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actually, the longer I see this "no politics" rule, the more I think that it shouldn't be here.
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I have the same feelings. If I remember correctly, we wanted to avoid heated conflicts as were seen over at Nukebox. However the problem over there was a lack of respecting other peoples views by a webmaster, and not really due to what was being discussed.
I've become a believer in following fudamental individual rights, as opposed to following collective rights, or majority rights. However, in life compromises have to be made, so long as they are sensible and do not overly infringe on individual rights.
Censorship is a form of collective rights, where a group or majority may be offended by something, and wish to not see it. The individual who is censored has had his fundamental rights of freedom to express viloated. In my view, the right of individual must take precedence, however if someone is pushing their brand of offensive material onto another group that does not want to see it, then the individuals in that group are having their rights to view what they choose violated. The compromise is to ensure that those who don't want to be offended will only see the offending material if they seek it out, while those who enjoy the offending materials ensure that they do not push it onto other unless requested.
Having thought about this issue some more, I think the sensible thing to do is to have nicks (and sigs) fall under the same rules as the regular postings do. I think we do have rules in there already to deal with racist remarks and so on, and there really is no reason why Nicks and sigs should be exempt for these rules, or should fall under a new set of rules.
Now as for the politics rule, I think it is worth reconsidering so long as we have a designated forum for political discussions, then only those who wish to debate need to participate, everyone else can simply choose to stay out and not read the posts should they be offended by what is said.
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Does what I say seem like a reasonable solution?
BTW: Thanks to Kwo for bringing this up for debate.