Yeah I think that was the misunderstanding. In english, I don't like you means you dislike the person, which implies you have a problem with the person, rather than what he does/did.

However, I would like if religious stuff remained outside Omnimaga. If at 1-3 AM GMT-5 someone posts a slightly NSFW video (not porn, but some minimal nudity, like a trailer for a teen comedy movie), I don't want you to complain about it using the religion excuse. Same goes for that person who complained that someone used "oh my god" as expression or that guy who ranted that we used a Christmas theme in December 2007 with the excuse that he's atheist. You're free to believe or not believe in what you want, but there will be no reasonable accomodation on the forums, be it a special rule or exemption.

If I want to use "OMG", I will. If someone wants to post a video that is rated 13+ with some suggestive scenes (but not enough to be adult-rated/considered as porn) or a gory Left 4 Dead 2 video, he will. There's no religion that will stop anyone from doing certain things that would otherwise be within the board rules. In other words, if you call people out for posting something based on your religious beliefs, that would be backseat-moderating, which isn't tolerated when the person enforces rules that don't exist. The only thing that could change something is if the majority objects against a certain form of content (unless the majority wanted me to allow trolling ). The video posted in the chan by SIr, however, was against the rules, because it was blatant adult material.

Anyway, no hard feelings. Just remember that Omnimaga rules offer no exemption based on religions, age, etc.

Yeah, as a rule of thumb, if someone posts a link to something (or a thread in the randomness section) and he says "NSFW" and you suspect it might be stuff you do not want to see, then it's best to not open them. Of course, as moderator, however, we kinda have no choice, though, to make sure people stay within the rules. X.x

That said, remember we started being stricter on rule enforcment in the past few days in response to the abuse that occured for 2 weeks at one point. Otherwise if a ban even occured it would have lasted 10 minutes.

Same goes for that person who complained that someone used "oh my god" as expression

... me?
I'm not gonna to do that again, though.

I've been wondering this for a while and I know no way to find it out without debates. what religion are people here. i was thinking we might be able to do a poll just to see. We'd have to lock the thread to prevent religious arguments though...
This has just been an idea I had for a while and wanted to see if someone could implement


Sorry If I seem to have gotten off-topic

Yeah personally I don't mind debates and stuff on the forums, although I recommend avoiding controversial ones if possible, since they tend into people joining and generalizing, offending other people.

Religion is one hard topic to discuss, because from a country to another it's different, even if it's the same religion. In USA, there are areas that are very religious, while over here, for example, churches are shutting their door due to lack of people coming. (Although the duplessis orphan incident coming out in public didn't help the latter)

I believe we have been able to hold conversations on religion before, and it was quite civil. I don't remember what thread it was though...

Religion shouldn't be remotely a focus on omnimaga, and omnimaga itself must remain neutral.

I would think, however, that if members do want to discuss it because they may be curious or whatnot, then they could. However such conversations would have to be closely watched. Or at least that's my own opinion, I don't care either way personally.

Discussion and small scale debates, I personally see as permissible (though not encouraged) but one way thinking, forcing opinions as others, and general closed mindedness would not be tolerated.

Though, again, that's just the ideal I see. I hope that this community can be mature enough to handle such discussions in the future, although at this time it might not be.