o right, i need to update that, thanks!

I have a question
Is it alright to talk about sexuality?
You did not say all that clearly whether this is acceptable or not to talk about sexuality in the rules.

All I can say is this Miles.... Keep all the forum conversations under PG-13 and you'll be fine

That is generally a bad idea. Allow me to explain why!

Discussion of sexuality generally involves topics that are beyond the limit of PG-13, both idealistically/politically, and physically. PG-13 is also the MAXIMUM rating, but is by no means the general rating of the forums we run by (which is somewhere between PG and PG-13). It is okay to mention sexuality if the topic somehow goes there, but it's an unwise idea to go in depth about it.

To give an idea, most/several of our furry related discussion topics have been locked or deleted because they went into unsavory territory, whether or not the participants of the thread meant to do so. A discussion of sexuality, unfortunately, can easily fall into the same trap. I hope I've explained this well enough...

I am awesome, yes

also new rules or whatever

Heh, I should PROBABLY read these things before I join, huh?
Never do, and I never have to worry about, because most everything I say is PG anyway.

That is good, but you still should read all the rules. Not all of them are "No stuff over PG-13".

I see. I do not want to start a topic on something which will be dominated by inappropriate posts and responces, before I found this webcomic I came across some research documents about the Furry Fandom and they stated that the Furry Fandom had a large minority of bisexuals and claimed that furries adopted a friendly and welcoming approach from their bisexual members. I wanted to clarify whether this might be true or false, that is all. I asked in this thread to make sure it was alright to discuss such matters before I asked anyone but since it is not then I will drop the subject.

The furry population here is not a very good cross-section of the furry fandom anyway.

That may be so but quite literally the furries on here are the ONLY ones I have ever spoke to properly, all others disappear when I ask them about the fandom because I am an "outsider", therefore there is still some things I do not quite understand or have been given false information. I wanted to ask these questions while I had the chance.

I can't help you, since I am not even furry. And like Sleet said, this forum probably can't represent the whole furry fandom that well.

However, like Buck said earlier, discussion of sexuality should be avoided. It is okay to mention it, but you will risk triggering undesired discussion if you go any further. So I afraid this forum is not the place for that kind of subject.

I understand and I have officially dropped the subject, I will not mention sexuality again.

Yeah, I read the rules yesterday. HP doesn't have near as many rules as the forum I was part of last. I think Rick was very fair about them. He just wants to keep the comic innocent and avoid too heavy of shipping.

Woo, now we have a report button! I'll make sure to use it every time I must!

The only thing is that no one ever uses it...until now!

I didn't know about the report button until Rick mentioned it too.

Me neither. I actually forgot forums had them because I've never needed it before.

there's a report button?!

Like you're ever gonna need it, though...*cough*Hopefully*cough*

Is it just me or are the HP Forums becoming increasingly rulesy? Not that it's a bad thing that there are rules, but the situation can't be THAT bad.

Then again, Buckdida has yelled at me multiple times for not adequately exploring the forums, so perhaps my naivete springs from the lack of exploration.

Rules mostly come from necessity. When things get out of hand, rules need to be made. It's hard keeping a forum friendly and appropriate without quite a few rules, since people tend to be neither of those things on their own.

What about arguing about values?
It will happen sooner or later.
On another forum the "authorities" closed the thread because of this. Nobody was flaming, just discussing something (For five hours non-stop!). Well, maybe we derailed the thread a little bit.

Something else:

It's fair, as long as it's kept at the minimum possible level. I hate the tendency of rules put in for everything (somewhere else, by somebody else, in another situation).

if you really want to get some heated discussion, you can do it over IM , IRC or PM's, there is no need to go do this in puplic

Agreed.

Re-checked the rules once more and i've got everything covered. Also, not to backseat mod or be a mini-mod, but isn't there a rule that there's "No one-word or single-image responses"? Cuz I've seen some posts (like the post above me) that's just one word and nothing more. Isn't that not allowed?

Things like that probably won't be called out, because that would be even worse than the original one word post. But if you were to abuse one-word posts, you'd probably get a grumpy message from a mod.

That's coming from me, not a mod, but something like that is probably why.

I'm not sure if we've said anything about it. If not, then it's along the lines of an unspoken rule. It's still a rule, but it should be common sense that you shouldn't.

It's a chat thread guideline at the very least.

Just something I wanted a little clarification on. Does alcohol constitute a drug under this rule? I've seen people reprimanded for doing what amounted to mentioning the fact that alcohol exists, not even in the context of actual consumption.

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Okay, I suppose I just answered my own question there, but it never hurts to ask.

I would say no, unless the discussion was directed toward encouraging or goading underage drinking.