Board Thread:Chat Discussion/@comment-25393922-20141021040515/@comment-25393922-20141021084625

Weirdozzy wrote: Steam Phoenix wrote: ChaoZStrider wrote: This should be a purposal, not an attention. This rule change was not voted upon Why do I need to propose something that should be common sense? Don't get me wrong; I love having community decisions. But this is something that needed put to a stop. Because you're not a Bcrat and you don't have the right to just make up rules as you see fit. The fact you feel this amount of entitlement to your opinion shows very poor leadership qualities. You should understand that just because you announce something in a "professional" tone, does not make it a rule. I can agree some of these jokes are unneeded, I am not supporting this, but you simply "announcing" that these are now rules is pretty stupid on your part.

On top of that, the amount of Free Speech limitations I have seen come underway are starting to dabble into the Ray Bradbury side of things, and for those of you who have passed High School I hope you will understand this reference.

It's literally just like when the whole Brony craze swept through this place and Cleric and I had to figure out rules to keep things in balance between asking Bronies (including me at the time) to not talk about Brony related subject matter in chat, but at the same time trying not to cause backlash because of limiting the users ability to simply chat. We comprimised and made a rule together about the issue, but that was quite a long time ago, and I can certainly understand things have changed now. I don't feel any form of entitlement. I downright stated that I felt I had to do things the way I did them. I didn't say I was entitled or even comfortable doing so. Quite the opposite. I don't like doing things in a way like this.

Also, Callie. You are just an admin, not a bcrat. Simply adding a chat rule without a vote is, too put it simply, idiotic. You are one admin, you can't just announce rule changes. From what I've seen, you are barely in chat as it is so why does it bother you? Chat is the moderators concern, not the admins. You said this yourself on Thiago's mod app. I think it would be the better idea to let the chat mod handle the chat rules and the chat rule proposals as it is in our line of work, it is what we are to focus on, according to you. Chat is a secondary thing for admins.

It bothers me because it bothers other people.

It bothers me because it causes drama and makes people unhappy.

It bothers me because I didn't sit on Spinpasta for a month bragging about the maturity of chat users for people to start being idiots.

It bothers me because contrare to what you just said, I am on chat often.

It bothers me because these kind of things are what got the chat shut down in the first place.

But frankly, I give no more shits. I'm going to go out on a limb and say "fuck it," because once again trying to please others has done absolutely nothing but merit accusations of corruption and power abuse and "personal gain." Seriously, what the fuck would me making this rule accomplish for me personally? How in the hell would this benefit me personally? I don't get offended by stupid jokes. What would the bad things be provided the job was done right? Is there some nuclear bomb that's going to drop because TomDickMcgee can't sit there and joke about jews anymore?

But like I said, I'm done. I'm not doing this. If chat wants to circlejerk and get shut down again, let it.