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If I were to lock this thread for hyperbole and dramatization, would you start lobbying for free speech? Or would you accept that this thread is entirely meant to stir up drama that we the staff have been trying to keep to a minimum recently?
We clarified on the rules. The rules are there to keep discussions constructive, to prevent folks from derailing discussions, to amplify signal and filter out noise. We're not against the posting of images, videos, GIFs, or the like. We're against their use as stand-alone commentary, since most such cases aren't constructive or thought-out and most such cases are trolling/baiting/derailing attempts anyway.
We're not against humor either. But we're supposedly roleplayers, and if roleplayers - people who write as a hobby - can't take two minutes out of their time to write up a few sentences of substance in addition to their chosen image/gif/video, then I suppose we should start expecting to see the Feels Bad Man sadfrog and the like to crop up a lot in the coming days, weeks, months, etc.
Post what you want, but post constructively if the aim of the thread is to have actual discussion. If you're issued a warning, then that warning was issued after careful consideration by the moderator in question and was NOT issued lightly. And if you received a PM instead of a warning alerting the user to how they had toed the line and could they please avoid such in the future... what? Is that grounds for complaint?
tl;dr: a post in "Describe your relationships with a GIF" is going to fundamentally differ from a post in "Examples of Keeper Lore", and the distinction between the two should be understood and respected.
EDIT: In the time it took me to write this up, people had responded to the OP.
We clarified on the rules. The rules are there to keep discussions constructive, to prevent folks from derailing discussions, to amplify signal and filter out noise. We're not against the posting of images, videos, GIFs, or the like. We're against their use as stand-alone commentary, since most such cases aren't constructive or thought-out and most such cases are trolling/baiting/derailing attempts anyway.
We're not against humor either. But we're supposedly roleplayers, and if roleplayers - people who write as a hobby - can't take two minutes out of their time to write up a few sentences of substance in addition to their chosen image/gif/video, then I suppose we should start expecting to see the Feels Bad Man sadfrog and the like to crop up a lot in the coming days, weeks, months, etc.
Post what you want, but post constructively if the aim of the thread is to have actual discussion. If you're issued a warning, then that warning was issued after careful consideration by the moderator in question and was NOT issued lightly. And if you received a PM instead of a warning alerting the user to how they had toed the line and could they please avoid such in the future... what? Is that grounds for complaint?
tl;dr: a post in "Describe your relationships with a GIF" is going to fundamentally differ from a post in "Examples of Keeper Lore", and the distinction between the two should be understood and respected.
EDIT: In the time it took me to write this up, people had responded to the OP.
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