maddawg IAJI said:
A text box is meant for text, not images. If you want to add them to convey your point further, fine, but you should be capable of writing how you feel on a subject.
Woah, woah, hold on. Ever heard that adage "A picture's worth a thousand words"? There's a reason
why I use pictures like I do. There's a certain amount of information and emotion that's displayed with a message or adds a certain amount of humor to an otherwise controversial topic.
Example: A topic about today's corporate journalists in the R&P forums may contain a post that simply has this and no text:
This
alone could convey the message that the poster is attempting to give in less than a paragraph, yet they'd get nailed with a low-content post while putting up a paragraph about Jon Stewart being one of the hardest hitting journalists wouldn't, despite the fact that both conveyed the same amount of information.
You do realize that until a few weeks ago, Warnings weren't made public correct? We're not out to get anyone, we just punish those who have been reported or those we catch in the act.
Which is a different issue entirely from "there's no way to redeem yourself from your transgressions." On a message board that had just Off-Topic, Forum Games, and Game Discussion, you'd be in the right. However, with the addition of boards such as a Politics and Religion, issues
will come up that will provoke a certain level of passion that wouldn't otherwise exist and, because of this, the board changes from a case of
if someone will be banned, but
when.
The punishment system is there to be used and I understand that it's there for that, but to simply state that your record from last year could invoke a ban despite having a relatively clean record in the meantime is a little ridiculous. Now that we have access to our own record (so to speak) we should be able to at least view how far we are down the track, but to say that this is a permanent state is a little alarming.
[user]BonsaiK[/user] put it best, though.
BonsaiK said:
I think "advocating pornography" is a pretty hypocritical thing to be getting in trouble for, when it's being administered from the same company that brought you "I Hit It With My Axe", and the whole "might offend someone" thing is stupid to take into account when we've got content on here like Jimquisition and Zero Punctuation which is pretty much designed to be offensive on some level. I don't think they thought any of that that through very well, but I guess it remains to be seen how it's interpreted and how hardcore they get with it.
If you're going to send a message of this forum being "family friendly" and set up an area where "offensiveness" is something that needs to be watched, the site needs to really take that into account when they're putting new videos up. While I understand that Jimquisition is intended to be satire, you also need to realize that satire can
easily turn into being offensive. It's an
extremely fine line that's being walked there.