This post inspired me to add a sig to my posts; violating the law of Aristotle.
There’s a time and place for everything. This is a place for discussing flashlights, not plastering religious or political statements everywhere.
I think even having a thread/section devoted to discussions would be a poor choice, on the internet discussions like that rarely stay civil except in the most homogeneous communities.
The slippery slope is real. I’m not happy with this rule. It’s too heavy handed. Perhaps a better option would be to make it possible for the ‘offended’ to simply NOT SEE signatures at all, like the button that allows members to see a home page sans commercial posts.
But a signature is not a discussion.
Of course, if a signature attacks or flames people, it’s not acceptable.
Not sure what religious signature on BLF causes some people to get their panties in a twist, i only know of 1 religious (or rather theological) signature and it attacks or flames nobody.
Don’t you mind someone calling himself satan here? There’s at least 1 account with that name.
As for the gun control signature some of you may have in mind, it does not attack or flame people either.
(It’s not untrue either and it’s part of the US Constitution (and for good reasons), but that’s not important right now. 
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Get over it. People disagree about many things.
Man this whole site has too many rules! Overbearing moderation and such! Lets go start our own forum. We can call it economylightforum.com or something
You laugh, but that’s exactly why a few of the flashlight forums got their start, including THIS one, IIRC.
How do you find the time to be offended about these things when we have members who prefer 6000K tints w/ micro-usb charging built in? I can barely sleep at night knowing I share an online space with these members.
Dont you dis integrated USB charging man. 
Don’t you know that Internet is ruled by the Freedom Country ? Bible quotes are universal man, get over it or they’ll teach you to run faster than bullets !
Yeehaw !
That’s already been made available. You know how to find this stuff. You just need to know the magic word: “uncluttering”
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-ab&q=site%3Abudgetlightforum.com+uncluttering
That’s rather like one of the high points of the Usenet pre-WWW, the “killfile” — a tool that made it it the responsibility of the irritated to choose not to see whatever set them off.
“Doctor, I can’t help but flame when I see X”
“Then stop seeing X”
Not yet.
SB requests us to take note of the rules and decide ourselves.
Hmmm… That could be handy for when you’re on a smart phone too.
Save some much needed screen space.
I’m not sure which signatures on BLF trigger the ‘offended’.
But as long as they’re not attacking or flaming people, i don’t think it’s justified to deem it inappropriate.
But then still, there are limits to what is acceptable.
Quoting John 3:16 would be over the limit i.m.o., because it can be taken as implying judgement over a large group of people (rather than salvation of a not so large group of people (although interpretations vary about the ultimate size of that group of people)
Quoting a bit of Biblical theology about Christ being the Light (and the darkness not comprehending it (depending on the translation)) does no such thing.
Your signature, Dave, can be considered problematic too by today’s ‘feelings over facts’ standards.
My posts here in this topic can be considered problematic too, i guess…
Crazy times.
Someone said:
“1984 (the book by George Orwell) is not a warning, it’s a manual.”
Now you are flaming Christians.
I think BLF is still very ‘free’.
Self regulating too.
But the PC police censoring trend of today may threaten that freedom, so we discuss it.
Or has there been an increase in problematic signatures?
Wellp, let’s face it. There’ll always be someone who’ll find some way to be offended by anything. The “South Park” episode about a completely non-offensive all-inclusive Christmas Holiday all-inclusive non-denominational season play was a good exposé of such a thing.
A real-life example about “safe spaces” and “safe-learning” in universities was how intolerance was absolutely verboten. Someone who was a rather devout Christian had no personal hatred towards homosexuals, but was of the belief that it was a sin. “Hate the sin, but love the sinner”, and all that. Yet in class, he was absolutely terrified to even make mention of his beliefs, for fear of being sanctioned for various’n’sundry “hate crimes”. (And me personally, you couldn’t pay me to care any less whether someone sticks tab A into slot B or anything else, so don’t even start.)
Or people on campus who were forced to remove or at least cover up pro-Trump teeshirts a few years ago. Yet no one else with political slogans was told to do similarly. (Similarly, I’m apolitical, and think they’re all just flip-sides of the same statist coin, so don’t start.)
Hell, someone with the .signature of a simple “Jesus loves you!” could cause someone offense somehow. I work in a neighborhood with a pretty large Jewish contingent, went to a tailor, he wished me a Happy Hannukkah, and did I take offense, stress a Merry Christmas at him, or an “inclusive” Happy Holidays at him? No, of course not. Wished him a Happy Hannukkah right back and that was it, we both went away happy.
So any’n’all Professional Victims out there will find something to piss’n’moan about, no matter what your intent.
And, oh man, speaking of which, a few years back I had a discussion with got lectured at by a SJW, who went into everything from “microaggressions” to “white privilege”, and basically accusing me of being a racist just because I have white skin. Talk about “guilty until prov—… well, forever”.
So yeah, I agree with the whole “slippery slope” thing. Let things be handled on a case by case basis if need be, and just like the old “Rude!” buttons, let there be discretion, because you know some snowflake is going to flag something for whatever reason, no matter how inane.
Gotta find the Popcorn in this cabinet, this is going to a good night on the ol’ BLF 
I'm offended at being offended 
Seriously, I'm guessing there are about 3-4 members around here that get offended at just about anything/everything and possibly even at themselves too and hit the report button every chance they get.
I was about to reply on this thread but you intelligently covered it all for me. so thanks for that.
Although…. now I think about it, im offended :smiling_imp: that you covered what i was about to say! (joking)
Lets just hope everyone can get along and i honestly wish all the mods luck in a sometimes thankless job.
Happy new year to everyone.
I had George Carlin quote in my sig for a few years.
Admin removed it not long time ago, because multiple reports that someone felt offended by 5 times Grammy winner American comedian.
Watch this guy, try to understand the message before reporting offended. Sketch Life Is Worth Losing for a start
Mike