Talk:Ship Warring/@comment-4196911-20120622114116

I have a slight problem with classifying something like "Ship x will never happen" as automatic ship-warring.

Why? Because it's a bit of a blanket rule which doesn't take context into account. For example, a while back someone went crying to the Mods because I got into a discussion about Spam.

I basically (correctly) said that Spam couldn't happen because the network executives were too timid to allow a storyline like that to be filmed and aired. (The same could be said about Cam or Fencer, BTW.) I said it as a simple, true statement of fact - I wasn't trolling, or making some kind of value-judgement about those ships. My personal feelings about them didn't matter - I was just talking about the political and social realities about how decisions are made in the TV business, and what topics they are afraid to touch right now.

Didn't stop someone from wetting their diaper about what I said, however.

The point is we should understand the difference between a troll-ish person saying "Ship x will never happen" just to start a fight or get someone upset, and simply saying such things as statements of fact without trying to upset anyone.

Everyone knows that some ships can't happen in canon right now because of the current realities of show business, and the specifics of this show and the network that it's on. It's not a secret, everyone knows it, and I don't think there should be penalties for simply noticing something that everyone already agrees is true. People ship things all the time that they know can't happen on the show. Doesn't stop them from enjoying themselves. Happens all the time.

"We all know it's true, but you can't mention that" strikes me as too restrictive.