You're not coming across as ranting at all, never worry about that.
The way I see forum rules is like this - general forum etiquette is the same as how one should act in real life social encounters - i.e. with respect/maturity/courtesy/fairness/helpfulness/don't be rude... basically it's that age old saying of treat others how you'd expect to be treated.
So this goes for everything from sexism, racism etc and you are right these standards should be in the rules. (I have now updated the first section to include it). We value your input and it means a lot to us that you bring these things to attention with us. So thankyou in advance.
In the past I had withheld from putting them in there as I dislike having to enforce basics principals upon the community - as I have respect towards everyone here enough to not want to have to outlay these basics in fineprint.
If people are coming across as sexist, racist, derogatory in any way, it's bottomline uncalled for, it's not cool, and nobody should have to put up with that shit on forums or in real life. I'm sorry to hear that this is not the case in other forums. I can say here on Autemo bring it to a staffs attention and the person in question will be reprimanded (banned) immediately. These people are tools and should be given the boot. So this goes out to all people - let me know if anybody is not adhering to these!
Post edited February 29, 2012 at 10:14:02 AM by MK211