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- shapesalad-1
Censorship blah balh.
It's more like this:
A beautiful neighbourhood of elegant town houses are built in the late 1800's. The owners work hard to pay for their houses and enjoy their humble lives. They have good values, morals and look after each other... The neighbourhood is desirable, liveable, it looks pleasant, calm, cared for.
Gradually time passes...
The cost to maintain the houses rises and the residents grow old, their children move on... The houses are still valuable, young couples move in and renovate them, and the cycle continues...
Except for one house, which falls into an almost ruined state, needing a new roof, etc... it's sold at auction. To a buy-to-let builder. He sets his crew to work on it, splitting it up into bedsits. He then rents it to the council and earns a nice yield.
However the council houses the disaffected there, and the once peaceful neighbourhood starts to see an increase in anti-social behaviour. An older resident is mugged, another burgled.. etc...
Time passes...
The young families that renovated the old houses are now old themselves... and move on... the houses are increasingly being bought up by buy-to-let landlords. Crime has increased. Graffiti tagging is everywhere. No one cares for the front gardens. There's trash blowing about and needles in the gutter...
Young couples look at the houses, but are put off by the 'vide' of the neighbourhood.
Time passes..
Eventually, the once lovely cared for neighbourhood is simply a ghetto and there's big talk on the local news of pulling it all down and rebuilding it as social housing or selling the land off to help pay off the council deficit.
The NSFW content on QBN is like that first buy-to-let landlord.
I've known QBN since the more design focused Newstoday era.
Frankly QBN is a bit embarrassing in the last few years. Chick/butt/boob of the day / is far too frequently at the top the list in the side bar.
It puts people off, and soon qbn will be nothing but a repository of filth. Nothing to do with Design.
It's not about 'censorship'. It's about creating a good neighbourhood.
I'm guilty of posting some fairly unpleasant things in the past, opinions I normally keep to myself and disregard, and certainly wouldn't post anywhere else on the web... but when you see the NSFW content around here, somehow it 'encourages' a change in mindset.
So I'd be supper happy to see QBN be more creative industry focused.
- "I've known QBN since the more design focused Newstoday era. "
lol, clearly not, in that case. Go have a look way back then - same as it ever was.Nairn - yepGardener
- haha, this place has always been brutal if anything the NSFW threads are a gentrification - building a wall between neighbourhoodskingsteven
- that was only removed because it cost too much to maintain.kingsteven
- I used to think that, but sometimes I get sent back to the start of a thread after a post and 15 years back folk are arguing the same in the commentsPhanLo
- It's just that the names are people who've long since left and got on with their lives. Lol.PhanLo
- I don't remember porn on newstoday. I used to have a personal account, posted my early portfolio on there. Used to look at newstoday at work with no shame.shapesalad
- A lot of the people who post in those threads don't add anything anywhere else, it's like they came here by accident.PhanLo
- Omaha posted more in COTD than any design related places.PhanLo
- COTD wasn't around in the Newstoday era but NT was not more design focused. There have always been a majority of nonsense threads and pointless hostility.CyBrainX
- "I've known QBN since the more design focused Newstoday era. "