Rule suggestions please

[Viking]

How can you set rules to a “off topic” forum? I like or I like it not!
I was there when they closed the Pilots Lounge in UBI! I was there when Oleg left the Oleg’s Ready Room in anger!
They didn’t care for any rules, all that matter was the nationality and bias of the mods!
Why should it be any different today? There is no way you can keep an EU audience happy with some US mods and vice versa. Rules or no rules!
Veritas

[FlyingShark]

Maybe a bit logical but for some it may still be nesessarry to remind them that in an off topic section, people have the right to talk about what they want (except for politics, religion,...maybe). And so let's make it a rule NOT to critisise people because they talk about something that doesn't interest you. I remember on another forum I once talked about something completely different than airplanes or the sim and some started commenting "what has that got to do with aircraft?". Well, if some can't cope with people talking about something else than the som or aircraft, let them just stay out of the off-topic section.

~S~

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by FlyingShark

Maybe a bit logical but for some it may still be nesessarry to remind them that in an off topic section, people have the right to talk about what they want (except for politics, religion,...maybe). And so let's make it a rule NOT to critisise people because they talk about something that doesn't interest you. I remember on another forum I once talked about something completely different than airplanes or the sim and some started commenting "what has that got to do with aircraft?". Well, if some can't cope with people talking about something else than the som or aircraft, let them just stay out of the off-topic section.

~S~

Religion and Politics discussions - not good and always lead to some very ugly discussion.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

Religion and Politics discussions - not good and always lead to some very ugly discussion.

So, its the off topic pilots lounge...Rules..only drugs, sex, and bad language, only because of the young folks here.

[JG52Uther]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

So, its the off topic pilots lounge...Rules..only drugs, sex, and bad language, only because of the young folks here.

Exactly.

[JG52Uther]

OK no religion. Politics from around the world can be quite interesting though, as long as people are willing and open enough to other peoples point of view.
The ubi O/T forum was quite interesting when politics was allowed, although the Americans had to be reminded sometimes that theirs was not necessarily the most important.
Of course having American mods didn't help.
Now its banned,the place is dead.

[SlipBall]

+1 political debate, politics is interesting.

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

+1 political debate, politics is interesting.

Politics can be horror.

The issue as I recall with politics was the people from different countries did not understand other countrys' politics. The level of tolerance became testy at best.

It would probably work, if people from different countries respected and didn't discuss politics with people from other countries.

We all know how media slants news reports from other countries. The PIIGS thing has been problem all over the web... Portugal, Italy,Ireland,Greece and Spain from the EU. People from other countries should probably stay out of those discussions (Canada, Iceland, Russia, Turkey,etc.)

[Wolf_Rider]

just apply the same rules as listed in the posting rules - vulgar language, vulgar images, religion, politics, etc, etc and flick the bug threads (or at least merge them with another similar in the appropriate sub board), whines, product put downs and personal attacks.


"there is one subject, which should never be discussed at a dinner party if people should wish to remain friends... and that is religion and politics."



friendly political discussion, doesn't exist, even among like-minded people... political discussion invariably becomes toxic

[CharveL]

Pretty much everything is politics and religion by interpretation and degree.

How about no rules on topics and just arbitrarily smack down threads that get out of hand. The "no rules" policy should apply to mods as well, so simply lock threads that get out of hand and ignore all the indignant, butthurt posters that try and turn it into a mod-nazi debate.

I'm sure the mods are reasonably fair and try not to be biased but we don't need a court of law to decipher individual situations in a forum like this. Life's not fair sometimes and if you can't play here than they can cry about the unfairness somewhere else.

I mean, really, just stick to the legal stuff like overtly racist, serious and unrelenting personal attacks, pron, that kind of thing. Let the rest work itself out and don't be shy about unceremoniously locking bad threads until people lose their anarchistic tendencies and everything settles out.