Dear Odd Thought Community

[Cushion]

Who's Treadon ?

kthxbye.

[hoos]

Who the hell is Cushion?

[HellRaiser]

Originally Posted by Sir Brian

I completely accept the reasons behind the merger. And i think it is a good idea.

However, the forum over there is poorl maintained, poorly modded and in itself "out of date". The Terms Of Service, and thus the controlling powers they give the mods; are frankly atrocious. One cannot expect to merge Oddthought with it's tremendous range of freedom of speech, with a "family forum" of such restricting mannor. ClipWire needs to slacken it's rules.

As for the point that they are providing a "family friendly forum"; well they point out to us that they serve for kids as young as 11. This seems very perculiar to me, as the minimum age for MySpace usership is 14. And, if a parent is willing to let a child use MySpace (where these games are based as applications.); then they must clearly realise their children would be open to material of an adult nature - and thus the strict rules imposed on the ClipWire Forum hold no valid moral grounds.

To summarise, you cannot run a game site for "all ages" when the games are based upon social networking sites. Thus, the strict anti-expletives rule is mere heavy handedness rather than morally correct. Furthermore, how does a "family friendly forum" tie in with www.treadon.us and/or www.sepica.com ; which are Drugs, Gangs, Guns and War based games respectively.

Rarely ever agree with you but that was a solid post in this regards.

[Dalamar]

Originally Posted by Sir Brian

I completely accept the reasons behind the merger. And i think it is a good idea.

However, the forum over there is poorl maintained, poorly modded and in itself "out of date". The Terms Of Service, and thus the controlling powers they give the mods; are frankly atrocious. One cannot expect to merge Oddthought with it's tremendous range of freedom of speech, with a "family forum" of such restricting mannor. ClipWire needs to slacken it's rules.

As for the point that they are providing a "family friendly forum"; well they point out to us that they serve for kids as young as 11. This seems very perculiar to me, as the minimum age for MySpace usership is 14. And, if a parent is willing to let a child use MySpace (where these games are based as applications.); then they must clearly realise their children would be open to material of an adult nature - and thus the strict rules imposed on the ClipWire Forum hold no valid moral grounds.

To summarise, you cannot run a game site for "all ages" when the games are based upon social networking sites. Thus, the strict anti-expletives rule is mere heavy handedness rather than morally correct. Furthermore, how does a "family friendly forum" tie in with www.treadon.us and/or www.sepica.com ; which are Drugs, Gangs, Guns and War based games respectively.



Edit:

Thankyou for the message.


EditII:

To summarise it in another way... (From the OT Chat Box).

It really really riles me. I spent a lot of this morning talking to their Mods. If parents really cared about wheather a few expletives were shown to their children then they wouldnt give them free rain on the interent. And thus they wouldn't be on MySpace etc... I feel the rules have been set by a control freak, without them realising how open the internet is; and how people will move to pastures new if they are constantly restricted.

+1 if i could......really well said..and it mirrors what the majority of us think here

[Forphucsake]

Wow Odd Thought is 2 words.... always thought it was Oddthought as it says so much on this forum :s

[tftmc]

Originally Posted by Uganja

How much did you get buddy... c'mon... how much?

Guarentee it wasn't more than $3000.

Well, at least we know what's going to happen now.

[Jacx]

he owns both clipwire and oddthought u turds...there is no money changing hands

[BIGRICK]

[Uganja]

Originally Posted by Jacx

he owns both clipwire and oddthought u turds...there is no money changing hands

Housekeeping?