I'd "censor" the KKK rally via driving a 1974 Dodge Monaco ex-Cop car at them. While on a mission from God, of course.
Discussing transsexuals, being racist, and shunning mainstream isn't hardly the same as blocking porn, child porn, and shutting down arguments made for the sake of arguing. As long as the discussion is on topic, I've allowed that to happen before. Most I'll do is split a topic, and move into a more approriate forum (such as "off-topic", where everything else seems to go).
Cable TV can air anything they want at risk to advertising revenue and almost any child has access to basic cable channels. If one chose to air questionable material, would you ask for it to be taken off or take steps to moderate your child's ability to view it? This is the difference in philosophy when it comes to moderation.
Wrong. Ask the FCC. Basic Cable won't show nudity, excessive violence (though what is excessive and what isn't has changed over the years) or porn. If they did, they'd be liable to fines. You have to move up to premium packages, which often show at most softcore nudity, and then only during very late hours (when 99% of kids are in bed).
TV is also not the internet; where kids often know vastly more about the systems used to access it than their parents. On the internet, a hidden taskbar, a quick hotkey, and a extra browser open and little johnny can be right in front of mommy and daddy, looking at the porn you posted to the codex forums.
I've moderated many a forum and feel that sometimes letting the line blur allows deeper, more fulfilling discussion with the downside of adding more difficulty to the moderator's job to keep it civil. If one really cares about their community, they will go that extra step to keep all lines open, so to speak and learn to adapt to the community rather than having it conform to their personal viewpoints on different "touchy" subjects.
You've shown you really don't know what line is which.
I would assume if one did not want their children reading a certain forum one would do better to monitor their children, especially their internet surfing. Logically, there has to be an environment for adults to let loose of the "child appropriate" discussion handcuffs and the Codex serves this purpose, admittedly almost too well. Codex's registration age is 13, while we can all agree it is not a PG-13 forum, so maybe by bumping the age requirement would minimize some issue people have with it? If you are forewarned of the mature nature one could hardly complain about what they find within.
Minimum age reqs are worthless. All it takes is altering your birth year and not telling anyone on the forums about it. The best forum I've seen with dealing iwth it while allowing such stuff to be posted is a FPS community forum, where only the admin allows access to the sub-forum where that's allowed. We all know each other pretty well, so the kiddies never get in there.
See above for parental guidance. The kid likely can disable any "parental controls" more easily than they can be set, assuming they even work. It's absurdly easy to hide what you are doing on a computer; just ask anyone whose played Quake at work. A pair of headphones, a few tweaks. Heck, Ubuntu has multiple workspaces, so little Johnny could have his porn on one workspace, a game on another. And no one can be there every second.
I may be in the minority but I found the misdirecting tubgirl links hilarious, but then again I don't take myself or my internet experience too seriously. It's a laugh and then move on. For what it's worth, they, at least at one time, were really cutting down on false hotlinking making it a bannable offense.
Misdirecting links I view as a danger. Too many viruses and trojans, and no anti-virus or firewall can catch everyone. I catch anyone misdirecting links, for whatever reason, and their account is suspended for admin review, or if it's my forum, banned. Spambots use that tactic. It also means that any parent might look at the site, think it's ok, then Johnny clicks a link that claimed to be to some game site, and went to a porn site, or worse. I've had to go back and fix computers because of misdirecting links on forums, that little johnny clicked innocently.
While many view the Codex as a cesspool, you have to realize that many at the Codex view other forums, including this one, as "kiddie glove" forums. The Codex sees itself as extreme dodgeball and sees other forums as invisible jump-rope (or whatever nonsense our Public School System is pushing out this week..). I prefer knowing any discussion is exactly what the poster feels without feeling the need to tip-toe around the subject. Being in-your-face and honest has a strange feeling of.. purity.
It's a matter of taste, as all things.
The fact that your forum deliberately posts misdirecting links, often to porn (which also screws up the kid-safe part as well; fake links little Johnny thinks lead to a new game lead to some gangbang website instead), and even more often to malware and viruses (which again, no protective software can ever catch all of it). THAT is at issue. Not on-topic discussions, nor letting people air their opinions out freely. They can do that here, just as easily.
The codex is more a highly inferior forum, hiding beneath vain claims of "maturity" when it's little more than middle school toilet humor and mentally 12 year olds leeching porn and spam; with a few good discussions mixed in on occasion. It's not a matter of taste (unless it's a lack thereof). No competent forum disallows full discussion, but also no competent forum would tolerate such nonsense as porn links hidden behind fake tags. Nor threats, which are often taken very seriously. Hell, my uncle; a police officer, told me I should have reported when someone threatened to shoot me one time on a forum.
The codex has a feeling of idiocy mixed with incredible immaturity. Still, you'd be welcome on my forums or the ones I moderate, provided you followed the rules.
