Board Thread:Chat Discussion/@comment-25393922-20141021040515

So, I'm on my sandbox wiki earlier, working on the same piece of fanfiction I've been writing for a week (so far), and suddenly, I get a ping. I come back on to chat, not even aware of what pinged me to find that there's a dramatic moment going on between several users because some one or two people think that joking about women getting raped and babies getting violently murdered (and/or raped) is just absolutely hilarious.

Now, I'm not one for controlling joking. I'm not one to care about the offensiveness of a joke. Others do. Wikia does. Many non-chat users and chat users alike do. This whole "We can joke about anything! Freedom of Speech! MURICA!" has gone too far, and frankly, I'm sick of it. So, here's a list of jokes that will make you suffer a ban for a day:


 * Rape jokes.


 * Dead baby jokes.


 * Racist jokes.


 * Offensive religion jokes.


 * Strong sex jokes.


 * Pedophilic jokes.


 * etc, etc. Basically, if it is well-known to offend someone and is actually offensive, it's a ban.

Let me repeat:

IF YOU MAKE A JOKE THAT IS DEFINED AS AN OFFENSIVE JOKE, YOU WILL BE BANNED FOR A DAY. YOU WILL LOSE THE PRIVILEGE OF CHATTING FOR A DAY.

Now, why am I just straight up making this a rule? Why am I not proposing it? Because:

It's COMMON SENSE. If you know full well it can offend someone, DON'T FUCKING  SAY  IT.

Common sense dictates that if it has the capacity to cause drama, then it is not allowed. Those people who sat over on Spinpasta for a month would rather not have the chat shut down again, and drama causing things are a way to make that happen.

>Well offensive depends on context.

Use your brain, please. If someone finds it offensive and it's obviously a shock-humor offensive joke (IE RAPE?) then it is by all means ban-able and by all means should/will be. We're not going to ban someone for "Why did the chicken cross the road?" so long as the answer doesn't involve something offensive in nature itself.

Now, I'm not going into semantics and arguments. I didn't make this thread to argue or attack. I'm irritated, stressed, and very much annoyed, which is why the tone of this thread is the way that it is. Why didn't I ask a crat?

Because: 1. The crats are hardly interested in chat. 2. It was already a rule. Not a rule I thought would need written down, but apparently I was wrong. I'm only strengthening the penalty and reminding you of the rule in the first place. 3. I don't care about how much I've just ruined your fun, sense of humor, or made the chat a dry, bland, boring desert because you can no longer throw in an unfunny rape joke with your dick and fart jokes. 4. Again, it's common sense. I shouldn't have had to write this thread up in the first place or feel as though I had to step out of the power zone I see myself in to take care of an issue that I shouldn't have had to worry about.

This is a rule, and a thread that should not have had to be put up. So, from now on, (READ: OFFENSIVE) offensive jokes will be met with a one-day ban. No exceptions. 