A group that regulary communicates builds a community. (by sociology definition) regardless if it is aware that it is one or not.

All kdice-players are therefore a community.
Forums readers are a subcommunity because communication on the forum is a bit more dense than over the games.

Ok fuzzycat. I should agree with your definition.

But there are still some other questions! How do you know what the majority think about this?

And even the players who don´t like to extremly porn-avatars here on kdice don´t want to ban some players...

And these rules aren´t written anywhere. Ryan goes to ban some players, ok. But the rest is anarchy!

"But there are still some other questions! How do you know what the majority think about this?"

Well you'll see the general picture yourself. People who dont voice their oppinion are disregardet. Its just the same like when you don't vote on elections. The opinion of people are countet who DO vote.

"And even the players who don´t like to extremly porn-avatars here on kdice don´t want to ban some players..."

That are 2 different things better to be seperated
a) we don't want porn avatars
b) we ban people using them.
I go definitely with a), but I do see different options to b), like just deleting these avatars, or you can use your imiganition what we else could be done.

"And these rules aren´t written anywhere."
Rules of communities don't have to be written down. Yes advanced socieities have written them down, but this is not a mandatory.

Look like your "real-friends" there is the rule: "If you make an appointment, be on time, but up to 10 minutes are tolerated" (at least in my friendships this the rule). It is not written down, yet you get "punished" if you ignore it, without having a proper excuse. (e.g. cancel of friendship if this happens more often).

So - these are your rules. For exampls I´ve got a friend, who´s always to late about one or two hours... but he´s still our friend. And if we invite him to a supper, he´ve got a special time - about one hour earlier then the others.

Here are also a lot of posts contra. Please don´t ignore them! And I don´t like to have an executive police without an representive board behind...

My and your friends are also not one community :-) that is we do not communicate regulary with each other.

Of course different groups have different opinions, there is not one "right" one.

ok, it's pretty funny when soft porn avatar chivas advocates censoring others, but it's hi-larious when it counts as anti-porn votes the many folks who clearly voted for her idea so that they could have their porn avatars show up in the "people who support this idea section". Go away censors, we don't want or need you here.

A few points to consider:
1) Ryan is the benevolent dictator who decides what is acceptable on his site.
2) He has given people the right to complain to him about content, and also the right to complain about the complainers.
3) If you have a problem with people who don't like porn on the site because you want to display porn as your avatar, why are you so offended? Their "free speech" is no less valid than yours unless Ryan says it is.
4) From what Ryan has said and done in response to racist and abusive language and pornographic avatars, it seems that he wants to have a reasonable balance between giving users some freedom in what they say in the forum and chat, and in their choice of avatars, while also making sure that words or pictures that a substantial number of players would find offensive or abusive are kept to a minimum. My guess, although he hasn't said so explicitly, is that Ryan wants to keep content clean and friendly so that the number of players is as large as possible. He has to balance between pissing off too many people by banning too much, and pissing off too many people by banning too little. So far, it looks like he has done a good balancing act.

We have an option to click on an avatar to remove the picture, so that is a temporary solution. (though you still see it once)

Maybe Ryan can't implement a setting so that people can select never to see an avatar at all (or possibly again, but that requires a lot more complexity).

Some 'rules' about some kind of avatars not allowed is hard to enforce, requires insane amounts of time, and is constantly open to discussion (I wan't all female avatars to wear a Bhurka, it offends me other wise, Breasts Oh NOOS, cats scare me, ad infinitum).

"""We have an option to click on an avatar to remove the picture, so that is a temporary solution. (though you still see it once) """

For the thousends time, you generally DONT have this option in forums!

wow i always thought xicas pic was bruce lee until i read aixos comment