Are we perhaps being too careful not to offend someone? Can we lighten up a bit?

[Adrian Schneider]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

yay nexlysis is here, you should've been around for the thread earlier, i actually wished for your presence in there.

Wouldn't you rather wish for something like ending world hunger? What would Alladin say...

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Anyway, personally I think Jelsoft should get a new tagline / advertising scheme for vBulletin: "vBulletin, Fun for the Whole Family" and have kid-themed skin, a babysitting type chatroom thing, etc. It will be flawless! Invision, phpBB and the other competition boards will have no choice but to bow down. We might even get lucky and see some of their own kids in the babysitting room!

I never knew vBulletin was a family thing. IMO if people are mature enough to be hacking a board, they are mature enough to see a 16x16 image of a drawn head with a knife in it. Who knows, maybe they just think they are a 1337 hacker, and the smiley will give them nightmares and create smilyphobia and haunt them until the end of their days.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

What i really don't understand is that even though this has been in our rules for a long time, nobody ever bothered to comment on that. And now a lot of you act surprised like they didn't know (or agree) on this part of our rules.

Didn't you read the rules, or what was your motivation to accept them?

[tehste]

Hmmm... does anybody actually really read terms and conditions / rules? Or just click the accept checkbox / button...
While the original thing was funny (Where marco didn't realise the arrow/death smilie that is on vbulletin.org) - oh how i laughed - i think this thread has gone a lil trivial.

An animated smilie depicting suicide I wouldn't say was unsuitable for minors (Unless there was a huge amount of realism - smilies aren't real)

The original issue was a critiscism of the over-the-top censorship.

[Borgs8472]

Originally Posted by zsdave

Hmmm... does anybody actually really read terms and conditions / rules? Or just click the accept checkbox / button...

Is this a trick question? :/



Smileys can be very political, especially those out to get the oppressive administation!



(Joking!)

Damn I love my smileys...

[Kirk Y]

Perhaps in light of this thread someone should create a smilie holding a sign that says: You're a moron!

[Jenta]

omg borgs, an irishman and an indian blowing up
/me hides his children

[EasyTarget]

better to err on the side of caution in my opinion.

[yessir]

Don't you guys have anything better to do with your time? Lame complaints.

"look at me, i am being censored, my rights are being trampled, this is injustice".

Step into real world of hunger, war and corruption. You'd think twice about wasting your time complaining about mistreatment over a smilie request. You might even grow up.

Marco, good job. Last time I checked, you are a mod. If people don't like it, they should complain to management, and stop trying to take their complaints public to the time wasting/day dreaming masses. I doubt these whiners express this much tolerance towards or take the scrutiny you have been subjected to from posters on their own forums.

[Andrew]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

Perhaps in light of this thread someone should create a smilie holding a sign that says: You're a moron!

How does this work ?

[Jenta]

Originally Posted by roscoe36

Marco, good job. Last time I checked, you are a mod. If people don't like it, they should complain to management, and stop trying to take their complaints public to the time wasting/day dreaming masses.

Umm, I posted this here for management. No need to hide this.

Originally Posted by roscoe36

I doubt these whiners express this much tolerance towards or take the scrutiny you have been subjected to from posters on their own forums.

Huge difference between a company forum and our car forums or whatever. Last time I checked, the $160 that I sent Jelfsoft includes the ability to use this forum!

And please stop the name calling.