[Ace Reject]

Oh, and geniuses/genii - you can still have threads like "Ben Cohen SHIRTLESS" or "Nicki showing cake." Viewers know what they're signing up for with those threads. It's when some jive suckers have avatars straight out of Randy Blue or Sean Cody that the smack has to be laid down.

Like, read the original post again.

[Fingerprints]

Originally posted by XIAN

first ARTPOP's sales and now this

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[Losing my ground]

I hope someday we got allowed to say whatever we want without receiving warnings...

[Flame]

Also can we start moderating and banning what we can say on other people's walls now too? I mean you can go on some people's walls and they're talking about SEX. How dirty! I know you can't see it if you google it. Or even if you're not a member, but OMG. We could be thought of a DIRTY site because members are talking on each other's walls in a non-moral way. Eek!

[heartbeats]

Originally posted by iHypeMusic

We can't drag in regular posts or else we're warned, and in SYG you have to deal with those serious stans who stay up all night arguing over who would be forgotten if they died and stans who stayed perched with Billboard, IFPI, Metacritic, and Mediabase open in every tab.

Both sections literally ruin the fun. One is too serious on being strict, one is too serious period.

Blogs was a let go and fun, messy purposely kinda place. #ForTheCrazyKids

very on point

[Ace Reject]

Originally posted by Erik

Yeah, close SYG. I'm all for it!

Would you be saying that if Warrior was successful in any territory?

Just JOSHING. I love you and Kesha, Erik! JUST JOKES PEOPLE.

[Wafflecakes]

Originally posted by AriNikoBradshaw

Necessary for WHAT?

If you don't want to be dragged - don't go to SYG!

If you don't wanna see nudity - don't go to blogs!

I don't think the mods understand that each indivudal person has a brain. I can choose not to view the blogs (as I do!) and I can choose to only visit SYG when I am in the mood for hysterical dragging (as I do!)

Do I have to visit the blogs? Nope. I just don't click there and don't give a **** about what happens there.
Do I have to visit SYG? Nope. I just visit there whenever i feel like it.

What I don't understand is why you block something that is completely optional in the first place. What flawed logic is it to close these areas of the forum when not everyone uses them?

Nobody is forcing anyone to visit the blogs. Nobody is forcing anyone to visit SYG. Taking them down because a few members or mods feel that it isn't the right 'direction' or 'atmosphere' is absolutely ridiculous because GUESS WHAT! You don't have to click on the thread! You don't have to click on the blogs! Is it that hard to understand? Like fore ****s sake just let the people use whatever areas they want and not use whatever areas they don't want.

TBH I have an issue with that point. Blogs are not inherently **** stashes.

There are people who would like to have blogs, but do not since the moment you open that tab you are barraged with erotic mess..... and that is just the blog titles.

No one even really uses them to blog. It is mostly just a bunch of people lying about their sexual exploits.

[Itskorbitch]

Originally posted by heartbeats

I agree about the blogs. feel free to ban the horny middle aged basement dwellers there's always other non-factor forums for that kind of foul language! get that massive gp appeal ATRL

the dirty blogs makes me feel like i'm gonna get STD just by looking at them! thank you mods for being so kind and considerate

is she naked? im sorta offended, not sure if naked or not...

[Auris]

Originally posted by Vespertine

Oh, shut up. That's NOT at all what I said and you know it. If anyone said half the horribly offensive **** they say in the blogs in real life they'd be arrested or have their ass beaten. It's not freedom of expression, it's just downright disgusting. Just because it's online and anonymous doesn't mean you should be able to get away with it--and this is actually something many major sites are moving towards (with news sites switching comments to FB-only and YouTube requesting that people comment under real names).

I'm all for the messiness of ATRL, but if you really can't have a good time without blurting out wildly offensive and archaic slurs + endlessly attacking members in blogs (not very Born This Way of y'all), you have a problem. I don't agree with the graphic/suggestive content being banned from blogs, but that wasn't even the issue with blogs. I'm happy they addressed the actual problem with blogs.

Since when did the Internet turn into Russia?

Anonymity is what keeps the Internet going. Taking that away will only get people enraged.

[SupahBass05]

Originally posted by Ace Reject

Oh, and geniuses/genii - you can still have threads like "Ben Cohen SHIRTLESS" or "Nicki showing cake." Viewers know what they're signing up for with those threads. It's when some jive suckers have avatars straight out of Randy Blue or Sean Cody that the smack has to be laid down.

Like, read the original post again.

Now wait

[Gui Blackout]

Originally posted by Ace Reject

Oh, and geniuses/genii - you can still have threads like "Ben Cohen SHIRTLESS" or "Nicki showing cake." Viewers know what they're signing up for with those threads. It's when some jive suckers have avatars straight out of Randy Blue or Sean Cody that the smack has to be laid down.

Like, read the original post again.

... so basically what it was before. So what the **** is the point of this?

[RainDreamer]

The way things are getting strict is reminding me of Gaga's career. Once loved for how different they were from others, but then started to take themselves too seriously. And then had their Artpop era finally

Originally posted by MiMiLamb

The house that Britney built....
And now the house she got famous from.

Ha ha , this would've been nice if they did it while britney was still the 'it' thing or hadn't got messy herself

[Retro]

Originally posted by AriNikoBradshaw

Necessary for WHAT?

If you don't want to be dragged - don't go to SYG!

If you don't wanna see nudity - don't go to blogs!

I don't think the mods understand that each indivudal person has a brain. I can choose not to view the blogs (as I do!) and I can choose to only visit SYG when I am in the mood for hysterical dragging (as I do!)

Do I have to visit the blogs? Nope. I just don't click there and don't give a **** about what happens there.
Do I have to visit SYG? Nope. I just visit there whenever i feel like it.

What I don't understand is why you block something that is completely optional in the first place. What flawed logic is it to close these areas of the forum when not everyone uses them?

Nobody is forcing anyone to visit the blogs. Nobody is forcing anyone to visit SYG. Taking them down because a few members or mods feel that it isn't the right 'direction' or 'atmosphere' is absolutely ridiculous because GUESS WHAT! You don't have to click on the thread! You don't have to click on the blogs! Is it that hard to understand? Like fore ****s sake just let the people use whatever areas they want and not use whatever areas they don't want.

1) We are not taking down SYG. That was always staying, to my knowledge.

2) We don't want Blogs to even exist as it currently does. As Athens said, we do not want to provide an outlet for ****ography or excessively offensive content at all, and users who want that can leave the site for other options.

[Musickid203]

Originally posted by Stunnah

Are you implying regular users are stupid?

Meanwhile, the normal ATRL user would recieve multiple WPs.

Crazy huh.

[Ace Reject]

Originally posted by Flame

See? That's one thing. That's totally FINE with going away, but in another sense... an avatar with a SOAP dispenser was banned. Like come on. You can be strict, but you can also over do it.

That soap dispenser was meant to symbolize masturbation. You know it. I know it. It's inappropriate.

[Flame]

Originally posted by Ace Reject

Would you be saying that if Warrior was successful in any territory?

Just JOSHING. I love you and Kesha, Erik! JUST JOKES PEOPLE.

Sorry. This is the INTERNET. We can't tell if you're joking or not. WP received.

[Monk]

Watch them restrict PM's too.

[Retro]

Originally posted by Gui Blackout

... so basically what it was before. So what the **** is the point of this?

Blogs and avatars are where the main changes and crackdowns are; the policies on those are what are more strict and different.

[Dollas n Diamonds]

Originally posted by Goosey

It's like Microsoft Xbone (...we have a console for you: it's called Xbox 360) and Google Plus (trying to create intelligent discussion on Youtube comments) combined

you hit the nail on the head

Edit:Opps! i ment on the top

[Vespertine]

Originally posted by lancelovesgaga

How about delete but not perma delete?

I had a blog deleted by Kworb a few months ago () and I can still view it, so maybe that would work for you?