Originally Posted By: NJC
Originally Posted By: MarkC
I don't know, I personally never report threads, smacks too much of kindergarten.
I agree - reporting a thread never even occurred.
Yeah I'm inclined to agree too. It's never occurred to me. In fact, once I clicked the Notify link at the bottom of a thread thinking it was the "watched topics" feature and was surprised to find it was a "notify mods" link instead.
Of course people have every right to be offended by things and to report them to the mods. But getting offended by something on a message board and wanting it taken down just seems.. I don't know, asinine to me (to risk using slightly too harsh a word).
That's why I said I think the policies are misguided (but not stupid). It just doesn't strike me as necessary on a web forum. There are two angles here: "family friendly" and "unoffensive". To the latter, I think it's a valuable skill to be able to be unoffended by the arbitrary opinions people post on the web. To the former, I try not to let my age seep out in my posts but I was exposed to the internet quite a bit before I was a "mature" adult (hah!). Some stuff is not family friendly. I personally don't think that being exposed to "non-family-friendly" content is damaging. I'm not talking about seriously depraved stuff of course and obviously the line has to be drawn somewhere, based on someone's opinions.
For my part though, the extremely high quality of the membership-base and discussions on this site are what keeps me coming back despite the policies.
I should really go find something useful to do and stop rambling here...
Originally Posted By: MarkC
I don't know, I personally never report threads, smacks too much of kindergarten.
I agree - reporting a thread never even occurred.
Yeah I'm inclined to agree too. It's never occurred to me. In fact, once I clicked the Notify link at the bottom of a thread thinking it was the "watched topics" feature and was surprised to find it was a "notify mods" link instead.
Of course people have every right to be offended by things and to report them to the mods. But getting offended by something on a message board and wanting it taken down just seems.. I don't know, asinine to me (to risk using slightly too harsh a word).
That's why I said I think the policies are misguided (but not stupid). It just doesn't strike me as necessary on a web forum. There are two angles here: "family friendly" and "unoffensive". To the latter, I think it's a valuable skill to be able to be unoffended by the arbitrary opinions people post on the web. To the former, I try not to let my age seep out in my posts but I was exposed to the internet quite a bit before I was a "mature" adult (hah!). Some stuff is not family friendly. I personally don't think that being exposed to "non-family-friendly" content is damaging. I'm not talking about seriously depraved stuff of course and obviously the line has to be drawn somewhere, based on someone's opinions.
For my part though, the extremely high quality of the membership-base and discussions on this site are what keeps me coming back despite the policies.
I should really go find something useful to do and stop rambling here...
