A Serious Note

inspiron said:

This is a north American site, meaning that the NSFW tag applies to the somewhat Victorian US standards, not the European standards. If I want to see a bare breasted woman in Europe, all I have to do is browse to any tabloid newspaper homepage. "Playboy" type photos aren't considered pornographic ... it is only considered pornographic when it shows a sexual act (or an erect male organ).

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However, if an employee's productivity at work was down and the boss saw him viewing such non-work related material during working hours, would be it not be grounds for being laid off at the next moment of convenience? :roll: Interestingly, I've noticed that a good number of European motorcycle sites do not have bare breasted women pictures, although a few do. That tells me that overall they want motorcycle content, which is their central focus. :wink:

themeatmanlandry said:

Common sense dictates that we defer to the lesser standard . . . i.e. if any single person could get in trouble by clicking on it in front of their mom/child/boss/spouse, we put the tag on it.

It's kind of like adapting to differing world cultures. In some parts of the world, the bottom of your shoe is like giving "the finger," yt "the finger" means nothing. So, if we were on a medium that crossed both fo these boundaries, wewould have to respect both cultures by not giving "the finger" or showing the bottom of our shoes.

Dumb analogy, but it's all I've got.

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:idea: That is not a dumb analogy. It is the image of the Forum that is at stake. Some US employers will allow employees to view personal material during their lunch hour and prior to and after working hours. However, this forum could be banned by an IT manager and blocked if it was detected to have inappropriate material on it. All it takes is one picture. Could you imagine being banned by a large university or big corporation? Or being required to shut down or curtail because someone complained to your server provider?

To show you how serious at least one employer looks at the situation, an airman at the local Air Force base recently received a stiff punishment for viewing swimsuit clad females on a Government computer. The Air Force has women in uniform, viewing of such is considered inappropriate material not work related and IMHO, considered as sexually harrassing material.

I think that your policy is fair and reasonable. olice: Afterall, is not the forums provided as a sounding board for people with motorcyling interests, and we all want to encourage a wide level of participation including female participation on the boards? Displaying of sexually explicit material will denigrate the site and narrow the participating audience. :thumbsdo:

- HPT

Bottom line as far as the rules go, is that our aim is to make and keep this site family oriented.

As long as it's an all inclusive Suzuiki site that includes dirtbikes, preteens ride dirtbikes and their fathers or mothers look for info, just check this site for evidence of that. So I would like for a dad looking for advice about said dirtbike for his son to be able to browse the site with his son.

As for the off topic section, it's just that an off topic forum,topic here is motorcycles anything else is off topic, that does not mean off color or anything goes ! It's still a family oriented off topic forum.

Don't mind being flexible and allowing the occasional NSFW thread if it's identified as such but this should be the exception and the extra leeway allowed does have it's limits.

It seems 85% of the net is devoted to porn so if that's what you want to see go right ahead, I've no problem with that. Just don't bring it here because that's not we're about.

Thank you for your time.