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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6217391" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>It occurs to me that I should talk a little about *why* the rules are what they are, as that feeds into what the OP intended to speak about.</p><p></p><p>Take, as granted, that EN World's basic mission is to be a place where folks talk about RPGs, with a secondary mission to hang out, socialize, and discuss geeky stuff that aren't RPGs, specifically.</p><p></p><p>Again, take as granted, that the Internet is a wild and woolly place, where a lot of people feel very strongly about a great many things. Also, in text, our ability to express nuance and the parts of human communication that come with body language and vocal tone is extremely limited. And finally, internet pseudo-anonymity brings a great many people on the internet to behave badly, and to care little about their audience.</p><p></p><p>The rules are there to support EN World in its basic mission. Rule #1 is "Keep it civil" - if discussion ceases to be civil, discussion stops altogether, and the mission fails. The bans on politics and religion are because, on the whole, the internet has proven a really bad place to have civil conversations about those topics. Too many people feel too strongly about them, and they general devolve into name-calling and acrimony. Since most of the time those topics have squat-all to do with RPGs, eliminating them loses us very little, and makes for a handy shortcut to Rule #1.</p><p></p><p>Now, let's talk about humor for a minute. It is an easily demonstrable fact that beyond some very basic bits (body humor and slapstick, for instance) humor has never been universal among humans. Humor is, instead, context and audience dependent.</p><p></p><p>So, while I know some folks would prefer that everyone else accept their humor as humor, that is an unrealistic expectation. Then add in the "wild and woolly place with strong feelings" issues, and you start seeing the problem - there's no way you can expect everyone to think what you're saying is a joke, and they are apt to feel very strongly about it if you are trying to joke in the politics and religion (or race, or gender equality) areas.</p><p></p><p>Such joking may be acceptable among a small group of friends. And sure, you could get an audience for George Carlin, Dennis Leary, Margaret Cho, or Richard Pryor who will accept such a joke, but they are self-selected when they come to watch the show. EN Wold users are *not* selected to all agree on such jokes. So, you can expect them to be an issue. I recommend you use them sparingly, or not at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6217391, member: 177"] It occurs to me that I should talk a little about *why* the rules are what they are, as that feeds into what the OP intended to speak about. Take, as granted, that EN World's basic mission is to be a place where folks talk about RPGs, with a secondary mission to hang out, socialize, and discuss geeky stuff that aren't RPGs, specifically. Again, take as granted, that the Internet is a wild and woolly place, where a lot of people feel very strongly about a great many things. Also, in text, our ability to express nuance and the parts of human communication that come with body language and vocal tone is extremely limited. And finally, internet pseudo-anonymity brings a great many people on the internet to behave badly, and to care little about their audience. The rules are there to support EN World in its basic mission. Rule #1 is "Keep it civil" - if discussion ceases to be civil, discussion stops altogether, and the mission fails. The bans on politics and religion are because, on the whole, the internet has proven a really bad place to have civil conversations about those topics. Too many people feel too strongly about them, and they general devolve into name-calling and acrimony. Since most of the time those topics have squat-all to do with RPGs, eliminating them loses us very little, and makes for a handy shortcut to Rule #1. Now, let's talk about humor for a minute. It is an easily demonstrable fact that beyond some very basic bits (body humor and slapstick, for instance) humor has never been universal among humans. Humor is, instead, context and audience dependent. So, while I know some folks would prefer that everyone else accept their humor as humor, that is an unrealistic expectation. Then add in the "wild and woolly place with strong feelings" issues, and you start seeing the problem - there's no way you can expect everyone to think what you're saying is a joke, and they are apt to feel very strongly about it if you are trying to joke in the politics and religion (or race, or gender equality) areas. Such joking may be acceptable among a small group of friends. And sure, you could get an audience for George Carlin, Dennis Leary, Margaret Cho, or Richard Pryor who will accept such a joke, but they are self-selected when they come to watch the show. EN Wold users are *not* selected to all agree on such jokes. So, you can expect them to be an issue. I recommend you use them sparingly, or not at all. [/QUOTE]
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