TimTwoFace
03-18-2003, 12:36 PM
Hey Toonzone Members,
In light of the recent world events - particularly the Iraq situation - we Cafe Toonzone Mods are asking you to keep from posting numerous new threads regarding the political and potential military conflict. We are by no means banning such ideas - in fact, we encourage intelligent discussion on these boards - but that is the key word. Intelligent.
Recently we took it upon ourselves to immediately halt any of the France-bashing threads on the boards. We'd like to continue in that same vein and eliminate any threads or posts that bash President Bush, the US, their allies, Iraq, and anything else out there. Bashing nations or individuals is not very intelligent; when you post, pretend that you're writing this for school. Choose your words properly and support anything you say, positive or negative, with facts and figures. For the most part, people do post in this manner, and we applaud you. But there are still a number of people on the boards that just log on, say "BUSH SUCKS!" or "FRANCE SUCKS!" and then go on their merry way. That isn't intelligent - that is a flame, and such threads and posts will be eliminated.
As you have probably noticed, more and more war-related threads have been appearing at Cafe Toonzone over the past few weeks. At the time I wrote this message, there were eight - that's nearly one third of the first page of that forum dedicated to the issues surrounding the war. These threads began innocently enough as new developments became known, but they all quickly turn into another fight over the war, discussing the exact same issues that were discussed likely just an hour before in another thread on the same forum.
Again, we are not trying to dissaude any Toonzone members from discussing these issues, but we do not want to see the Cafe become a forum that would appear to be dedicated to the Iraq situation. It's clogging up the board far too much, especially when considering the amount of repetition in each thread.
As of now, all war-related threads will be closed, and a new war thread will be constructed. This will be the one war thread in the Cafe, and any issue relating to the US/Iraq conflict will be discussed there and only there. It will be done in the same style as a "Talkback" thread that you would find in many of the other Toonzone forums. This way, everything will be well organized for mods and posters alike.
If for whatever reason you feel you need to post a rant - an educated rant that isn't just a flame against someone or something - please do so within that one particular thread. Emotions are running high amongst many people, and often times high emotions allow us to write very passionate things; however, as this is an all-ages board, these posts must be monitored and if they are flames or tremendously off topic, they will be eliminated.
Please keep these new guidelines in mind when posting about this, or any other topic at the Cafe.
-Tim "Two-Face" Leighton
Toonzone Moderator
In light of the recent world events - particularly the Iraq situation - we Cafe Toonzone Mods are asking you to keep from posting numerous new threads regarding the political and potential military conflict. We are by no means banning such ideas - in fact, we encourage intelligent discussion on these boards - but that is the key word. Intelligent.
Recently we took it upon ourselves to immediately halt any of the France-bashing threads on the boards. We'd like to continue in that same vein and eliminate any threads or posts that bash President Bush, the US, their allies, Iraq, and anything else out there. Bashing nations or individuals is not very intelligent; when you post, pretend that you're writing this for school. Choose your words properly and support anything you say, positive or negative, with facts and figures. For the most part, people do post in this manner, and we applaud you. But there are still a number of people on the boards that just log on, say "BUSH SUCKS!" or "FRANCE SUCKS!" and then go on their merry way. That isn't intelligent - that is a flame, and such threads and posts will be eliminated.
As you have probably noticed, more and more war-related threads have been appearing at Cafe Toonzone over the past few weeks. At the time I wrote this message, there were eight - that's nearly one third of the first page of that forum dedicated to the issues surrounding the war. These threads began innocently enough as new developments became known, but they all quickly turn into another fight over the war, discussing the exact same issues that were discussed likely just an hour before in another thread on the same forum.
Again, we are not trying to dissaude any Toonzone members from discussing these issues, but we do not want to see the Cafe become a forum that would appear to be dedicated to the Iraq situation. It's clogging up the board far too much, especially when considering the amount of repetition in each thread.
As of now, all war-related threads will be closed, and a new war thread will be constructed. This will be the one war thread in the Cafe, and any issue relating to the US/Iraq conflict will be discussed there and only there. It will be done in the same style as a "Talkback" thread that you would find in many of the other Toonzone forums. This way, everything will be well organized for mods and posters alike.
If for whatever reason you feel you need to post a rant - an educated rant that isn't just a flame against someone or something - please do so within that one particular thread. Emotions are running high amongst many people, and often times high emotions allow us to write very passionate things; however, as this is an all-ages board, these posts must be monitored and if they are flames or tremendously off topic, they will be eliminated.
Please keep these new guidelines in mind when posting about this, or any other topic at the Cafe.
-Tim "Two-Face" Leighton
Toonzone Moderator