“If you want to make a historically accurate moon landing sim, you must first model the universe.” -Carl Sagan

Mark my words, someone’s going to make a video game with 100% historical accuracy with this.

he sure is an antichrist

He is anti-Christ.

The problem is that it says it in the same general section that it talks about how to treat your slaves and things, so it’s really kind of ridiculous to cherry pick this one thing as something we should uphold today while ignoring everything else.

Never been to Germany, but this makes me want to go, not going to lie.

This would unironically be awesome at the end of a cosmic horror themed campaign. Some elder god the PCs have antagonized turns to the players and addresses them directly - not their characters, but the players - in a fourth-wall-breaking moment, acknowledging their existence and directly threatening them. Then the DM breaks out health and sanity bars for everyone at the table, and starts ticking off damage on them.

Haha… Yeeaaah, I suspect this instance might have a somewhat higher concentration of those folks than the average.

I don’t know… I know quite a few folks whom I’m sure would be into that.

I mean, also the way he imagines, really, if I’m interpreting his poorly worded statement correctly. ‘The Government’ (that is to say, Trump) should be held accountable for instigating J6… but so should everyone who participated.

I have a bucket, but not a cow. Pretty sure someone with a cow but no bucket is closer to being ready to milk a cow than I am.

Cheers, mate. New wording is great, IMO.

I suppose that’s what I’m afraid of. We’ve done just fine without having an (enforced) rule governing it up until now, and the community hasn’t devolved into anything. I think we’ve all experienced cases in the past where a new mod has come into an existing community, started to enforce the rules in different ways, and it’s caused the dynamic of the community to change. We have a good thing here, right now; it’s (IMO) the best of the ‘Comic’ related communities on Lemmy; I just don’t want to see that change because of some overzealous censorship.

If you look back through the past few months, upvotes/downvotes are a pretty good indicator of what’s good content and what’s not. Beep’s posts that specifically omit attribution get downvoted; there’s sexist boomer humor comics that got downvoted; the few NSFW comics that got posted were upvoted. Body shaming, negativity… all downvoted. Can we perhaps just use community sentiment as the benchmark, except in cases where something is clearly an off-the-rails violation?

Woah, look at Satan over here trying to corrupt the youth with his raunchy comics. Glad we had someone on deck to remove that before anyone saw it.

Graphic content of any kind will not be tolerated. This includes gore, pornography, or violence.

This still edges out Oglaf, as well as some of the other things that have been posted even within the last few weeks. “Violence” is also extremely open-ended. Is someone slapping someone else violence? Is Lucy pulling the football out before Charlie Brown kicks it violence? Is Snoopy pretending to be the Red Baron violence? Even on a very generous interpretation, ‘violence’ edges out a lot of comics that both have historically been allowed and would by any reasonable metric be fine for anyone old enough to use Lemmy to view.

Edit: Maybe it would help if you pointed out some things that have been posted in the last month or two that you would consider to be in violation of this rule? If there are none, then we probably don’t even need to be having this discussion.

As a point of interest, it’s been a very long time since there was an active moderator here; anyone could have posted anything and it would have stayed up, and yet… it hasn’t happened. The sub has been fairly clean and organized, with only the occasional, I’d argue tasteful, adult-oriented comic. None of us want it to devolve into a cesspit of low-effort NSFW content; we just want the status quo that has been passively established to be maintained.

I just quickly scanned for NSFW tags, so I’m sure I missed some that’re not pornographic but would be disallowed under the strictest interpretation of this rule.

I agree, though, that things that have been getting posted should be allowed to continue, while extreme pornography (or an excessive devolution towards being a strictly NSFW community) should not be allowed.

Sure, but the original rule was not being enforced. Presumably given that we have an active mod, now, you’re planning to enforce the rules. Basically all I’m saying is, I’d prefer that the content that has been getting posted be allowed to continue to be posted. Nobody’s looking for hardcore pornography, but the occasional risque comic should (IMO) not cause problems, as they haven’t been for quite some time.

👶 Keep it at PG/PEGI 7

Can we add an ‘unless tagged NSFW’ addendum to this? There’s plenty of quality NSFW things that get posted here (e.g. Oglaf comics) and I for one would be sad to see them go (or to have to create a new community for those things).

Edit: To add to this, looking back at post history, it looks like we get about 1 NSFW post per week here, give or take. Have those really been problematic enough to warrant a ban (when appropriately tagged?)

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This is great. This is his new name in my head.

That’s weirdly specific, but I hope you understand why looking for 10, 13 and 17 year olds to go chat with you on Session is a HUGE red flag. What the fuck is wrong with you?