, when I talked to Kio his issue was that he didn't want people getting away with being able to do that. If he was flamed, he'd want that person to be punished or whatever. Fine, you want something done? Take a screencap, or tell a mod/admin and have something done about it. There's always somebody around, right? I mean, this is what I'm told all the time. There are ALWAYS mods and admins around at all times always forever to talk to should you have issue with anything. Right? In all seriousness, if you want something done about an issue like this, you can get it done pretty easily. If the problem takes care of itself, why elevate things just because you got butthurt over a comment that somebody removed anyway? It's nothing more than the admins/mods would do, besides perhaps a warning to go with that, but why bother warning somebody if they've corrected themselves?
Another thing that comes to mind is something I've been noticing in the IRC. Whenever I speak to anybody about drugs in any way, I am always met with warnings from ops saying that talking about drugs is spam or somehow a bad thing or inappropriate to do in the irc. Or that it's irrelevant to most/some of the people in the irc. Take it to PM, blahblahblah what the fuck ever. Well, as far as I know, the IRC is a place to converse with other editors, there should be some type of level of maturity around here, I find it pretty fucking sad that any sort of drug talk automatically gets you flack. That said, it's perfectly fine for Atari and Pas to flood the fuck out of the irc talking about some Starcraft video they're watching. Let me tell you, I am not a starcraft fan, that shit is irrelevant to me, it's nothing but annoying flooding that gets in the way of other conversation in my eyes, but I fucking deal with it.
Where do we draw the lines here as a community? Are we not an artistic community? Too much blood/violence/sex in a video is against the rules here, how the fuck is this a good thing for art? I can understand maybe not hosting hentai videos locally, but anything more than that just feels like my voice as an artist is being hushed. I put this here and not in Site Suggestions because I want some discussion to go on about this and the edit button thread has been made many times by now, it's waste of time to bother posting in there again to me.
Discuss.







