This place has gone to heck

[Joe the meek]

I was reading with interest on this thread when I hit the pictures in the bathroom.

http://www.offtopicz.net/threads/women-in-afghanistan-then-and-now.77895/

Honestly, this place has taken a nose dive.

Where the heck are the forum rules posted, or doesn't this place have any rules? Does this place even have any moderators?

 

[AUFred]

I am around some but I have not deleted everything posted.

 

[AUFred]

Honestly I don't read everything either.

 

[Stone]

I was reading with interest on this thread when I hit the pictures in the bathroom.

http://www.offtopicz.net/threads/women-in-afghanistan-then-and-now.77895/

Honestly, this place has taken a nose dive.

Where the heck are the forum rules posted, or doesn't this place have any rules? Does this place even have any moderators?

Since that thread isn't available at the moment, what was the issue?

 

[The Man]

To many to edit?..I noticed the thread disappeared.

 

[The Man]

Since that thread isn't available at the moment, what was the issue?

We cross posted..I think it was some of the maz pictures

 

[Stone]

I don't like censorship, so I'm not calling for any threads to be deleted, but quite a lot of mazHur's threads in this forum ought to be in the debate forum.

 

[AUFred]

Nudity over the top.

 

[Joe the meek]

I don't like censorship, so I'm not calling for any threads to be deleted, but quite a lot of mazHur's threads in this forum ought to be in the debate forum.

I can assure you, I'm not for censorship, but there is time and place to see men's dicks on a public internet forum. I don't consider myself a prude, and graphic pictures of anykind don't disturb me, but again, time and place.

That said, the real first clue is when people call each other names, such as stupid, and nothing is done.

That said, I get the fact that we're grown adults and we can choose to ignore it.

 

[Stone]

I can assure you, I'm not for censorship, but there is time and place to see men's dicks on a public internet forum. I don't consider myself a prude, and graphic pictures of anykind don't disturb me, but again, time and place.

That said, the real first clue is when people call each other names, such as stupid, and nothing is done.

That said, I get the fact that we're grown adults and we can choose to ignore it.

I'm not for censorship, but there is time and place to see men's dicks on a public internet forum

Agreed....I wasn't aware mazHur had gone that far in testing civility at OTZ.

As far as name calling, imo, it's irrelevant if it can't be documented but censorship usually winds up as absolutes and in the end does more harm than good......a true test of a good moderator.
I was a member of a forum that had several such moderators. Owner's policy changed and they were out and rules applied as absolutes. Not just within the debate forum, across the whole range of computer tech forums of that site.
What was once a thriving site has less than 1/2 the guests and less than 1/4 the membership participation today as opposed to ~5 years ago. Once a forum loses interesting people that speak freely, others drift away and fewer are attracted.
mazHur may be a 'prickly pear' but the threads he starts that are controversial, do draw an unusually high number of views.

 

[Joe the meek]

Agreed....I wasn't aware mazHur had gone that far in testing civility at OTZ.

As far as name calling, imo, it's irrelevant if it can't be documented but censorship usually winds up as absolutes and in the end does more harm than good......a true test of a good moderator.
I was a member of a forum that had several such moderators. Owner's policy changed and they were out and rules applied as absolutes. Not just within the debate forum, across the whole range of computer tech forums of that site.
What was once a thriving site has less than 1/2 the guests and less than 1/4 the membership participation today as opposed to ~5 years ago. Once a forum loses interesting people that speak freely, others drift away and fewer are attracted.
mazHur may be a 'prickly pear' but the threads he starts that are controversial, do draw an unusually high number of views.

After a while, calling some a stupid ignorant son of a bitch (or equivalent) can get tiring to read

Ultimately, when one has to use such terms, the communication has ceased to be a conversation or debate, but just a plain old personal attack.

 

[Stone]

After a while, calling some a stupid ignorant son of a bitch (or equivalent) can get tiring to read

Ultimately, when one has to use such terms, the communication has ceased to be a conversation or debate, but just a plain old personal attack.

I agree......but absolutes can turn out to be a worse condition.

 

[The Man]

I don't like censorship, so I'm not calling for any threads to be deleted, but quite a lot of mazHur's threads in this forum ought to be in the debate forum.

Agreed as they are political/religious and he uses them for debate..but he keeps starting several in the general section anyway.

 

[The Man]

I can assure you, I'm not for censorship, but there is time and place to see men's dicks on a public internet forum.

I missed that one...not that I wanted to see it...but I agree there should not be porn in random threads.

 

[Stone]

Racist/pornographic proclamations seem to be mazHur's favorite debate/discussion style.
Has he always been like this?

 

[The Man]

Racist/pornographic proclamations seem to be mazHur's favorite debate/discussion style.
Has he always been like this?

In part...but lately there has been an increase with these style posts from Maz.
Some of the sexual remarks are rather disturbing...Seems to go inline with the culture there.
It appears the more he feels at ease with the deviant sexual remarks the more he posts them.

 

[porterjack]

links to animal porn are not acceptable

I reported such - I know a link is a link and I can ignore it BUT nevertheless the resulting website image was graphic and disgusting

name calling I can live with and ignore

 

[The Man]

links to animal porn are not acceptable

I reported such - I know a link is a link and I can ignore it BUT nevertheless the resulting website image was graphic and disgusting

name calling I can live with and ignore

I agree..animal porn is disgusting..I didnt know if it was allowed or not...I had thought the rules had gotten lax as it had continued for sometime.
Glad to see it is still against the rules.

 

[Jackass master]

Seems like one person has taken over the posting and it is not positive posts he puts up.

 

[AUFred]

I have tried to post other things to no avail.