Jeff Head with the approval of other active SDF MODs and myself has streamed lined the rules of this forum..making them easier to read and understand.
Great job Jeff, the next two posts inform all users what SD is about:
PREAMBLE AND BIASES
There has been a lot of discussion about bias...and whether there is any, should be any, etc.
Let me make clear what I believe over the years the entire moderation team has tried to accomplish..
Of course there are biases. Everyone has them. Whether people have biases or not is not the issue.
The issue is how the acceptance of, or vocalization of the biases is handled on the forum.
SD is not meant to be a place where politics and these biases bare sway in any real fashion. I is a place where we want to try and discuss the technologies and the capabilities of various military and defense issues, their technology, their cost, their capabilities etc. It is also a place to be able to discuss certain countries and their beauty, pictures, and non-bias oriented cultural things...bu principally defense technologies.
Common sense will tell you that if people get the idea that one or the other bias is acceptable that people will come here and invite their friends who share and push those biases to come here...and then SD will no longer be a Military Defense Forum...it will become a political forum full of flame wars, attacks, insults, and degradation as the sides line up against each other.
We have have attempted to keep that type of thing from happening and to stop such bias on both sides. I have tried to do all in my power in my time here and will continue to do so. It is what we must do if we want SD to remain the preeminent place on the web where people of all sorts come to discuss defense.
As long as people follow the rules and do not push their bias, or try and insult of others who may feel differently, then people from Pakistan and India, people from Saudi Arabia and Israel, people from China and the the US, or China and Japan, etc., etc. can coexist on this forum and get a lot of pleasure and a lot of goo information from one another.
So the rules are written to forbid politics, and insulting bias activity, etc. and we have policed the biases and will continue to do so.
It does not mean people do not have them...of course they do. We are asking people to be mature about them and not come here to express, push, or lift up such biases over other people.
SD IS NOT FOR THAT!
If that is what any poster wants to do...GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.
On the other hand, if you can pretty much leave such ideology and pushing it on others at the door, and want to discuss military technology without the bias and learn about it...and also maybe learn about other people without all the negativity, bias, insults, flame wars, etc...then SD is meant for you.
That is what SD is about and is the way we moderate and try and operate SD...and it is something that everyone should know when signing up to post here at SD.
Now, the forum rules of behavior:
Great job Jeff, the next two posts inform all users what SD is about:
PREAMBLE AND BIASES
There has been a lot of discussion about bias...and whether there is any, should be any, etc.
Let me make clear what I believe over the years the entire moderation team has tried to accomplish..
Of course there are biases. Everyone has them. Whether people have biases or not is not the issue.
The issue is how the acceptance of, or vocalization of the biases is handled on the forum.
SD is not meant to be a place where politics and these biases bare sway in any real fashion. I is a place where we want to try and discuss the technologies and the capabilities of various military and defense issues, their technology, their cost, their capabilities etc. It is also a place to be able to discuss certain countries and their beauty, pictures, and non-bias oriented cultural things...bu principally defense technologies.
Common sense will tell you that if people get the idea that one or the other bias is acceptable that people will come here and invite their friends who share and push those biases to come here...and then SD will no longer be a Military Defense Forum...it will become a political forum full of flame wars, attacks, insults, and degradation as the sides line up against each other.
We have have attempted to keep that type of thing from happening and to stop such bias on both sides. I have tried to do all in my power in my time here and will continue to do so. It is what we must do if we want SD to remain the preeminent place on the web where people of all sorts come to discuss defense.
As long as people follow the rules and do not push their bias, or try and insult of others who may feel differently, then people from Pakistan and India, people from Saudi Arabia and Israel, people from China and the the US, or China and Japan, etc., etc. can coexist on this forum and get a lot of pleasure and a lot of goo information from one another.
So the rules are written to forbid politics, and insulting bias activity, etc. and we have policed the biases and will continue to do so.
It does not mean people do not have them...of course they do. We are asking people to be mature about them and not come here to express, push, or lift up such biases over other people.
SD IS NOT FOR THAT!
If that is what any poster wants to do...GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.
On the other hand, if you can pretty much leave such ideology and pushing it on others at the door, and want to discuss military technology without the bias and learn about it...and also maybe learn about other people without all the negativity, bias, insults, flame wars, etc...then SD is meant for you.
That is what SD is about and is the way we moderate and try and operate SD...and it is something that everyone should know when signing up to post here at SD.
Now, the forum rules of behavior:
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