QUOTE originally posted by Niet
QUOTE originally posted by Diana
I agree with Dracowlfie 100%. It's the internet, people will post tons of offensive things (in different forms) and often times, there's nothing you can do to change that. I also think this site is being way too extreme.
"It's the internet" is not, and has never been, a valid excuse,
ever. If I engage in paedophilia on the internet, do you really think "it's the internet" would make it okay? Pretty bloody not!
I take an extreme example to make a point: theft is theft, be it a 50p chocolate bar at the corner shop, your friend's DS game, a bank's money, or an image on the internet,
it is theft and theft is not acceptable. If you want PFQ to be shut down on account of harbouring copyright violators, then you're going the right way about it. There's a reason YouTube deletes infringing videos!
That is perfectly understandable; but I feel that you've given yourself a somewhat impossible task that will swallow up the staffs time. There's only so many of you and I already imagine your workload is intense as it is.
With PFQ growing at the rate it is with new members everyday just how is this message going to hit home? How can this be regulated? xD I mean this is why I suggested having RP Moderators who can actually lessen the burden. But with how it is now? Someone is going to end up ripping their hair out.
Copyright law is law and the likes; but sometimes trying to educate folk who are ignorant/naive and too young to understand it is futile. Nooblets are going to noob.
And this endeavour is going to be an everyday task. V.V Where I feel that many members of the community will get the boot for; the 'punishment' for this just seems like too much for something some folk will never grasp. Banning them right off the bat? That's intense; perhaps a work up to a ban is more called for rather than 'WHAM'.
@Void; No. How can someone pull that off? Crediting the photographer yes; but the folk in it? Good lord. It's not even WORTH using the image if that's the case.
