[split] Peanut Gallery Commentary-and the drama over the nudity thread continues

[bennyboy]

I was responding to this mostly

If there was a "negativity clause," the membership role on these forums would include only those who exclusively post cat memes and respond to all threating ideas with smiley-face icons.

Let me clarify: there's negativity in almost every line in every page on these forums, wherever ideas are being discussed and being debated. Just saying, "You're wrong" is negative.

So the clause revolves around the word "excessive," which is so hopelessly poorly-defined and arbitrary that it represents an escape clause, which is a violation of the principle of the social contract at a fundamental level.

I have nothing against cat memes. I used this as an example of the only members who weren't "negative," and thereby under the over-arching blanket of an arbitrary assessment of whether they were "excessively" negative. Although. . . now that I think about it, some of the cats in those memes say some downright negative things.