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[TheChosen1]

OK.. thanx for clearing some of the stuff up. Now i wont swear "Since a 7 year old kid might get it from me" Also I dont no anyone that's 9 or older that hasn't sworn, seen porn or stuff like that. Also y do u care? It's their choice if they want to post in a "orgy" thread like that. Thats wat i hate about some people they set limtis for their kids and crap. like for eg. i saw this msn comercial about parent control and stuff, it was set teens 9-12! Bull**** how could they possibly know wat some kids 9-12 can go to or not. SAme thing here y do u care if they go threads like this, and the family forum par i dont get. Maybe i just missed the point. About the computers and that it screws them up i cant argue with that because i truly dont no. Also If threads like this caused major problems before then i also understand. But i have recommended this forum to people because o thought that it wasnt just boring old vg discussion... i guess i was wrong. Thanx to people who have agreed with me especially hootenanny because i started this thread because of the love story thread thread. and i will still post on EOFF but i'll go look for a forum that is more open to content like this. But cmon i saw my first porno when i was 7 its not the middle ages any more and just a boring love story would be dum it needs a little ogyness in it! And if u care about conent then u shud have said this board is from ages 8 to 10 because i cud care less if any1 swears. Thanx again to every1 who was with me and just my closing words Purgatory u r the 1st letter of fire, the 2nd letter of water, and the 1st letter of guy. figure it out if u can ! LOL LOL LOL LOL

[edczxcvbnm]

You know what is really messed up. This is supposed to be a family forum based on games that are rated T for teen and not E for Everyone. That means everyone here should be 13 and up which means we should be able to do all this stuff.

I just wanted to say that because if finally just clicked with me and made me go "HEY! Thats what has been so off about their arguement which I could never quite put my finger on."

[HOOTERS]

I never thought I'd say this but...




...I think I'm starting to like Aiyon better.

[Del Murder]

*reads the above three posts*

The system works.

[m4tt]

Originally posted by TheChosen1
But cmon i saw my first porno when i was 7 its not the middle ages any more and just a boring love story would be dum it needs a little ogyness in it!

So you saw it last year? Good for you.

my closing words Purgatory u r the 1st letter of fire, the 2nd letter of water, and the 1st letter of guy. figure it out if u can ! LOL LOL LOL LOL

You think you are still going to post at eoff? Maybe I should just get rid of you before Purgatory gets a chance to get to you.

[Leeza]

The only post that could possibly be considered a love story in that thread was the first post, from there it just turned into another teen hormonefest that comprises most of the internet today.

This is supposed to be a family forum based on games that are rated T for teen and not E for Everyone. That means everyone here should be 13 and up which means we should be able to do all this stuff. - ed

I think that Red answered all of these agruements quite well. ...if you want freedom of speech there are plenty of other message boards out there that are completely unmoderated. Personally, I like the idea of the limits of tastefulness being enforced.

I don't think that it's so much about this being a family forum as much as it's about a forum that has some taste, and the stuff posted in that thread certainly didn't have any in my opinion. I'm glad that we have staff that can tell the difference.

EDIT: You're just too quick for me, ;D. And I see that he's already banned. Good job.

[crono_logical]

Originally posted by Leeza
I don't think that it's so much about this being a family forum as much as it's about a forum that has some taste, and the stuff posted in that thread certainly didn't have any in my opinion. I'm glad that we have staff that can tell the difference.

Don't forget morals - there's a heck of lot of that missing in western society these days, let alone across much of the internet, so it's nice there's somewhere on the net (e.g. these forums) that still has some, or tries to stay that way.

[Spatvark]

Originally posted by edczxcvbnm
You know what is really messed up. This is supposed to be a family forum based on games that are rated T for teen and not E for Everyone. That means everyone here should be 13 and up which means we should be able to do all this stuff.

Just wanted to say one last thing; this site follows COPPA guidelines and as such, most members are indeed aged 13 and onwards. But what's the legal age of consent then? In the UK it's 16, three years ABOVE the COPPA guideline age. So, those three years worth of forum members is what we need to protect from the likes of you pervs =P

[Shlup]

Originally posted by Hootenanny
I never thought I'd say this but...




...I think I'm starting to like Aiyon better.

Aiyon has far less members to attempt to control too though. I admit that the place can be moer fun 'cause someone can make a retarded thread without a couple thousand people following suit, which I think is the main difference between this board and any smaller board, and it sucks but it's something I have to deal with the same as you.

And I don't know why this was closed, but I think members should be able to post their opinions a bit more on this. I don't think this issue is quite as cut-and-dry as some other people seem to (which is fine, not critisizing you), especially considering that many people are saying the thread was closed because it was "tasteless" which is extremely subjective. I also thought ed's last arguement was pretty valid.

[Big Ogre Umaro]

Originally posted by Purgatory
Just wanted to say one last thing; this site follows COPPA guidelines and as such, most members are indeed aged 13 and onwards. But what's the legal age of consent then? In the UK it's 16, three years ABOVE the COPPA guideline age. So, those three years worth of forum members is what we need to protect from the likes of you pervs =P

Actually, there's nothing stopping a ten year-old from lying and getting around the COPPA stuff, or from viewing threads without registering. But I honestly believe the ratio of young children to big vulgar kids is so overwhelming that it shouldn't really matter. The whole "family board" think is a cover to keep out a wide variety of lame crap that you see on other message boards.

I personally think that the "drama" that goes on around here is more damaging than any pointless crap thread, but that's me.

And good call about the small board/big board stuff, Mandee. There's no way a big board with a lot of people will ever beat a small board with all your friends. That's impossible, and we'll never aspire to do that. EoFF is a biggish place where you meet a lot of people and maybe meet new people and maybe talk about stuff and maybe have fun. It can't be all things to all people, and it never tries to be. Aiyon and the other spin-off boards are awesome to the people who go. But if Aiyon ever got huge (BoBo won't let that happen, but IF), it'd start to have all kinds of drama and wusses posting lame crap about how the board "should" be run and just a lot of people saying a lot of stupid things. That's how that works out.

[edczxcvbnm]

Originally posted by ShlupQuack
I also thought ed's last arguement was pretty valid.

Who would have thought that one would have happened?

Anyways, from what I understand COPPA is mainly to make sure this site doesn't take a kid's name and blah blah blah with out the parents consent. What does that have to do with those kind of 'pointless' threads? I read about some of it but got bored reading the COPPA guidelines :P

Thank you for opening this thread back up Shlup. I was afraid it would turn into one of those situation where the MODs decided to abuse their power like they were. I don't have a problem with that when it is all in good fun but in this case it wasn't.

[The Man]

Originally posted by BOU
But if Aiyon ever got huge (BoBo won't let that happen, but IF), it'd start to have all kinds of drama and wusses posting lame crap about how the board "should" be run and just a lot of people saying a lot of stupid things. That's how that works out.

I find that if you have someone dedicated to LAYIN DOWN THE LAW at a board, it generally works out, especially if you tell the people who can't live with the way the board is being run to learn to live with it or sod off. But yeah, the larger a message board gets, the more drama it contains. Unless it's FFWA, in which case it contains more drama than every other message board in the history of man combined.

[Big Ogre Umaro]

Not sure if you were disagreeing with me or not...

[The Man]

Both, sort of. I'm basically saying that BoB has the right to say how the board should be run and if he gets overrun with idiots trying to tell him otherwise, he can tell them to piss off. That's what I'd do. That's where I disagree with you, anyway. =P The rest of it... yeah, when a board gets bigger, you generally need more rules. Which sucks. But whatyagonnado.

[Big Ogre Umaro]

So... I don't tell idiots to piss off? Orr, I don't think BoBo has the right to tell idiots to piss off?