On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Dos-Man 64 <chairs...@mail.com> wrote: > LOL. Whatever that is :D
Evidently you missed the whole "Church of Scientology" thing. Few years back, some actor I forgot the name of converted to this church and various Internet message boards declared war. I'm still not clear how an Internet message board can go to war, but for a while there was all of this anti-Scientology propaganda circulating the Internet. It was one of those Internet memes which goes in one week and out the other. <hat id="admin"> The trick is that these kinds of memes are off-topic. On many message boards, they have a kind of "kitchen-sink" area where anything goes. We don't. This entire group is supposed to be 100% on-topic (or very close to that). The other reason I reacted such is that I've seen a lot of specialized communities (similar ours, in that they're all there to talk about something specific) basically destroyed by religious "discussion." It always starts innocently enough. Someone uses some kind of religiously-charged comment. Someone else attempts to refute that comment in passing. Someone attempts to refute the refutation. This continues until the original topic is long-lost and it's just a pissing match to see who can scream until their face turns blue (this is widely accepted to mean that the "debate" is over.) During this time, the original reason everyone was reading this thread is lost. Most people don't care about religious differences in these technical group, so it taxes their patience. It ultimately damages the community. Additionally, every time such a flame-war happens, the likelihood for another flame-war to erupt increases (roughly exponentially). Put plainly, I have zero-tolerance for any kind of religious flame-war in this group. Here we discuss GNU/Linux. In the event that someone decides to start a religious flame-war, there will be bans. I know that you, "Dos-Man 64," didn't intend to start a war. I think it's neat that you made a text drop shadow using your program. But I'm still giving a warning: religiously-charged comments are taboo. They start things we don't want to have to deal with. For that matter, politically- and racially- charged comments are taboo as well. It just opens an off-topic can of worms that many people feel very passionately about. Things get out of hand too easily, and I think we all would rather have none of that here. So, in the interest of ensuring that this group stays happy and on-topic, I just want to stick my foot down and say "hey man, that can start stuff that is bad." So now you know, and we can continue on our merry way. Again, I'm not angry, you're not in trouble. I've just seen other communities damaged by this kind of nonsense, and I want to stop it before it starts. Call me paranoid, but that's where it's at. So to recap: o Please avoid racially, politically, or religiously charged comments. o From time to time, these things happen. It's OK. Ignore it. Do not react. o If you react in a way to a R/P/R -comment that is aggressive or could start a flame war, you will be banned. </hat> Cool embossing effect by the way. It could be just me, but I think the right eye on the LGM face is a little wonky. :) -- Registered Linux Addict #431495 For Faith and Family! | John 3:16! fsdev.net 0x5f3759df.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to linuxusersgroup@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to linuxusersgroup-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
