(November 17, 2016 at 11:14 am)Tiberius Wrote:(November 17, 2016 at 11:05 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: I just disagree that we should ban anyone based on how they make other people feel. Spamming wholly unrelated things and advertising... Sure, that should be banned. But banning someone because your itty-bitty feelings are offended or because they trigger your intellectual complacency.. That is policing speech and it might very well be a remnant of the currently rampaging PC movement. It's the stupidest thing I can think of and it creates an environment where everyone agrees with everyone with the exception of a few chose cases which are kept around for entertainment purposes... Such as Rik.
I'm not staff, though, and staff will never agree with me on principle, me thinks. But I thought I should begin a discussion about it nonetheless. If it fails, I will probably begin one unrelated to the forum rules and more about this phenomenon in general...
I don't agree that we are policing speech. Again, this isn't about some one off thing or even a few posts. This rule is designed to detect people who do this repeatedly. There are also ways in which you can express an opinion which people disagree with, but doing it in a non-provocative way.
Well, okay, I guess. I don't see this discussion really going anywhere , despite my hopes when creating this thread that it would. . .
I disagree wholeheartedly, because as I said, I don't think anyone should be silenced, not for their opinions and not for how they express them. Not for appearing to not really hold them and not even for lying about them with an ulterior motive in mind.
But I might be wrong because I might not know the reasoning that goes on behind the scenes or the cases that gave rise to this rule. I really don't know. I just can't imagine someone can be so "disruptive" with their posts that they have to be banned. Color me skeptical, I guess .
