I don't get what you're saying.
Like you apparently didn't got what
Muttdoggy said.
My point was, if they're posting illegal content then rules won't matter.
It's a vicious circle that he described.
You let people post fictional content, what will draw the attention of some undesirable persons.
Those persons will starts to post fictional content made with real content ; like there's, here, games using porn photo/movies. But it will be text based content, with softcore photos as illustration. Since you permit drawing/rendering of effective act, innocent photos, even to illustrate crude text, must also be permit.
This will draw the attention of even less desirable persons. Them will post "fictional" content made with real and explicit content. Since you permit drawing/rendering of effective act and real photo, this must be permit too.
And in the end, since you permit real life content of act through fictional stories, why even bother with stories ?
Of course, it don't happen in one day, and not as obviously as this summary, but it's how it, alas, works. I don't know exactly at what step the hacktivists jumped in, but it don't really matters. Once you're tainted, it's really hard to get ride of those undesirables persons. If you try to change the rules, they'll try to force them back, and if you move, they'll follow you.
And it's precisely where the rules matters. If you draw a clear line, and draw it over all content, it's too difficult to find a breach to use, therefore they don't even try.
It's always what people tend to not understand when the rule 7 is explained to them. It's "to not draw the attention of the wrong persons", but it was never said that it's about the authorities, nor even about hacktivists.
The authorities are perfectly aware that this site exist. You can be sure that among the now more than 6 millions members, there's few from the FBI, Interpol, and some other agencies likes that. It's just that piracy, especially at this low level, doesn't interest them, they are more here for the discussions. There's probably also few hacktivists that know about it and, like the good anarchists most of them are, they let people be, as long as it hurt no one.
No, it have always been about the undesirable persons I talk about here, p*d*shits. There's probably some here, but the ridiculous ones, those who would grope their 15yo neighbor, eventually convince her to fuck. But the real ones, they don't like it here ; the most they can find is barely over ages purely 2D/3D characters, it have no interest.
If they're willing to break the law then they'd be willing to break forum rules too, so in that case it wouldn't make a difference if said rules existed or not.
Do you think about what you write ?
Murder is illegal, there's people who break their country rules (the thing called "Law") and commit murder. So, why bother with Law ? It's what you wrote, really, just applied at the side of a country.
There's rules like there's Law. Firstly to warn people that something is not permit, and secondly for you to enforce them when they are broke by someone.
It will never prevent people to try to broke them, but it make it more difficult for them to do it. It suffice of one witness, and you know about it, then act against it.
And, of course, with a web forum it's more difficult to be unnoticed than it is at the side of a country. Your content is not ephemeral, if you aren't caught on the act, your act will still be clearly seen later, as if it just happened.
