OK... looks like everyone has done airing his grievances.
Let me try to make some sense for topic drift/OT/argument/trolling/moderation here.
In general I am against censorship or over-policing in most forums. Especially Akiba Online isn't exactly the busiest of forums, if lots of people feel that his/er post might be policed or censored or moderated, it's going to discourage participation.
So is it possible to keep a free and open conversation without too much moderation AND also minimize annoyance/offense to the majority of AO forum visitors? I think we can.
I'm notorious for drifting topics, so
mea culpa. But I try to ALWAYS keep the drift distance manageable, each of my post still maintain a connection to the opening post. Actually I think I can always drift the topic back to the OP without much effort.
If many posts in a row have gone so OT that most ppl can't make sense of the relation to the OP, then there's a problem and hopefully the 2 or 3 participants of the OT conversation would be considerate to other visitor, noticed that it's gone uninteresting to most people clicking into this forum or thread and take the conversation somewhere else. Leave a link in here, in case any bystanders also want to follow the new topic.
For Cyndi Wong, I think
@kharo88 is actually a little bit more guilty than others in going OT. The bodybuilding stuffs... yeah it's more disruptive maybe, due to the large number of long posts, but at least it DID come out of the OP (via some topic drift) and it could hook back to the OP somehow. But Cyndi Wong came out of nowhere, and can go nowhere back to OP, this topic isn't even about fav idols by any means. And you didn't even have a sparring partner... at least I understand the other guys feel that an argument isn't settled yet and kept going back and forth... I understand you are trying to point out some posts being annoyingly OT, but expressing that by doubling down on annoyingly OT posts yourself... that's a bit uncool. Not trying to single you out or anything... you don't have to accept my view. I just like this (admittedly) small community to think about OT or etiquette on here.
As for the bodybuilding stuffs... I really am not following what the argument is about... so jumbled... I just want to say one thing that kinda hook back to the OP: both cases we have some business that exploit certain weakness of either male or female customers or workers. But the
mainstream society seems to take a biased view how much males vs. females need protection or decision made for them. So abusive employment practice or body-shaming ads targeting males are ok because
society thinks that men can or should be able to take it, handling himself, make his own decision. But women, because of what? They are stupid? Weak? Women see an "unrealistic" body in yellow bikini, they would go and have an eating disorder. Or a woman can't handle her money problems and/or family pressure and so her making 100 porn videos is a kind of crime against her human right or free will or something.
