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Originally Posted by BillPratt
Haven't said or argued a thing about Vincent's proposed rule-set. I only disagree with rule two, and think it can be worded better. The current version reads homophobic: "We frown on erotic male transformations."
As for Vincent's avatar, that could be ignored so long as he remained cast in the roll of forum troll. When it looked like he may have had some standing.... You have to call that out.
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See, though, that was my problem with your post. You didn't say anything about the content and instead chose "Your avatar is stupid and offensive" to be the thing you talked about, while ignoring what vincent was actually trying to discuss. As a matter of fact, your first reply of "Are you serious?" added absolutely nothing to the discussion and made it sound as if you were opposed either to the idea of having guidelines or to following the ones that were posted. Pardon me if I misread you there, but that's how it sounded.
Fair point that it did sound a bit homophobic written that way; seems vincent has rephrased it, so hopefully no longer an issue.
And I can understand why it could be off-putting to think that someone who actually has some authority around here might have a deliberately offensive avatar like that, or why it's upsetting for someone who isn't a mod or an admin to post something that sounds like "THESE ARE THE RULES!"; to reflect the true nature of things I made a minor edit to the thread title. For the record, I do support the idea of having established, written guidelines that are easy to find and that users and mods alike should be expected to follow.
Everybody cool now?