Since there is no option to turn off individual avatars, this is the way it has to be. I'm pretty liberal with what is put up there (I have no problem with Jolene's butt), but KTR's av went too far and I'm not real comfortable with Mitty's either, if truth be told.
Use some common sense. Avs don't have to be puritanical, but let's not go into Maxim territory.
And quit bitching about arbitrariness. If I wanted to be arbitrary, you all would have see it long, long ago. More often than not, I bend over backwards trying to be fair and reasonable. A little bit of faith in me would be nice.
Then again, I wanted a pony for Christmas when I was a kid, and didn't get it. Such is life.
Final word and then I'm closing this, because I'm only human and I'm afraid if this does continue, I will be very tempted to do the "all or nothing" bit and it would be "nothing". Most of you know what is really acceptable, you know it, I know it. I'm human guys. I've run this place for a year and a half now. I've barely been at the site the last few days because the whole thing in the scheme of my life is so petty and annoying, that I want to react emotionally, which I've tried not to do while running this place.
Please don't push the line and try to make things racier and racier. Like it or not, this is a Trek board and it's not really the place for some of those avs. Meet me halfway.
As for the UGO avs, you know and I know they are a necessary evil and I have zero control over them. I personally dislike them immensely, because I don't like the picture they present of women and what they "sell", but then again, that happens in real life too. Not a damn thing I can do about the UGO ads and it's unfortunate that it makes me/us look like hypocrites for censoring yours and not theirs, but this is life.
In a perfect online world, there would be 100% fairness, 100% justice, equality, freedom of speech. Of course, in a fair online world, everyone would be bending over backwards to be good to one another too, you know?
This isn't a perfect online world. It's run by an imperfect human, imperfect (if dedicated, and to whom I'm grateful for their help) mods and imperfect posters post here.
You'd make my life easier if you'd not get all up in the air over stuff, especially when you know you're pushing the line. I've given you what I can, I have more goodies coming (probably early this week after some real life things settle, I have a child with an 18th birthday upcoming so want to celebrate that ) and when I deny something, I have a very good reason, the reason in this case being that some avs are getting too graphic. I don't want to throw new rules in, I already feel that we have too many rules and hate to have to codify everything, just use some damned common sense and don't always push, push, push. Because one day you'll push once too often and I'll be gone and as much as a pain in the ass as I may be or imperfect as I am, I care about this place. And I can tell you, it'll be hard to find someone else who will put up with running this place.
Just meet me halfway, OK?
