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CarolinaCan
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I'm curious as to why this forum has rules that make it "clean" enough for very young children despite the game itself being rated Teen?
It's like you can't talk about anything on here.
It's like you can't talk about anything on here.
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I'm not being rude just curious
Also, some of it could be that pre-teens are certainly capable of opening an account in here. There is no age verification process and in fact one need not even own a copy of the game to participate. Or it could be that they want to be proactive in keeping this site from becoming a verbal free-for-all like Facebook, et al. Also one may not divulge one's age, use any real photos of themselves or divulge personal information on the public boards.
Just my thoughts. I imagine an administrator or moderator might chip in with a better, "official" answer.
Some people can be offended by certain topics or phrases no matter what age they are.
The usual rule breaking and moderation I see happening (at least in the Sims 4 areas) involves either insulting other Simmers, or nercro posting in old threads. Not sure what the big issue is in either case.
I mostly agree and I actually like how curse words are censored to "plum," it's cute. I write "plum" automatically when I'm here. Literally the only thing I can imagine discussing that's taboo would be NSFW mods. I never use mods so I've never looked for anyone discussing them here, but I've watched a few videos and they're plumming funny. I assume a fair minority of players like them. It'd be super difficult to discuss them here though. Can I even post the phrases "prostitution mod" or "drug dealer mod" or "🐸🐸🐸🐸"? My apologies if I'm being inappropriate; just curious.
ehhh, mostly what I'm referring to is that the off topic board is like 90% games. No real discussions and I've been afraid to start any because the rules on here are pretty tight and I get the feeling I'd break a rule with any discussion that would lead to any good conversation, since almost anything that has any substance could be considered "controversial"
Exactly. And it for safety of all people. But I believe that some people that are under 12 have their parents sign a forum. It was that way on Vbulletin when I used to do moderation on a forum. But don't know if that applies to this forum or not.
The site traffic was very high, I used to get 1000 notifications per week. It literally took me a day to become a member. There was a lot of nsfw stuff being posted by trolls at the time plus bot attacks now & then. It was sorta a toxic environment at the time but the energy was sorta amazing. I miss a lot of the members that have moved on since.
The forum now is just a jaded shell.
Which ones though?
On the topic of discussions itself I feel it's fair ground as it stands.
It would be nice to see some rules being relaxed but the minute things get too soft then trolls will come back with force and we would end up with even more rules than before
I have closed this thread as I feel this will end up going in circles. But I did want to address a few points:
- Rules - everything has rules and in public space they are very much needed. If you feel that some rules are too strict, please put forward your argument against that rule in a constructive private message to myself or any of the moderation team. We are open to feedback and reviewing things, but public discussions on rules tend to go sideways fast, so let's keep it to PM's
- The smut filter (the plum filter) - as I have said before, we are open to reviewing entries in the filter. Send me PM if you feel a word that is getting filtered shouldn't be. Please do keep in mind that we have to take into consideration that some words have different meanings in different cultures and therefor need to stay in the filter.
- New users - we recently relaxed the requirements for new members becoming full members significantly. We are keeping an eye on the situation and if needed we can review this again at a later date.
Thank you all,-Mage