Keep piracy talk out of Emulation threads

[Chazore]

Ka-pi96 said:

Chazore said:

Yuri and co have been explaining, even providing links to sources of information and there is till "I don't think so" coming from the other side of things. So what are you supposed to say to those that blow up the info up in your face?. It's obvious that one side disagrees, no matter what info is tossed around.

Yes emulation is a Gray area, yet so far int eh discussion of it, emulation has been seen as non gray (with talks of piracy of course, that being the non gray area). Knowing about what is gray area nd what isn't actually does help. Not knowing what is and isn't gray doesn't add zip. It's like some old man coming into a store and blabbering as if he knows all the latest tech in the store, yet a clerk who knows more ends up correcting him, the old man declines the correction in turn.

Ignoring derailment doesn't actually stop the thread from being derailed. In fact we have rules about derailment in general, so it's a bit unfair to say ignore one form of derailment, yet another is taken care of for you, saving you having to ignore once instance of it. 

I get that that can be annoying, but stores don't ban those old men from coming in because of it

And I still don't think talking about piracy in an emulation thread is necessarily derailing. Criticising it and saying it could harm sales of games or consoles (especially when the game used to demonstrate the emulator is a recently released "exclusive") seems fair game to me.

But a store is nto a forum and yes there can be occasions where a store can ban someone. M&S here banned a man because he kept shopping for random items, then going rto checkout, "forgetting his card", leaving and then never coming back again until the same day a week later. He kept this up for 3 months until the store noticed a apattern emerging. 

A store can actually ban someone like a forum. Someone who disrupts the company from oeprating can also count, especially if the customer in question is causing issues on a constant basis. 

 

I find talking of piracy in an emu thread as a form fo derailment, because the subject in question is about emulation, recent subjects being on emulation advancements, not emulation piracy advencements, none of the emu thread makers in recent times on here have been at that, it's been the opposite so far. Those that aren't remotely interested in emulation also seem to pop up in the thread to talk about piracy when it's not even the subject of the thread at all, all that does is serve to derail because that person happens to be a super big fan of a company that the emu is related to.

I don't see it as fair game, I see it as legitimizing constant derailment because the shoe fits on one foot, but it won't for the others (like the generald erailment rule, which is in place and is picked up here and there).