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book_iconsFinally, I've edited the rules.
As always, please review them to make sure you know and understand them. Violaters will befed to the dragon mocked loudly politely asked to follow the rules.
On a slightly more serious note, it took a while to edit this rule because somebody had made the reasonable comment that additional rules may eventually lead to us unreasonably banning certain types of icons on whim. I would like to state that, while this is a reasonable fear, I think it is unlikely for two main reasons. First of all, because I believe our complicated "discuss every issue to death, and then vote on it" system will inhibit such destructive impulses, and secondly because both![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dandelion and I are lazy. We're not going to add rules just for the fun of enforcing them because that's not fun.
I want to clarify here that while we are serious about every last rule on that list, enforcement of the vast majority of them depends on somebody reporting to us that there's a problem. And since we're all capable of pretending to be mature individuals here, I would also like to add that you are within your rights to politely inform somebody of the rules before you tell us about them. (Unless you can't be polite, in which case you should contact a maintainer instead of deciding to backseat-mod.)
If you have any complaints, comments, or questions about the rules, please tell us here! Remember, this isn't my community except in a technical, dreary sense.
As always, please review them to make sure you know and understand them. Violaters will be
On a slightly more serious note, it took a while to edit this rule because somebody had made the reasonable comment that additional rules may eventually lead to us unreasonably banning certain types of icons on whim. I would like to state that, while this is a reasonable fear, I think it is unlikely for two main reasons. First of all, because I believe our complicated "discuss every issue to death, and then vote on it" system will inhibit such destructive impulses, and secondly because both
dandelion and I are lazy. We're not going to add rules just for the fun of enforcing them because that's not fun. I want to clarify here that while we are serious about every last rule on that list, enforcement of the vast majority of them depends on somebody reporting to us that there's a problem. And since we're all capable of pretending to be mature individuals here, I would also like to add that you are within your rights to politely inform somebody of the rules before you tell us about them. (Unless you can't be polite, in which case you should contact a maintainer instead of deciding to backseat-mod.)
If you have any complaints, comments, or questions about the rules, please tell us here! Remember, this isn't my community except in a technical, dreary sense.
