Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 3:12 am
Hopefully even after the revision the moratorium will still reduce the amount of inappropiate content in NS.
Because sometimes even national leaders just want to hang out
https://forum.nationstates.net/
Dylar wrote:I would assume legitimate criticism against the Catholic Church's, or any other organization's, handling of the sex abuse scandals would be fine under these rules, but what about jokes and quips relating to it?
Thermodolia wrote:Dylar wrote:I would assume legitimate criticism against the Catholic Church's, or any other organization's, handling of the sex abuse scandals would be fine under these rules, but what about jokes and quips relating to it?
To the first I believe is ok per the example of the Epstein debacle. For the second I believe those are now verboten.
Dolgo wrote: I don't even want to know what kind of biological hazards moderation has to deal with.
Dylar wrote:I would assume legitimate criticism against the Catholic Church's, or any other organization's, handling of the sex abuse scandals would be fine under these rules, but what about jokes and quips relating to it?
New haven america wrote:So what if we're talking about something involving sex organs, but not sex?
Like, a while ago in the Trans thread there was a fairly tame discussion over biological sex, and it mentioned sex organs/hormone glands and/or lack thereof. Like Eunichs being castrated, or some men/women never going through puberty despite still having working bits, etc...
Is that still ok?
Diopolis wrote:New haven america wrote:So what if we're talking about something involving sex organs, but not sex?
Like, a while ago in the Trans thread there was a fairly tame discussion over biological sex, and it mentioned sex organs/hormone glands and/or lack thereof. Like Eunichs being castrated, or some men/women never going through puberty despite still having working bits, etc...
Is that still ok?
Or, as mentioned previously, circumcision threads we get from time to time.
Reploid Productions wrote:Diopolis wrote:Or, as mentioned previously, circumcision threads we get from time to time.
It shouldn't be a problem as long as the discussion doesn't go into excessive detail about said organs, same as when discussing topics where sex may be involved. If we were trying to hardcore sanitize you wouldn't even be able to mention penises or vaginas and so on at all. There's also a world of difference between, say, discussing "the long-term harm caused by genital mutilation because the damage to the glans leads to-" and "PUSSY GOT WRECKED!" Definitely an area where phrasing is absolutely important and definitely better to keep the language clinical where possible.
Reploid Productions wrote:Discussions about sex. BANNED, FULL STOP, NO EXCEPTIONS. This should go without saying, but given the number of times we've ended up catching people cybersexing, it clearly needs to be restated. This is a political sim game, we don't need to hear about how you're horny, who you did, who you want to do, what you did it with, any details about your sexual exploits real or imagined, favorite sex toys, preferred positions, particular kinks or fetishes. This is a PG-13 site. Go somewhere else if you want to talk about your sex life or masturbatory habits.
Krytenia wrote:Reploid Productions wrote:Discussions about sex. BANNED, FULL STOP, NO EXCEPTIONS. This should go without saying, but given the number of times we've ended up catching people cybersexing, it clearly needs to be restated. This is a political sim game, we don't need to hear about how you're horny, who you did, who you want to do, what you did it with, any details about your sexual exploits real or imagined, favorite sex toys, preferred positions, particular kinks or fetishes. This is a PG-13 site. Go somewhere else if you want to talk about your sex life or masturbatory habits.
I'd suggest a title change here to Discussions about sexual acts. As previous posters have noted, there are topics where sex is involved but the mechanics of such are not crucial to the debate (sex ed, abortion, pregnancy, etc), and these could be dealt with in a separate rule where such discussions are conditionally acceptable.
Discussions about sexual acts, though, can be quite happily binned.
The Free Joy State wrote:Krytenia wrote:I'd suggest a title change here to Discussions about sexual acts. As previous posters have noted, there are topics where sex is involved but the mechanics of such are not crucial to the debate (sex ed, abortion, pregnancy, etc), and these could be dealt with in a separate rule where such discussions are conditionally acceptable.
Discussions about sexual acts, though, can be quite happily binned.
This is the current version of the guidelines under discussion [/notamod].
I only mention it, because you seem to be quoting the original ones.
Katganistan wrote:...or not, so people can see the revisions it went through with everyone's input.
The Free Joy State wrote:This is the current version of the guidelines under discussion [/notamod].
I only mention it, because you seem to be quoting the original ones.
Reploid Productions wrote:Discussion/debate regarding age of consent laws, especially lowering thereof. BANNED.
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Discussions/debates regarding the boundary between legal definition of a child/minor and an adult. Conditionally acceptable.
Want to debate voting age? Military enlistment age? Entering a legally binding contract? Gambling/drinking age? Go for it. But as pertains to "can legally consent to sexual activity", see the previous point regarding discussions about age of consent.
Tinhampton wrote:Reploid Productions wrote:Discussion/debate regarding age of consent laws, especially lowering thereof. BANNED.
[...]
Discussions/debates regarding the boundary between legal definition of a child/minor and an adult. Conditionally acceptable.
Want to debate voting age? Military enlistment age? Entering a legally binding contract? Gambling/drinking age? Go for it. But as pertains to "can legally consent to sexual activity", see the previous point regarding discussions about age of consent.
Above quote edited by myself for brevity. I do not have a problem with the wording of the actual legal-definition-of-adulthood clarification (i.e. not in bold). Why, however, is it marked up as "Conditionally acceptable" rather than "PERMITTED... mostly" when it appears that the only avenue of discussion explicitly prohibited in the proposed moratorium codification is discussion about the age of consent?
Reploid Productions wrote:Tinhampton wrote:Above quote edited by myself for brevity. I do not have a problem with the wording of the actual legal-definition-of-adulthood clarification (i.e. not in bold). Why, however, is it marked up as "Conditionally acceptable" rather than "PERMITTED... mostly" when it appears that the only avenue of discussion explicitly prohibited in the proposed moratorium codification is discussion about the age of consent?
Good point, that is a bit of an artifact from the original draft. I'll fix that in the officially posted version.
Speaking of which, given discussion seems to have died down and from the conversation folks broadly seem pretty satisfied with the current iteration, probably should start wrapping this up. Figure I'll leave the thread open another couple days, and barring any earth-shaking new developments get it tacked onto the OSRS sometime this weekend. Thanks everyone for your contributions to the discussion, it has been very helpful.
Tornado Queendom wrote:The "COVID misinformation" slog of a rule leads to the return of another Moratorium. Of course.
It's to avoid attracting a specific subset of those people, namely people who try to normalize the sexualization of minors. The opposite side of that particular debate isn't the problematic side.
My entire point is that they're not the issue and we shouldn't pretend there's any moral or rules-based equivalency
It doesn't serve the community at all to countenance "maybe sixteen year olds should be sexualized."