Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26221704-20160822185129/@comment-27517770-20160823000228

I like he idea behind this, but there are a few problems I have with it. These rules seem a bit broad, and rules should be pretty specific if they're to work. Yes, terms like "VS Battles Fag" are clearly wrong, but to outright ban all slander of any kind is pretty extreme in my opinion. I feel that we should have the right to say what we think about a fight or series, so long as we don't intentionally try to trigger somebody. We don't want to come off as communists that don't allow freedom of thought. Sure, you can just say that "It's alright in certain situations.", but that really isn't enough. Rules should be extremely specific if they're to work properly as rules, not leaving any room for bias. I don't see how we can specifically ban one type of slander without having somebody take it the wrong way and ban opinions that disagree with their own someday. And to not allow terms such as "salt", "drama", "troll" "fanboy", etc is again, pretty situational. In proper situations, such as a situation with a real salty fanboy troll trying to start drama, these terms should be acceptable. But in other situations, they aren't.

tl;dr: I think that these rules are too broad and may apply in the wrong situations, and they should be improved to be much more specific so there is no room for bias from the enforcers of the rules. If a rule clearly and specifically states what is right or wrong in different situations, then I believe it would be fine. The rules still need work, but the idea is in the right place.