I'm honestly of two minds with this, but I do think it's an overreaction. Originally I was just sort of meh about it despite not liking it, but it's just not sat well with me. The following post was a bit hard to make because outside some limited but VERY, VERY obvious examples, it's hard to tell what topics and conversations contributed to this and what didn't.
Said extreme examples of this needed to be handled. Zenny, looking at you here as one of them. It does generally take one person to ruin things for everyone, and you've been getting worse and worse about things lately. People have been trying to tell you to cool it but you generally ignored them.
And yeah, we don't need more Mermaid chats or the like.
Seriously though? Regular ol' sex talk is normal and healthy. Sure, we do sometimes veer off into stupid/inappropriate territory, but we're fucking adults now. Sorry if some people are uptight about certain topics but goddamn sometimes people just wanna talk about that stuff. Sometimes the outlet is fun and while it can be juvenile I think we're all mature enough to realize that side is still/will always be a part of us. Like I said before though, I probably might be misunderstanding which conversations led to this, but that should still be said.
And really? Because people log onto IRC from work? Thats a terrible justification for this. It doesn't sit well with me at all for similar reasons to Zenny. If you're gonna log onto IRC from work, you're assuming the risks. I'm not curtailing my behavior just because other people decide to distract themselves at work, and I don't care how dickish that sounds. Sure, some people honestly deserve it (and it's not like I never slacked off at work on the internet either), but I just can't support it as a valid reasoning from a professional or a personal standpoint.
Most of the time you can even still get most of us to stop by telling us to. There's no need for the standing rule, even if some people have gone overboard in the past.
