[Suggestion] Ban Religious Threads

[Avani]

Read the sticky thread in General Discussion section before making such a thread again. :|

Banned topics:

• Religion based threads and that means truly everything related directly to religion as it has been proven over and over again that people can't discuss this in a rational way without starting to flame or causing people to flame (and that means both people who do believe in the existence of a god/gods and those who do not)
• Threads to talk about one specific member or members (which is most of the time done with an insulting intention).
• Threads to single out a specific group of members on NB and this mainly refers to everything 'fanboy' related. This also means things like 'who has got the most fanboys', 'who is the biggest fanboy' and also threads that go against this entire fanboy issue, the intention is appreciated, but having 10 of such threads around is annoying too and they have rarely any effect.
• Mod-bashing threads for obvious reasons (not that these were ever allowed), but also threads to ask who is your favourite mod or the best mod and such stuff. Once again the intention is appreciated, but this also attracts people who want to bash the staff. This also includes complaining threads about what a certain mod might have done. If you have an issue with a mod, solve it with the mod himself or go to a smod/admin, but don't start whining about it publicly as that's only going to work against you.

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agreed, religous, sexist and threads concerning gay rights should all be banned as they just turn into flame wars

 

[Don Drama]

Before you ban a so-called "Religous Thread" you must first know what a religious thread is. If the rule will become absolute, this means that any thread that contains names of the Gods will be closed or removed. For instance, a member can report a thread if it speaks about Norse Gods, Ancient Greek Gods, Ancient Egyptian Gods.. so on and so forth.

Even talking about Jesus of Nazareth isn't religious in nature. Jesus's persecution was recorded by the Roman Historians. By definiton, we are talking about history then. But, about Jesus claims that he's the son of God is another story.

Also, talking about gays and lesbians.. it depends! One can still openly talk about death penalty of being a gay during the dark ages.. or even topics during the 70's and 80's where scientist view Homosexuality as an illness. That's part of history and we can't change.

 

[Caliburn]

Religion based threads have been banned unofficially for quite a long time now, around several months. Every time we found one, we closed and/or trashed it. It also has been officially stated recently in the thread Tsuchi mentioned quoted below.

So point of this thread was what as exactly? Sometimes I wonder why we even bother making stickied threads.

Read the sticky thread in General Discussion section before making such a thread again. :|

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