04-22-2022, 02:05 AM
If you're signed in as a member of the forums here, you'll see that we have two new subforums there: NSFW (18+) and Freedom to Speak.
Both of these are completely off-topic and password protected forums. In fact, they're hidden forums to boot, that only registered members can decide if they want to participate in them, or not. One thing people always objected about with "off topic" discussions in the past was that "they don't look professional for a site" and blah, blah, blah...
To address those concerns, the forums are hidden from the general public by nature. Folks have to go through the trouble to sign up and become a member of our boards to even know they exist.
Safeguard #2, these forums are each password protected. If you're going out of your way to join a forum, read up and ask folks about a password to a subforum, and then decide to be offended at the contents of those forums after having to jump through such hoops... /sigh I guess I'll just be happy to offend you, as it's obvious you went out of your way in an attempt to get in that state.
So what are these two forums?? And what features do they offer that others don't? Why would any sane person bother with jumping through the hoops to get into them?
Both forums are dedicated to the idea of us being built around a community, and for folks to have a freedom to speak with each other. One thing I always hated about the old forums, before they disappeared, was the Off-Topic forum being taken away. There should be some place where people who share the same hobby -- in this case QB64 -- can come together and get to know and talk to each other as people and not just as programmers. Why shouldn't the users be able to talk about politics, or sports, or religion, or their favorite TV shows? As members of the same community, they already have at least one trait in common -- they like the BASIC language -- so why shouldn't they be allowed to talk and chat and explore if they share other interests as well??
I dunno!! In my opinion, they should!
And thus, we have the two dreaded sub-forums that people either tend to love, or else they tend to hate.
NSFW (18+) is for people to talk about adult stuff. As long as what you post in here isn't illegal, I don't care what you post. Pictures of your infected toe nail turning green and falling off? I don't care! Want to trade nudes with Pete? I don't care! (/BLARF!!) Want to talk about some NC-17 movie? An erotica book you read? I don't care! And neither should anyone else who deliberately decides to force themselves inside a password protected forum.
If 18+ stuff isn't your cup of tea, simply don't go into that forum. If people post something you object to -- and it's not illegal (like kiddy porn, for example) -- then just ignore it and move on to the next topic. I'd say that we don't have any members who would post anything *THAT* bad in there, but then somebody would have to go and prove me wrong just for the shits of it.
Freedom to Speak is a more friendly version of the NSFW channel. Talk politics. Religion. Get into heated arguments with each other over whether C is better than COBOL... Just try and keep the imagery and such suitable enough that the conversation doesn't end up getting moved into the 18+ forum.
Both forums are going to be VERY lightly moderated, with people free to post and say what they want in them. Unless things get to the point that they're illegal (discussions about how to build a bomb and blow up the president, with step by step illustrated bomb making guides, for an example...), then I'm not going to step in and moderate people's freedom to speech. Chat with each other. Talk about each other's hobbies. Get peeved and fight with each other. That's what a community does -- particularly one that exercises its freedom of speech with each other.
And, if you've gotten this far in reading, and think you might be interested in joining in such talks, then let me ask you two last questions:
What do you have to be to view any sort of adult material? "over 18"
What limits do we place upon free speech and the freedom to speak? "none"
Both of these are completely off-topic and password protected forums. In fact, they're hidden forums to boot, that only registered members can decide if they want to participate in them, or not. One thing people always objected about with "off topic" discussions in the past was that "they don't look professional for a site" and blah, blah, blah...
To address those concerns, the forums are hidden from the general public by nature. Folks have to go through the trouble to sign up and become a member of our boards to even know they exist.
Safeguard #2, these forums are each password protected. If you're going out of your way to join a forum, read up and ask folks about a password to a subforum, and then decide to be offended at the contents of those forums after having to jump through such hoops... /sigh I guess I'll just be happy to offend you, as it's obvious you went out of your way in an attempt to get in that state.
So what are these two forums?? And what features do they offer that others don't? Why would any sane person bother with jumping through the hoops to get into them?
Both forums are dedicated to the idea of us being built around a community, and for folks to have a freedom to speak with each other. One thing I always hated about the old forums, before they disappeared, was the Off-Topic forum being taken away. There should be some place where people who share the same hobby -- in this case QB64 -- can come together and get to know and talk to each other as people and not just as programmers. Why shouldn't the users be able to talk about politics, or sports, or religion, or their favorite TV shows? As members of the same community, they already have at least one trait in common -- they like the BASIC language -- so why shouldn't they be allowed to talk and chat and explore if they share other interests as well??
I dunno!! In my opinion, they should!
And thus, we have the two dreaded sub-forums that people either tend to love, or else they tend to hate.
NSFW (18+) is for people to talk about adult stuff. As long as what you post in here isn't illegal, I don't care what you post. Pictures of your infected toe nail turning green and falling off? I don't care! Want to trade nudes with Pete? I don't care! (/BLARF!!) Want to talk about some NC-17 movie? An erotica book you read? I don't care! And neither should anyone else who deliberately decides to force themselves inside a password protected forum.
If 18+ stuff isn't your cup of tea, simply don't go into that forum. If people post something you object to -- and it's not illegal (like kiddy porn, for example) -- then just ignore it and move on to the next topic. I'd say that we don't have any members who would post anything *THAT* bad in there, but then somebody would have to go and prove me wrong just for the shits of it.
Freedom to Speak is a more friendly version of the NSFW channel. Talk politics. Religion. Get into heated arguments with each other over whether C is better than COBOL... Just try and keep the imagery and such suitable enough that the conversation doesn't end up getting moved into the 18+ forum.
Both forums are going to be VERY lightly moderated, with people free to post and say what they want in them. Unless things get to the point that they're illegal (discussions about how to build a bomb and blow up the president, with step by step illustrated bomb making guides, for an example...), then I'm not going to step in and moderate people's freedom to speech. Chat with each other. Talk about each other's hobbies. Get peeved and fight with each other. That's what a community does -- particularly one that exercises its freedom of speech with each other.
And, if you've gotten this far in reading, and think you might be interested in joining in such talks, then let me ask you two last questions:
What do you have to be to view any sort of adult material? "over 18"
What limits do we place upon free speech and the freedom to speak? "none"