2009-07-21, 09:48 PM
MasPan Wrote:[color="#cc8899"]I completely understood what you were saying about adding more rules. As Fiel/Zaotsu said, however, this is NOT a new rule. This rule has been around in one fashion or another since day one, so what you were trying to say is completely irrelevant. No new rules were created. When the rules being added are in no way limiting our free speech beyond anything already frowned upon, then there is no slippery slope, beyond that in your own argument. You are looking for a problem here that doesn't exist, and in doing so are insulting the people explaining things to you. Saying something went "over [our] heads" is the same as saying "oh, I guess you're not smart enough to understand." Your condescending tone is really not appreciated.
The site's leadership knows what they are doing (in this case, hardly anything, as stated, considering nothing is being changed here beyond taking what was before simply policy and making it rule. Either way, it's enforced the same way) and don't need "words of caution." As with above, that tone is condescending and implies you think you know more than the people you are talking to.[/COLOR]
The title of the thread is called "New infraction: forum bashing." It is a new rule.
I could think your tone to my last response "Outlawing all discussion of other forums =/= outlawing mocking of other forums" was condescending, but I know you didn't mean it in that way, nor did I think you were attempting to insult me in that response. It was just a response, and should be handled as such.
You believe the forum moderators are doing a good job. So do I. You feel the mods are right to enact this policy. I am warning them to be careful not to enact too many policies and end up like the very people that compeled them to make this site in the first place.
I am already in agreement that the mods can enact any policy they want. And it is clear the rule will stand.
And zaotsu, you're right, and I was arguing semantics (and failed
).