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[Slothy]

I think that enforcing these rules under threat of banning is a little extreme, but then again, nudity doesn't offend me. Is there any reason we have to go to such lengths to prevent this kind of stuff? Blatant spamming of pornography is one thing but if someone posts nudity once, does it necessarily warrant exile from the forums? I guess I'm also calling into question whether it's a perma or temp ban. Temp ban I'd be for, I suppose. Gotta have some disciplinary action somehow.

That being said, I'm glad that we've retained the family friendly atmosphere here. While it doesn't offend me, I'd certainly prefer to not see NCG's set changed to a portrait shot of male genitalia when Psy deems he needs to be punished.

This is a good point, and one I hadn't considered when I made my thread this morning (I was in a hurry and grabbed the nudity rule because it let me make a thread with that delightfully redundant title). Discussion!

Anyway, perhaps the issue of punishment is one which should be revisited. I'd agree with the idea that someone should be punished, but I think Shorty may be on to something with regard to lessening the severity. Like you said, porn is one thing (and something which is generally, and luckily, quite obvious to all), but simple nudity is another matter. Not to say we should allow it, but perhaps context and content should be taken into account to warrant a warning, or perhaps a drunk tanking on a first offense and perhaps a longer term ban for a second? Porn can continue to carry the permaban.

An image that implies sexual acts, regardless of whether or not it actually shows them, will also get you banned.

I do think that this is an outdated part of the rule, if anything. By this logic, I would be unable to post pictures me using my Shake Weight, which has really boosted my upper arm strength since I've begun using it.

I guess this does tread on a grey area and it comes back to the question raised in Bleys thread of how family friendly we want/need the forum to be. I agree this part of the rule could result in punishing things which are perfectly innocent (and quite hilarious), and certainly no worse than people normally see on evening (or even daytime?) TV, let alone half the sites on the internet.

I understand why we'd want to keep the forum family friendly: we're something of a fairly civil anomaly in the cesspool that is the internet and gaming forums in particular. But many of us are over the age of 18. Some by a far wider margin than others. Maybe we do need to take a serious look at each of the rules and decide if we want to loosen them up a bit since most of us really are adults here.