Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4715590-20131031211355/@comment-4750363-20131109230217

Necro the thing is...

...before the rule existed, we all relied on people's dignity and common sense. And it did work for a long time! Months. They were simpler times, hah. Weeks went without anything sexual worth warning.

Sadly...things reached a point where everything started to turn into an abuse of the freedom there was, sexual-themes-related. The point where one had to ask over and over and over to not to do it. And they weren't exactly newbies the ones doing it, either. Trusted people, people who had been in the chat for a good while, were 90% of the population who did it.

I can say I tried to defuse things to avoid a rule like this one to happen. I kept asking, and told people that if it kept going, a rule would sprout. There was even a temporal one, to give an example of what could come. Yet nothing happened. Things continued as they had been going. Several regular users started talking to me, and commented that the abundant sexual talk were making them thinking about leaving the chat.

So, 90% of the Administrators and Moderators got fed up with the constant sexual talk that was now happening. The rule was created.

Sadly...I can't really say that things are in a state where trusting again in people's self-confidence and dignity is the right thing to do. It is mostly trusting into the Moderators and Administrators' actions to deter sexual talk.

I have, personally, a plan with this rule: if chat shows that they can behave themselves, that things can go back to as they were before, and that people will rely on their dignity again, the rule will be removed.