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0 pointsrobotfelix5mo ago0 comments

From the Code of Conduct:

> Unacceptable behaviors include but are not limited to: offensive comments, insults, jokes or ridicule; gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they are nor other unappropriately aggressive behaviors; threats of violence or deliberate intimidation; creating additional online accounts in order to harass another person or circumvent a ban; harassment of any form.

I can't help but wonder who decided that, in an electronics forum of all places, *any* form of joke should be unacceptable, but sexual images are only a problem if they are gratuitous or off-topic!

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b1125mo ago· 2 in thread

Commas are akin to thing(1|2|3) sometimes.

So it's offensive comments, offensive insults, offensive jokes, etc, as I read it, with ; breaking the association.

robotfelixOP5mo ago

You're absolutely correct and it's me who has mis-read that part. The point of the oddly relaxed wording on sexual images and behaviour still stands though!

relaxing5mo ago

Offensive sexual images and behavior would fall under the first clause.

Then you’re left with the “my tasteful nudes aren’t offensive” defense to which the response is “but they are off topic”.

Presumably that means your biometric sensing vibrator hacking tutorial is still legal.

adolph5mo ago

> sexual images are only a problem if they are gratuitous or off-topic

Well if someone was working on something like a medical device there might be some documentation that could be interpreted as sexual but that documenting it was not gratuitous.

echoangle5mo ago

The list is supposed to be read as "offensive jokes", not any joke at all.

crumpled5mo ago

The image would have to be topical, and the sexual nature would have to be necessary (not-gratuitous) for it to be compliant with that CoC.

I'd be surprised if such an image can exist in an electronics forum because those parameters are pretty narrow. I also don't interpret policy as disallowing any form of joke.

I'm not about to go hunting, but I think I would find a good number of good non-offensive jokes, and probably no instances of sexual imagery.

mindslight5mo ago

Just guessing it's to cover pictures of electronic projects involving body parts that are normally covered and/or risque attire?

philipallstar5mo ago

It's so the wrong opinion can be selectively enforced against.

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