So part of my job over on Fur Affinity Forums is to keep some semblance of peace and order, which is basically the point of being a moderator. There are some rules, and they can't possibly cover everything everyone does, but they do a half-decent job. That noted, being stupid is not against the rules.

A few changes were made to the TOS/AUP here on FA, and they're documented over on the forum. But one change in particular has caused drama. It has caused more drama in just one day than during the entire month that FA was down in 2008. Cub porn is banned. The reason doesn't matter.

All porn is banned on FAF, and I'm just a regular nobody on FA, so there's in theory no change to what's expected of me.

In theory, there isn't a difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is.

I am trying to keep up with the cub porn ban thread, and I'm only 30-odd pages behind now. But in the nearly 200 pages of posts that I've read so far, I have encountered so much stupidity and sheer lack of observation -- some deliberately refusing to observe -- that my intelligence quotient has dropped a few points. I have seen butchered in just that single thread: politics, the law, diplomacy, national borders, the English language, history, anatomy, artistic abilities, religion, morality, literary fiction, biology, geography, biography, cinematography, computing, the World Wide Web, logistics, business management, philosophy, physics, and even hard mathematics.

So far.

When I do catch up, I'm going to take a furlough to go soak in a nice bubble bath of cosmology, physics, and mathematics to wash off the stupidity.

My current avatar is Twilight Sparkle from the new "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" TV series because I'm now hooked on it. It's not "oh no, I need to water my flowers!" anymore; now it's all "screw you, I'm taking away the sun forever!" My current avatar is facepalming because that's what I'm actually doing as I continue through that thread.

Well, that and popping aspirin, but drugs are bad mmkay?