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Originally posted by jake13jake

• A significant amount of people don't enjoy the off topic posting, arguing, and bickering.
• We paid for our message board access and therefore you should care what we think.
• 1+1=2

Do the math. If it isn't against the rules already then it should be.

• A significant amount of people in any given country don't like their government.
• Most of 'em pay some sort of taxes to their government, therefore their government should care what they think.
• 1+1=2

Does this mean the government's wrong, just because the people don't like it? People are ignorant; they don't know what's best for them.

Case in point: Someone yesterday asked me to give them a skill scroll on Graal Kingdoms. Further probing yielded that they wanted it from me because I was global staff, and therefore could make one. Now, even after I explained that it was against the rules, it'd be bad for me to do, and it'd be bad for him to accept something like that (let alone encourage it), he still insisted that I should do it "just this once" for him. I even explained how it'd teach him that if he asked enough administrators, someone'd be corrupt - he didn't care, he just said "plz" again. -_-

In short, the forum rules are not based on what a minority of the people want. Hell, they're not even based on what a majority of the people want. This is a dicatorship, not a democracy. An arguably benevolant dictatorship, but a dictatorship nonetheless. There's no rule about posting off-topic stuff; it is allowed (excluding other violations of the rules, of course). Same goes for arguments, so long as they don't get out of hand. This one didn't - it didn't result to a pathetic flame war, although some of you people are attempting to start one against the moderators.