Maybe you could work for "To Catch a Predator" next? That would be great. Thanks.

DoND, has someone asked you to be this obsequious, or were you a hall monitor or some other kind of Hitler Youth in school? I'm not saying you're damaged and looking to somehow validate your own repression by spoiling others' fun, but something along those lines. You need help.

I find this avatar offensive. A face with a vagina for a mouth? Who thinks of this filth?

http://img.aplayr.com/usr64/21091100.jpg

Deal looks like he's just trying to clean up the environment a bit. Nothing wrong with that, there are kids here after all and it's up to us "adults" to protect them, is it not?

Only problem is determining the definition of "offensive". Ryan's call, I suppose.

Wrong, it is up to their parents to protect them. Kids should not be playing this game.

Wrong. Parents are only human. Most parents don't know what their kids are doing on the internet, and simply don't have the knowledge, social circle, or time to keep up with "nanny" technologies. Other people stepping in and helping out, as small and significant their help seems, is always appreciated.

Appreciated, perhaps. Required? No. Look, the sooner kids realize that there are some unsavory morons lurking about in this world, the better off they'll be. There's no protection for innocence because, well, there is really no innocence to begin with, but also because it's impossible.

This isn't a Children's Crusade, it's moralizing. Now if Ryan has asked for someone to clean the avatars up, more power to DoND. If not, then he's just making himself feel a trifle more holy by "saving" us from naughty images.

that's why you can mute people and turn avatars off. or you know let's cater to the loud moral minority

Haha, having morals is bad now? And I strongly doubt it's a minority, most people I meet on here are good folks.

Muting chat and clicking an avatar to turn it off are security practices similar to doors that lock from the outside.

Two things:

1) Z3ddicus is apparently back. Or just roaming the forum like me

2)Frre speech don't mean shit to a tree, honestly. Now, to say what I mean: My sociology tteacher explained this in a very good way, which is how I'm gonna do it now: You can't just run around offending everyone and saying fuck the world because this is a free country. There is also another part, where we have the right to feel protected and safe in this glorious country known as the U.S.A.

I know free speech is great, but that's my arguement against these morons with no values and a bad sense of humor. It's just not cool sometimes, and frre speech can have consequences. I'm not anti-american or what have you, just trying to argue against the dumbest comeback whenever we bitch about an avatar