New Testingstan

RedImperator wrote:There's two components to "the affairs of other boards" rule. The first is (was) the ban on making threads to snipe at other boards, which honestly was mostly to keep the peace between SDN and SB in the early days of the board. While I don't think it's generally good or healthy for a majority of a board's traffic to be about other boards (he says, on Testingstan, in this thread), I don't think there's any reason "don't talk about other boards" should be a general principle, either. I don't see it as being much different from a thread that made fun of, say, Darkstar's website, or a dumb conservative's blog. If the target deserves it, then have at it--and HPCA definitely deserves it.

The second is part of a broader, longstanding policy that people shouldn't be punished on SDN for things they say and do elsehwere on the Internet, unless what they do elsewhere directly impacts SDN. Now, that doesn't mean you have to pretend that whatever they said elsewhere doesn't matter. You can use what they say elsewhere as evidence of intent, for example, which is what just happened with ADR. You can take issue with how ADR's statements here were used against him on SDN in this particular case, but there isn't and has never been some kind of blanket rule that you can't take someone's statement's elsewhere as evidence he or she intends to break the rules on SDN.

You can lump these two ideas together under the same broad category, but I don't think it's being inconsistent to say "You can make fun of other boards here, but we won't punish you for things you say elsewhere on the Internet". I don't see any logical reason why you can't have both policies. And as far as the first one goes, while I've said for a while (both here, in public on SDN, and in the mod forum) that I think the administration makes unnecessary trouble for itself by not communicating clearly, if a rule hasn't been enforced in years and isn't in the official board policies anymore (the AR, ID, and DR rule list), it's really not fair to call its continued nonenforcement "inconsistent".

adr wrote:Get ur fill of sci-fi, science, and MOCKERY OF STUPID PEOPLE

VF5SS wrote:so is SDN gonna start combing its hair weird and doing the finger guns like Toby McGuire in Spiderman 3

adr wrote:

xon wrote:Ugh, I need to stop posting in that Income Inequality thread.

What are you talking about, and what does this have to do with income distribution


LOLOL

starku wrote:man connor had another change of mind with his bizarre obsession with 40k
brace yourself for another 50 threads

VF5SS wrote:the Spartanians are so cool

adr wrote:Play numbers: net assets vs annual income. It's a pretty flat line through the middle class.

adr wrote:hahaha i could probably post virtually anything and be accussed of trolling

amazing