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Originally Posted by Soyweiser
Explain me this one thing. Why are the rules so important people? I don't get it.
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Okay. Let's start with the basics.
I don't have a right to post in this forum. You don't have a right to post in this forum. None of us do, save the Shrapnel staff. It is, effectively, a private club. And in a private club, you follow the rules regardless of whether you like them or not. Now, why is that, you ask?
Because I have entered a voluntary agreement, whereby in return for agreeing to follow the forum rules on this particular private forum (the price), I am extended the privilege of posting here (the benefit).
If I violate the forum rules consciously, then I violate my given word.
Which is something I will not do.
If I no longer wish to adhere to my side of the agreement or if I cannot in good conscience do so because I disagree with the rules, then I will no longer post in the forum.
This argument is good enough for me.
The question to you is then, given that you, too, have voluntarily entered this agreement, knowing full well what you agreed to as it was presented to you to read before joining and having all the time in the world to reread the agreement later on,
why is obeying the forum rules not important to you?