Hello, fellow forum members. Your friendly mod staff here. Over the past week or so, several posts have been flagged by the community for breaking the “Keep it Clean” or, more commonly, “family-friendly” rule. This is just a general reminder of that rule and why we have it.
4. KEEP IT CLEAN. MST3K itself adheres to a certain Looney-Tunes-style standard of family-friendliness; which is to say, not everything has to be kid-appropriate, but it should at least not be overt or explicit. Try to hit a similar tone with your posts here in the forums. Avoid profanity or other problematic speech. Sexual content is also inappropriate here. And finally, slurs of any kind and attacks on marginalized folks will not be tolerated.
This is the official forum for Mystery Science Theater 3000, which means we have fans of all ages participating here. Posts don’t need to be scrubbed so clean they shine, but there has been a general slippage into more overt sexual content, drug/alcohol abuse, and profanity of late, and we, as a group, need to walk that back a little bit.
We realise it isn’t always easy to determine whether something violates the rules, which is why there is a flag system. The mods then make judgment calls as a group any time a post is flagged. In all instances, the goal is to facilitate conversation while maintaining the health and safety of the community.
So please, tell us all about what you did over the weekend. Post your memes (edited as necessary for language) and manipulations. But remember the keep it clean rule. If you think you need to blur the image in order to post it, it’s better not to post it at all.
I just find it funny that this merited an official post now. I saw some stuff my first month here, in Lounge Land, that seemed excessive for a family-friendly board. I flagged it, but never got a response, so I solved my issue but just not going into that thread anymore.
What I mean is: the post that bugged me was never removed. And in one case, I didn’t even care that it was there. I just hoped it would be blurred because it was a movie still with a bunch of nudity in it.
But this has happened maybe three times the entire time I’ve been here. So I didn’t make a Federal case out of it.
I realize that mods are busy and only get paid in squirrel pelts, but this was even before we had the volunteer brigade.
Like the message says, there’s just been a general slippage of late and we need to make a course correction.
