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Originally posted by Athens
As I mentioned in the OP, we want to maintain a welcoming environment for all of our viewers, whether they're at home, school, work or any public setting. Much of the material in avatars, thread posts and blogs made it difficult for public browsing and tainted the bigger focus of what we're trying to provide as a pop forum.
It's often the case that a loud minority sounds like the vast majority before the dust settles. That said, this isn't a numbers game for us. We made a decision to get rid of the explicit content, and we'll stand by it regardless of the impact on traffic/hits. If anyone finds that these changes break their experience and enjoyment here, they should definitely move to a forum that provides what we're now prohibiting.
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Have the camplains about the explicit content reached an overwhelming level that the new rules were necessary, or, as I suspect, it only bothered a hand full of members close to the administration? Because I can assure you that that is not a big issue for most of the members (the lag issues, for example, really are)
So the change being made for the entire forum is based on a minority complain and the Adms/Mods have absolutely no interest hearing what the majority wants or thinks. How great.