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Should OpenSimWorld used as platform for political post?
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There are no formal rules in the site's TOS, or elsewhere, against using OSW as a platform for political posts. What we are dealing with then is a question of social norms -- the set of unwritten shared expectations of how people are expected to behave.
However, there are formal rules against quite a lot of other activity that goes on here. You might be familiar with some of those rule-breaking activities yourself. The expectation, at least by the site owner, is that these rules be followed. In practice, they often are not. In situations like this, people tend to forget their manners, so to speak, and do all sorts of unpopular things. like posting artistic images, and creative expressions that comment on world affairs. These are said to disrupt the escapist aims of people active in Open Sim.
But guess what. Open Sim World is not Open Sim. Some people, perhaps the wisest of us all, ignore OSW entirely. The fact is that you can dictate the behavior and set the norms on your own grid, but as soon as you poke your head out of your in-world escapist fantasy life, you encounter here in OSW the real world! Yikes!
I can decide to not go visit the Trumptopia grid. I'm certainly not going to visit the Charlie Kirk Memorial or the MAGAGrid. I'm in OS to escape all that. But these folks are going to show up here on OSW with posts about their activities and such. So think of it this way. When someone posts an image or some words expressing something you deem political, think of it as a way, albeit however indirect, as a way to promote their grid and the kind of norms you will find there. We can do that here, right?
In other words, lets establish the norm on OSW of being kind to one another. Shall we put that to a poll?
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However, there are formal rules against quite a lot of other activity that goes on here. You might be familiar with some of those rule-breaking activities yourself. The expectation, at least by the site owner, is that these rules be followed. In practice, they often are not. In situations like this, people tend to forget their manners, so to speak, and do all sorts of unpopular things. like posting artistic images, and creative expressions that comment on world affairs. These are said to disrupt the escapist aims of people active in Open Sim.
But guess what. Open Sim World is not Open Sim. Some people, perhaps the wisest of us all, ignore OSW entirely. The fact is that you can dictate the behavior and set the norms on your own grid, but as soon as you poke your head out of your in-world escapist fantasy life, you encounter here in OSW the real world! Yikes!
I can decide to not go visit the Trumptopia grid. I'm certainly not going to visit the Charlie Kirk Memorial or the MAGAGrid. I'm in OS to escape all that. But these folks are going to show up here on OSW with posts about their activities and such. So think of it this way. When someone posts an image or some words expressing something you deem political, think of it as a way, albeit however indirect, as a way to promote their grid and the kind of norms you will find there. We can do that here, right?
In other words, lets establish the norm on OSW of being kind to one another. Shall we put that to a poll?
Du kannst es nicht lassen,oder? Und gibst noch nicht einmal zu, das dein eigentliches Anliegen rechte Hetze ist. Na, wer es merken will, der sieht das, wer nicht,..na ja..
You just can't help yourself, can you? And you won't even admit that your real aim is right-wing hate speech. Well, those who want to see it will, those who don't... well...
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You just can't help yourself, can you? And you won't even admit that your real aim is right-wing hate speech. Well, those who want to see it will, those who don't... well...