Quoted from necro_nemesis

Once again I didn't miss a thing. Is there a forum around that deals with arcade machine collectors?

Nope.  But if you hang around long enough, there is bound to be such topics as hot tubs and classic cars.

Quoted from Monkeybug

Nope.  But if you hang around long enough, there is bound to be such topics as hot tubs and classic cars.

Zing!

Aha! I sat here pondering...and I think I came up with a solution! Finally...after page after page of pizza and frog legs!

We trade in those "Inappropriate Avatars" for a dedicated B00BIES! thread!

16 pages, wow.

Anyone post a pic of inappropriate pizza yet? I was hoping....

Personally, I hope we don't censor. (self censoring is fine, just wipe up after). What is inappropriate to 1 is fine for another. It's a fun road to travel once you begin.

Anyways, Imma go play pinball nao.

Quoted from machine.slave

That's funny, people down East say the same thing about lobster.  

Give me West Coast Dungeoness Crab (or real live King Crab done 5 ways) or give me death.  

I don't know about anyone else but I really, really miss the girl on the pinball machine!  Any chance I can get an email of that one.  pleeeeeeeease...

I don't think there should be censorship rules at all.  I have seen nothing offensive here that you would not see watching cable TV in the afternoon.  Seriously...

I am a strong believer that society does too much to censor sexuality when they do nothing to sensor violence.  You can watch people get shot on TV, fight and abuse each other but you can't show a girl with a wet white T-SHIRT on.  So we should be ashamed of sexuality - hide it and pretend it doesn't exist but encourage violence?

How many kids are out there watching wrestling or even ultimate fighting - C'mon now - we are going to censor avatars???

A bit of a repeat message but with all the irrelevant posts, it's hard for a new reader of this most excellent thread to get what is being asked.  Still, read the first post in the thread, you will see no one is asking to sensor Avatars, it's self-sensor and there is a difference.  For example, if someone were to create a new thread that said "check out this naked chick on a pin", whether or not one agrees this is ok, at least you get fair warning, so you can decide to not click on it if it's your cup of tea. With Avatars, you do not get that choice. Someone could have posted a for sale ad for selling Cabbage Patch Dolls and if someone posted in that thread that has a risque avatar, a G rated thread becomes an instant push.

Thankfully, as I learned, we can turn off Avatars. This is too bad though, as 99% of the users don't have risque Avatars and many have funny Avatars that adds personality to the particular member, and so I lose out. But at least someone who is concerned with this can turn it off so that's cool.

Quoted from The Loafer

A bit of a repeat message but with all the irrelevant posts, it's hard for a new reader of this most excellent thread to get what is being asked.  Still, read the first post in the thread, you will see no one is asking to sensor Avatars, it's self-sensor and there is a difference.  For example, if someone were to create a new thread that said "check out this naked chick on a pin", whether or not one agrees this is ok, at least you get fair warning, so you can decide to not click on it if it's your cup of tea. With Avatars, you do not get that choice. Someone could have posted a for sale ad for selling Cabbage Patch Dolls and if someone posted in that thread that has a risque avatar, a G rated thread becomes an instant push.

Thankfully, as I learned, we can turn off Avatars. This is too bad though, as 99% of the users don't have risque Avatars and many have funny Avatars that adds personality to the particular member, and so I lose out. But at least someone who is concerned with this can turn it off so that's cool.

But it is about censorship - R-rated or X-rated I have never seen on here.  Let's get serious - you are talking about PG stuff.  I haven't seen anyone show any "private" parts on their avatar.  Seriously...  kids see much more that is a lot worse.  Ask them what they think of it.  Have they ever seen a beer commercial or poster?  C'mon now - you are being silly...  

the starting point on this was the viewing of this site during breack at their work, some of their collegues think its a porn site, so those guys do not want to have problem with their boss. They did not know that thay could turn off all the avatar, now that we all know there is no need for censoreship, we can censor wathever we want in our setting.

Now back to the serious stuff, lets keep growing the thread with funny stuff.

I wonder if censoring thing kepps growing up are we all gona end like Ned Flander wich he have cale tv and all the chanel lock because they are mostly offending?

tigliditigledo

Quoted from sinpin

But it is about censorship - R-rated or X-rated I have never seen on here.  Let's get serious - you are talking about PG stuff.  I haven't seen anyone show any "private" parts on their avatar.  Seriously...  kids see much more that is a lot worse.  Ask them what they think of it.  Have they ever seen a beer commercial or poster?  C'mon now - you are being silly...  

It's about choice, and the people who are around you may not appreciate what is displayed when viewing a "for sale" pin.  It was PRIMARILY a request to a member asking "can you tone down the fully naked chick on the pin" avatar because if ever my network PC is audited, people will think I'm surfing a porn site.  Finally, as this member implied I was the only one with the problem since no one else had complained, I asked, pure and simple, I asked if I was the only one.  From the comments in the thread, it appears I am not.  Now that people know I am not the only one, everyone can make their own decisions as to what to use; mission accomplished in the area of communication.

Killing all Avatars is overkill since 99% are ok, and in fact aside from being funny also add personality to the membership, but at least there is a choice.  The ultimate solution would be to be able to disable only certain members avatars (you know, similar to the "ignore" function, but only for avatars. BUt I don't believe such an option can be implemented.  Still, even that option isn't perfect, since that option is only used once you've seen something risque, which means its after the fact.

Unfortunately, a lot of great pros' and cons' pov's have been expressed but the danger of the thread turning into a pizza sillyness forum has meant those new to the thread such as yourself won't be going through 16 pages of them to read them and get different POV's.  If I was prone to conspiracies, one could say "job accomplished" .

Self-censorship:  We all do it everyday when we hold back from saying something that our brain felt was best to "pause", whether it's using foul language in a work environment, reading a porn mag on the bus, etc.  There is a huge difference.

Inappropriate avatars?  This thread currently has 2,930 views. Only 70 posts to go and , loafer , you could apply for a guiness record !!!  

adblock the ones you don't like!   (here we go again!)