VOTE FOR JOKES

[Shazzie]

@Paolo Smythe

forums are communities. for sure, this particular community is united by quite a sombre commonality known as MS. but does this mean no humour is to be tolerated?

for me, i derive value from this resource in ways other than smiles from puns or ‘lame recycled’ jokes. i tend not to read the contributions from the more comedic members of this community; the woblyboys etc… nothing personal, i just ain’t in here for that. am i bothered that they are? not all. are they bothered that i am not? not at all.

i think if someone was so outraged as to complain about the presence of humour (good, bad or indifferent), well i think that is unfortunate. but we are a community and their sense of entitlement should be tolerated, just in the same way as the jokers should be allowed to persist.

create a clearly distinct thread or folder dedicated to humour (and cat videos etc…) and let people deal with this shitty illness in the best way they know how. life is not already tough enough for some eh?

Well written and well said Paolo. I for one am a big fan of Wb and Blossom for the cheer they bring to me but completely understand those who don’t like to entertain the jokes. Personal I reckon. If they help you through the day then why not?

Shazzie x

[BazzaBongo]

I vote for jokes.

With re-reading the explanation as to why jokes are no longer allowed I’m sure the reason was because visitors could be offended and/or jokes could give visitors a bad image of the mssociety website. So if memory serves me correctly and this is indeed the only reason why jokes have been removed and banned I propose a possible solution.

Create a forum section that only members can access called Members Only/Jokes whatever with a warning against viewing if a user is easily offended. This way only members have access and they can choice to view or not. As its members only no visitors will be able to view anything in this new forum section. If the moderators still have concerns that a member of the public may sign up just to view and then complain. All that needs to be done is a very simple disclaimer in the terms and conditions when a user signs up stating something a long the lines of Mssociety accepts no responsibility for the comments of users in the new section. Comments are of the users alone and do not reflect that of mssociety. As Mssociety does not monitor this section of the forums we advise anyone easily offended not to enter said section.

I’m no expert in law but the film industry get away with that sort disclaimer on dvds all the time and thats without needing to register and agree to it.

Just a thought

Baz