On Oct 18, 6:10 pm, Chris Miller <lordsauronthegr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
I was involved in what you might call a religious controversy recently. It was a wild, bizarre, and stressful experience. It really changed my viewpoints on churches and church-goers (negatively). I even designed a custom t-shirt. Well, I just felt compelled to express that opinion at my website using this image. It was not my intention to stir up any type of flame war, nor would I be willing to participate in one. I'm adding in an eye dropper tool tommorrow. That helps quite a bit in making it easier to choose colors. The user can design a background image containing any colors he or she wants to use while drawing. Yeah, his eye did get messed up a bit. Diamonds are a bit tricky to work with; the original windows version of ebid didn't even have them. I'm still getting used to using them. Maybe I'll go back and fix it ;) dos-man -- 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
