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Kleerance
post 01/05/07 9:15am
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Many of us MOB'sters are family people, and we are in this forums at least one time each day. Myself I have a laptop in our livingroom and I check the forums regularly, often with my children hanging around me. I must admit than some avatars from several MOB Regs is not suited for domestic area. We have Grandparents, grandchildren and children watching this site. And personally I would like to have a general rule which forbid sexual or violent avatars. After all this is not a personal homepage - It's the MOBCLAN site. comp26.gif


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post 01/05/07 9:31am
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You have my support on that one, Kleerance!


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post 01/05/07 9:47am
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QUOTE(Kleerance @ 01/05/07 9:15am) *

Many of us MOB'sters are family people, and we are in this forums at least one time each day. Myself I have a laptop in our livingroom and I check the forums regularly, often with my children hanging around me. I must admit than some avatars from several MOB Regs is not suited for domestic area. We have Grandparents, grandchildren and children watching this site. And personally I would like to have a general rule which forbid sexual or violent avatars. After all this is not a personal homepage - It's the MOBCLAN site. comp26.gif

I agreed, there are some bad avatar. smile.gif


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post 01/05/07 10:03am
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I think that Kleerance request is very respectable. We have a wide range of age groups playing here and respect is two fold. Look at our little guy MUNCUS he is 10 yrs old.
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post 01/05/07 10:17am
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For the sake of showing the other side you can disable avatars in your preferences so that they do not show up.

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post 01/05/07 10:53am
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I understand you concern but disagree with any formal restriction. I think some of the avatars are in extremely poor taste, but some may think the same of mine. (although I can't understand why...) so there-in lies the problem.

And, it becomes a judgement of acceptability. Who becomes the judge and jury? I'm with junkie, turn off the avatars if you have a problem and are concerned with content or over the shoulder peekers. The avatars are generally tame, considering any grandpa, or kid can pull up google and find worse stuff in as long as it takes to type it.

No formal restriction is my vote.

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post 01/05/07 12:00pm
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I must agree with Kleerance on this issue.

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post 01/05/07 12:02pm
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if we were not able to turn off avatars i would agree, but since he can, then he should.

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post 01/05/07 12:57pm
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I also think that if someone finds the avatars offensive, why not just disable them? My avatar has some nudity in it but I really dont think the nudity is as horrible as some of the killing ones. I would rather my son daughter see some boobs rather than someones head blowing up or of that nature. But if you guys rule that there is no nudity allowed, I will remove it.


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post 01/05/07 1:52pm
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While Everyone has they're own taste i think that it is in our best intrests to keep the site as Family oriented as possible, like T/A6pak said they're a lot of different age groups watching our forums whether we know it or not....Soo ied have to agree with Kleerance as well

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post 01/05/07 2:48pm
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I have removed mine out of respect for several members... but....

this fits the exact same mold of scrutiny the the GTA series did for thier "hot coffee" mod in which sex was "shown".

a game based on killing, drugs, robbery, gambling, extorsion, and violence is fine... but no sex....

Yes, we have 10 year olds playing... it is a game based on war, that rewards gunshots to the head, and i KNOW that blood is enabled. this game is rated T for teen. not 10. inappropriate is inappropriate, and hell, I would know....

If you are truely reading this forum in front of your family, than I reallly do apologize for miss bouncy that i had as my avatar.

We must also ban the violent/sexual smilies, and the foul language...both of which I would also be fine with.
NOW dont get all mad, and write back all angry, I am just stating my case...like I said, I removed my lovely wife from my avatar because I respect you guys and gal, and love being here.
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post 01/05/07 2:56pm
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QUOTE(flatliner @ 01/05/07 1:48pm) *

I have removed mine out of respect for several members... but....

this fits the exact same mold of scrutiny the the GTA series did for thier "hot coffee" mod in which sex was "shown".

a game based on killing, drugs, robbery, gambling, extorsion, and violence is fine... but no sex....

Yes, we have 10 year olds playing... it is a game based on war, that rewards gunshots to the head, and i KNOW that blood is enabled. this game is rated T for teen. not 10. inappropriate is inappropriate, and hell, I would know....

If you are truely reading this forum in front of your family, than I reallly do apologize for miss bouncy that i had as my avatar.

We must also ban the violent/sexual smilies, and the foul language...both of which I would also be fine with.
NOW dont get all mad, and write back all angry, I am just stating my case...like I said, I removed my lovely wife from my avatar because I respect you guys and gal, and love being here.


Thanks Flat! I gotta say, your avatar was probably the most distracting one in here. Looking at her, I'd usually forget why I was even in here at times! LOL. j/k man, yours was ok, I thought. Next they will be targeting the smokers! HA! (BTW, I don't smoke. I buy 'em for the kids though ohmy.gif )
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post 01/05/07 3:17pm
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My old team, 3rdArmy, had specific forums that were request/invite only where people could post "non family channel" pics and language. I know this doesn't help the avatar issue, but just food for thought.


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post 01/05/07 3:43pm
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post 01/05/07 3:44pm
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For my 2 cents, I turned off sigs/avatars about the 2nd week I was here... it was either that or leave, because I couldn't take some of 'em.

Kinda boring with no sigs or avatars, but at least it's tolerable this way.




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