Family Meeting
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- colin_s1
This seems to me to be an issue of precedent setting. Short of a declared list of rules, forum engagement is predominantly a social contract. If there's no common understanding as to why pornography is or isn't allowed (and under what, if any, circumstances), it'll probably lead to those ideas being tested (by force or just the passage of time).
Is it an outright ban on NSFW content , is it a "mods are tired" deal... I think all that people are looking for is the established baseline of what system exists (and, if possible, knowing why).
Personally I always thought having porn content here was strange. For one, it seemed completely off-brand for a design forum that tries to be at least semi-conscious of humanity? And for two, the amount there was seemed a bit ... excessive. But I do like that it was always contained to a couple threads that I could just ignore, and I can see the risks of ending it all without any sort of nod to what isn't or isn't acceptable.
I'm fine with removal but would only suggest some type of "moving forward, here is a baseline system" established rule set. There have been plenty of posters over the years who have gone to great extent to kind of push boundaries, so it seems removing something without acknowledging how to move forward is the riskiest path.
- I'll subscribe to your magazine.SteveJobs
- Don't need a strong description of what QBN is, just more rigidity around what it isn'tcannonball1978
- scarabin10
I support qbn and whatever decision they make.
You guys have already seen my glass-flattened penis collection and I have other sources for close-up butthole shots so there’s really nothin’ to lose
- Bennn5
I think those who are offended by those threads stopped visited them a while ago. But I understand the lack of ressources to moderate them, is there that much moderation going on in these threads?
- ESKEMA3
Banning and hiding and censoring always gets you good results right?
- ESKEMA1
Censorship won. Maybe it's time we part ways. Everything comes to an end and my relationship with this site is each day more painful than the last one. I'll seek the future instead of holding on to the past.
- bye felicia?monospaced
- but really, the loss of a nudie thread is "painful?" really?monospaced
- it's not about the content, rather the actionESKEMA
- *yawnmonospaced
- T H E D R A M A
It's tits and ass on messageboard, not burning books. Wind your fucking neck in.face_melter - T H A P A I Ngarbage
- cherub0
I don't like to be serious on here, spoils the mood of the place.
Hmmm... should I say it?
- elahon2
I'm in favor of ditching them. Unless there's an easy way to mark a thread NSFW and put an option at the user-settings level to show or hide NSFW threads? That way we could self-censor as necessary.
People that post NSFW shit in a non-NSFW thread should be dealt with accordingly if that's to be made into a new policy.
- “ Post belligerent or vulgar things at your own risk.” Not exactly a new policy.monospaced
- I forgot about that line. "at your own risk." is open to interpretation, though. Something less vague is what I mean. "Don't post NSFW shit or you're gone!"elahon
- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯elahon
- I've got other places to look at pics of tits, dicks, and gross shit.elahon
- And not creepy omaha pics. Ew. Those alone would be worth deleting the threads, haha.elahon
- Lolmonospaced
- Continuity0
o hai guise.
What did I miss?
- scarabin7
What if we set the nsfw threads so they don’t bump in the left menu when posts are made? Anyone interested in participating in these threads would just bookmark them and carry on as usual, they would just essentially be invisible threads. No history would be lost and new users looking for design content won’t be scared off.
This kind of thinking already has a precedent here with our “prevent this reply from appearing on the cover” box (keeping things nice for visitors), we’re just extending the most extreme of it to include not appearing in the menu as well.
- OR delete them all and give us one invisible thread strictly for trash. The backroom or basement of QBNscarabin
- Then people would put dead bodies in the basement.cherub
- that's not a bad idea, QBN already has a basement :)sted
- Yes, this is exactly the suggestion I've been making for yonks now. Some threads already have this functionality.Nairn
- That would require working on the site. Easier to just delete and sip latte.ESKEMA
- @ESK - there are shitloads of threads that can be posted in that don't bump into the sidebar already. It wasn't intentional, but it's happened.Nairn
- Is there still a lift from the moderator team with this approach? this thread started with that seemingly being the concern. couldn't pay me enough to mod nsfwSteveJobs
- I think we’re largely a self-moderated place these days. We’re really good at categorizing and keeping stuff in the appropriate threadsscarabin
- Even our nsfw stuff is already neatly organized. We just don’t know what to do with itscarabin
- I think the issue is trying to appear credible to outsiders with boxes of smut in the living room. Let’s just put it in the basement so we can have visitorsscarabin
- With no visitors it’s just us sitting in our smut yelling at each other over the same shit we’ve been arguing about for two decadesscarabin
- NSFW is lamecanoe
- Calderone20000
I feel like QBN keeps it pretty civilised if we're talking about the NSFW stuff
- The tame softporn on QBN is nothing compared to what I've seen yayhooray post over the years.cherub
- goddamn that's a name i haven't heard in years...Calderone2000
- yayhooray... that's from the K10K daysCalderone2000
- they wont let google index them... if that begins to tell you how foul that forum is...cherub
- and QBN is worried about to deflated college coed titties being posted... are you serious?cherub
- Whataboutismi_monk
- garbage-1
I'm of two minds on this.
Having these threads gives off sour vibes for potential new members because they are totally unnecessary and having BOOBS OF THE DAY isn't a good first impression. It's not 2010, and it just seems childish and superfluous.
On the other hand, I've been around for over a decade (former name: snarl), which is long enough to know that there will be a spillover into other threads because we have an inextinguishable contingent of users with debatable mental stability that will start shitposting out of spite if the threads are closed.
I think the threads should be phased out, but there should be an option to have them seen, and that should be a buried opt-in for new users.
Followup question that I know won't be answered: Hi QBN, who the fuck are you?
- LOL at that question :D this way please:
http://web.archive.o…sted - Damn, I was hoping for reptilian overlords.garbage
- LOL at that question :D this way please:
- zarkonite7
Before we had those threads we had NSFW/L content popping up randomly all over the place.
I'm all for keeping it clean but what's the plan when that starts happening again?
I also think forcing Simon to post in the NSFW thread was an insult to the quality of his work.
- Agreed on the Simon thing. His work isn't smut for smut's sake.garbage
- MHDC6
So where are we posting our testicles?
- your mom's chin?monospaced
- :)monospaced
- FedEx says "in transit"mort_
- lolGuyFawkes
- sarahfailin3
but can we bring back the penis and/or vagina of the day thread? I thought that was great.
- cherub2
I didn't want to be serious but here goes...
I don't pay anything to use the site. As much entertainment as I get out of the NSFW threads, if it helps keeps the lights on, sure go ahead delete them. I guess you are taking a conservative approach.
No problem here, there is plenty of porn on the web, it's not like this was the only place to find it. Could find porn literally anywhere.
What I really like about QBN. This is a "family meeting" ha
- uh does QBN have revenues? are there ads I don't see? is QBN selling my personal data to giant corporations??!sarahfailin
- "Made with ❤️ by krop" http://www.krop.com/…cherub
- shapesalad2
Dark mode?
- I upvoted but consider there are a lot of old people here, might be too much for their eyesgrafician