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Originally Posted by Ducay
Never went into that thread or knew of the drama before reading this thread, but is the whole issue that there was a thread of sexy ladies and men talking about sexy ladies, and this is somehow supporting sexism?
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Really, if you didn't go into the thread, nor did you actually read the thread discussing YLYL and the other sexism on the board, why voice your opinion here? Read up on what the actual discussion was, and then speak up.
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If so, that's pretty laughable. Look at society as a whole, men, women, everyone is objectified and sex is pervasive throughout our culture. To think deleting the thread is helping society out in any manner is funny given the orders of magnitude of other things that go on on a daily basis. This is a discussion forum, and those whom it offends are free to avoid such discussions (I avoid the religion ones like the plague). All such moderation serves to do is alienate your supporting members by creating a culture of censorship and overmoderation without much reasoning. You're no longer simply moderating illegal or unacceptable behavior, you're trying to mold the discussions and topics to suit your needs.
Now, I may have misunderstood the situation, but thats my take. The better run forums I frequent understand they are a mode of discussion for a group of people, and moderation is limited. Trying to change people through moderation leads only to alienation and further troubles.
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How much honest-to-god
discussion happened in the YLYL thread? It was 90% random nearly NSFW pictures, with a few odd comments thrown in here and there.
Also everyone keeps complaining about wanting the moderators to do more work to heavily monitor that thread just so it could stay around. So you desperately want these people who volunteer their time to keep an eye on CP and babysit all of us, to have more work to do, just so you can more easily look at women in underwear/bikinis?
Trying to encourage people to be slightly more aware of what they're posting/saying/talking about is going to 'alienate' people, and yet you think the regular undercurrent of sexism that flows through a lot of threads on CP (and a whole lot of other places--CP legitimately isn't that bad, and I wouldn't have said anything if the topic wasn't brought up by a mod) doesn't alienate a huge group of people?
I really can't quite get the outrage over a thread full of half (or more) naked women. Pretty sure there are a ton of places on the internet where you can find girly pics.