[ASLO] SpaceWar and Tank Operation

[Walter Bender]

I guess we agree to disagree. But if moderation is not to moderate
content, where/who does that moderation?

Supporting non-Sugar apps is a plus, but it is orthogonal to the issue
at hand, which is what activities are officially endorsed by Sugar
Labs.

regards.

-walter

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Sebastian Silva
<sebastian at fuentelibre.org> wrote:
> Tanks are an unfortunate reality in all of our lives. Sprites are less of a
> problem, really.
>
> I disagree moderation should deal with stylistic issues, other than
> obviously offensive, violent, or sexually innapropriate content. And
> licenses.
>
> If not sugarized icons are a problem, then we loose about half the
> activities in ASLO.
> BTW I think we're supporting non-sugarized icons for next release ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Sebastian
>
> El lun, 31 de mar 2014 a las 7:40 AM, Walter Bender
> <walter.bender at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> The link you provide refers to violence as a reason to remove an activity.
> As we discussed when looking at the original request, tanks are an
> unfortunate reality in the lives of some of our users. Lionel in fact put
> out a call for help updating the artwork to use a different metaphor. The
> link also states that the icons should be sugarized. Moderation is in regard
> to all aspects of the activity, not just in regard to spam. regards. -walter
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hi, I don't remember reading about those decisions. I am unaware of changes
> in http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Editors/Policy Currently it
> says nothing about censorship by name or sprite warfare. Please update. I
> would think moderation in ASLO would be to prevent spam, not to curate
> artwork. Regards, Sebastian El lun, 31 de mar 2014 a las 7:23 AM, Walter
> Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> escribió: I have an issue with the release
> of both of these activities: * While one could argue that SpaceWars is
> pretty abstract, the name could be changed. And the icon is not "sugarized".
> * Tank Operations, as has already been discussed, uses a metaphor that is
> not appropriate for our audience. We had agreed to change artwork before
> releasing this activity. regards. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>
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