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- SteveJobs24
One vote here for removal.
Though not for reasons of moderation, but rather a community that's grown rather stale, closed off, and too singular-minded - in my so humble and likely unwanted opinion.
I don't care so much for the quality of the content as I do for new, interesting folks, which add to the diversity and dilute the hive mindedness I see around here all too often. (ie. I'm not particularly for or aginst grafician's posts, but why is he always downvoted?) Feels a bit like high school around here at times and I think a cleaner community would be more welcoming for would-be contributors on the lurk and any who happen upon the site in the future.
Personally I've been wondering if this site, even as a distraction, is a good investment of my time at this stage of my life, but there's my input nonetheless.
- +1mort_
- I think the environment has improved quite a bit since 2019-2020, during peak Trump hysteriaFNP14
- R.I.P. Simonutopian
- Simon is more than his vocation. He seems to be a genuinely nice guy who doesn't cause drama. I have no problem with his sparsely posted professional work.SteveJobs
- Agree. Simon is a gent.mort_
- Simon could post in show some recent work. It's his job after all.PhanLo
- mort_7
Butt of the Day, boobs of the day, etc... it's like a forum for sex-starved teenage boys. I'm amazed there are any women who still log in here.
- <Nairn
- Ah yes the sex, Ive read all about itdrgs
- they are standing at the exit doors smoking , watchin the male monkeys goint at it...neverscared
- and drinking and giggeling of course.neverscared
- Morning_star4
This place is rather like one of those villages with increasingly elderly residents. A place that acknowledges that without new blood it will descend even further into a community of olympic standard bin shouters and dirty, but ultimately impotent, old bastards. Removing the T&A is like giving a new lick of paint to an unused bus stop.
What we need is a new discoteque.
- Why would any new users come here?PhanLo
- Why have any of us ended up here?Morning_star
- this place had a much bigger user base during the nt > qbn transition. the drama was epic, but so was the diversity and content.SteveJobs
- nb2
This reminds me of when industrial workplaces started making their workers remove nude calendars and sexual posters from their workstations. It was such a common thing when I started working, at around age 15 in the mid 90s. I remember a guy who ran a drill press or something and he had a grid of like 200 bikini girls cut from the local paper.
A lot of the men complained when the company finally made him take them down. They grumbled about women coming in and ruining the workplace. Sounds a lot like some of the people here.
Grow up.
- So he didn’t post gaping vagina on a teenager?monospaced
- omer1
I vote removal.
Thanks for asking
- nb2
I also think that QBN will always be considered a small-time, pathetic forum. No one in the industry takes it seriously. The QBN brand is very much male-dominated, insular and immature holdover from the days when web forums were a thing people cared about.
Maybe the QBN brand can change over time, and this is a step in the right direction, but it will take time.
Honestly, if you came here with no context and saw Boobs of the Day Butt of the Day Chick of the Day... who takes this seriously. I agree with _mort, above.
- drgs0
There isn't really much nudity in COTD. My last 4 post for illustration:
https://www.qbn.com/reply/402626…
https://www.qbn.com/reply/402623…
https://www.qbn.com/reply/402539…
https://www.qbn.com/reply/402378…It's circa how it was meant to be.
There is one user who posts obvious pornography, but I suggest you moderate the user, not the thread.
In fact, make it a challenge:
Keep boobs/butt/thighs of the day threads open for posting, but no nudity allowed! :)
- comicsans2
Shocked at the suggestion there is moderation given how so many bad-faith posters were left to roam unchecked for months. At least those threads kept everything in one place and the 'moderators' knew where to go.
- jonny_quest_lives-1
Accidentally clicking the NSFL thread and seeing a human penis squeezed flat between two pieces of glass like something out of that Hannibal TV show was enough to destroy my faith in humanity... Do what you must...
- oh the horror, the shock! Hope you're well now!ESKEMA
- take the pepsi challenge and peruse through that NSFL thread and see if you come out unscathed. shit in there probably has this site on a watchlist of some sortjonny_quest_lives
- i_monk5
Good. Long overdue.
I've said it before: I manage a small team of young female designers, and I would never, ever, direct them to join QBN because of the NSFW stuff.
There are a billion porn sites out there and a thousand ways to share tit and ass pics (and NSFL shit) with strangers. Do it there.
- I almost forgot this was a site for designersfooler
- Make QBN Great Againi_monk
- wait, there's porn on the internet??sarahfailin
- same. I know a bunch of great female ADs and CDs that don't know about this place but don't want to point them here bc of the filth.shellie
- shapesalad2
I think we need to think about how to have a better life. And so I agree with all the trash removal.
Perhaps a trashcan icon can be next to thread titles - and those that receive the most clicks per week are automatically binned.
- omahadesigns0
Good riddance.
- CyBrainX3
I'm voting against removal for NSFW threads. They are easily avoided. Getting rid of hate speech and such is worth removing.
- scarabin4
Weird that this comes up months after we took a poll and actually cared about it.
I was once banned for posting a shot of testicles. Just plain ol’ ballsack. Now it’s a political issue that must be belabored for a year.
Just make a decision, we’ll live with it. And if we don’t we’ll die mad. Who cares
- I wouldn't exactly say it's political. But I understand what you're saying.monospaced
- cannonball19780
I vote for removal, but I think removal is a partial solution and a bad one if it is the only step taken. Silencing a problem does not get rid of it.
- drgs4
Whose problem is it/who is bothered by it?
- the moderatormonospaced
- & we've all hinted this for a long time nowGuyFawkes
- I've literally never complained. I simply don't visit those pages, nor do I post in them. It's not hard to avoid, mostly.monospaced
- Once a year I'll go through the Boobs one, because ... boobs. :)monospaced
- exactly, and that's how it should beESKEMA
- noneck4
The NSFW stuff is embarrassing and is preventing grown-ups from engaging with the site.
- I don't agree. If more grown-ups would contribute more seriously good content, the nsfw would disappear by the weight of the better content.uan
- In that case we would benefit from more ways to share that content here- more media support. Gifv, reddit video, mp4, webp, etcscarabin
- uan, you just found the catch 22. we can't get eddie van halen unless we make a triumphant video, but we can't make a triumphant video without eddie van halen.SteveJobs