Timeline for Are Hackintosh questions off topic because of community consensus or just moderation policy?
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| Dec 31, 2018 at 22:53 | comment | added | Robert Columbia | @JourneymanGeek on the contrary, I don't see how information about Hackintosh technology is the same thing as actually violating a copyright or trademark. It's like the difference between talking about drugs, doing drugs, and dealing drugs - three different concepts. Just because you might have told me one time about that time you tried heroin doesn't mean that cop over there can bust you for selling an 8-ball to little kids. Also, see this excellent documentary by Magritte. | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 14:49 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | I believe that the reason I use when asked to back up deletions is the TOS - specifically part 3 and the lines that go "Subscriber represents, warrants and agrees that it will not contribute any Subscriber Content that (a) infringes, violates or otherwise interferes with any copyright or trademark of another party" There's no legal way to buy OS X/macOS without a apple system, ergo, hackintosh questions are against the TOS. Also... a lot of them are terrible. | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 2:44 | comment | added | fixer1234 | I agree with your 1st sentence, and then it gets hazy. Things that are based entirely on community consensus when the community is split can become a moderation nightmare. As the scale tilts one way or the other, subjects could cycle in and out of being on-topic. On-topic questions would go off-topic and get closed, possibly deleted, and then the topic could become OK again. That would lead to unhappy contributors. Topics like this should be tied to some underlying principle, which at most, allows for controlled evolution. | |
| Jun 29, 2016 at 21:37 | history | answered | TRiG | CC BY-SA 3.0 |