For me its not only a problem with only rules and laws as said just because different country have different rules and law. All open community have basically the sales rules, no politics, no religious, and mostly the same as in Totem's CODE OF CONDUCT.
I agree with
@Dorsai6 we should encourage civil discourse, we are supposed to be all adults and mature people so there is no point to be disrespectful against others or against Totem. You can have your own opinion and different point of view but it's not a reason to be harmfull.
It still possible to make mistakes because some word in a language can be something really different in another. Let's take an example with a simple word : "koleos", for those who don't know Koleos is a french car (made by Renault) and it's infact an old Greek word (κολεός) meaning case, scabbard... but it's actual meaning is vagina.
A simple joke translated from a language to another can also be seen as disrespectful in another, we can't know everything nor a Moderator.
I tend to aggree with
@wyldanimal when he's saying :
I being from the US, was brought up with a different set of beliefs.
One belief is that all speech is protected, even speech that might be uncomfortable to others.
So as a MOD, I tend to take a non Censorship approach.
If a post, causes other members to react, or I am sent PM's to that affect.
I may send the OP a PM, asking them to choose words more carefully.
But I wouldn't censor the post.
For me, he's perfectly doing is moderador job like that and if really someone need a ban (for anything), this decision should come from Totem and not a moderator.
What to do when you see someone posting a comment on a model page saying : "she's a good bitch".
Are you shocked or not ? Is that an insult or not ?
Personally, I'm a girl and I am not shocked, I take it as a compliment not as an insult (but it's my own opinion and I'm open minded).
The forum is private, you need to log in to see posts, and it's about Totem software which can show soft or full nudity or even pronographic content. We don't have the rights to post some nudity or porn in some forum's parts and I think it's fine like that.
Now when I see a problematic topic, I try to not answer or post unless I'm really concerned. Any gamer could tell you : "Don't feed the troll".
The only think I don't really agree with is about my old avatar. It was showing me nude with a cigarette but pubis was hidden so to me that was simply "sex art" and not breaking any rules (but maybe I have missed a line). Some said we could use anything else as picture, a car, a dog... since the avatar is public but question: "Are we on Disney Channel ?" No!
Anyway,
@wyldanimal asked me to change it long ago, and I did (It was just a parenthesis
😜)
