A Moderate Plan to Stop Offensiveness

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I weighed several options for how to deal with the fact that some people here on WrongPlanet.net become offended by what other people do, but the first ideas I came up with were somewhat extreme: blowing up the planet so that there would be no one left to be offended, turning WrongPlanet.net into a blank page, and limiting people to saying just hi or bye. However, I have devised a plan that I hope establishes a balance between massive destruction and hyperpassivity.

All members of the community should be obliged to agree to and follow strictly these terms and be removed without ado for violating them:

• No avatars: The mood you're currently in, the interests you hold, or your conception of the aesthetic ideal might offend somebody.
• No emoticons, colored fonts, or graphics: Some people are hypersensitive to visual stimuli and may experience sensory overload.
• No opinions: The only opinions you can express are those accepted by the community, and our one uniting principle is that autism is a good thing and that neurodiversity should be encouraged.
• Don't discuss past mistreatment: Such discussions may cause more sensitive members to relive traumatic experiences. Also, it affirms an us-vs.-them mentality by conjuring negative stereotypes of a cold, uncaring NT-dominated society.
• Don't use negative adverbs or prefixes: Morphemes like not, un-, no, etc. can only lead to disagreement and the unacceptance of another person's point of view.
• Don't discuss different cultures: Other cultures have standards of acceptable behavior, customs, attitudes, and beliefs that may be quite different and often even wrong. For example, since it is already known that Jesus Christ is God, there is no need to bring Allah or the Buddha into conversation here.
• No politics: Some people think silly things about our leaders and how things should be run; they express their opinions that they obviously can't believe to be true because they're trolls who just want to offend people for their perverse sense of amusement. President George W. Bush is the new Christ, and we all know that.
• No debate on what constitutes family friendliness: If you don't know what family values are by the time you can use a computer, you need to go back to diapers.
• No questioning the moderators: The moderators are responsible for maintaining order and a presentation of this site as being a family-oriented site where no one is offended. This can't be done if their authority is questioned.
• No misspelling or misuse of punctuation: Some people are offended by a misplaced comma.
• No pity: People are offended if other people pity them because it makes them feel they are incapable.
  

This still leaves plenty of room for discussing, say, the naval lint collection you're growing in your belly button. There is also plenty of room for family-oriented figurative pats on the shoulder: "There, there! You're cool! "

I wholeheartedly agree and second this motion.

We need to do away with profanity, as well as replacement words like crap, freak, frikkin, shart, heck, etc. The intent itself is offensive. Strong emotions are also offensive because they may disturb our more sensitive members.

It would be nice, but hard to do. We can only try to do this in the end.

What about those who think the term "Aspie" is offensive?

I'm a bit offended by the implication that Aspies have large noses. My nose isn't large. Are you trying to steal my identity?

the whole idea offends me

NeantHumain wrote-
blowing up the planet so that there would be no one left to be offended




I'm curious. Why didn't you want to blow up the planet so that there would be no one left to offend rather than eliminate the offended? (Hmmm. Are you an offender??)

If you're offended at this, does that make me an offender? Hmm.

But really: should I get a larger nose?

Odeon, No, I don't think that you should get a larger nose. I recommend a longer ring finger instead.

Hey, why is everyone in this thread talking about me?

ok neanthumain, WE'LL GO TO MARS.

this is the worst idea I have ever seen, the site will be such a bore after all that! People that get offended by petty things need to:

A) Get over themselves
B) Relise the world doesn't revolve around them

Sure, I hate nomaken's avatar, it's the lamest thing I've ever seen. But I have ABSOLUTLEY no right to tell him to get rid of it, I need to get over myself and relise the world doesn't revolve around me.

"In a world where everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much."

Having said that, I give this proposal my stamp of approval, in the same vein that this proposal was written up.

NH, thank you for adding a good dose of satire and an implied call for a bit of rationality here! And actually very tactfully done.

Or, to be less formal, YOU GO BOY!