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I wouldn't have given a crap about it if it had been one picture, but I was at work and there were too many to scroll past quickly and ended up freezing my browser. I wasn't even using wireless internet and it still did it. I agree with Eris.
Boro_Bandito:
Man, spamming pictures of Bodybuilding She-Hulks is tame, what's really criminal are the never-ending quote tunnels that happened in a thread a while back, those will really freeze up a computer, and not even be interesting/mildly disgusting in the process. Of course then again maybe some people have more sensitive stomachs than me. Internet Shit just don't get to me no mo'.
But back on topic, I was linked that on facebook a while back, and it didn't interest me at all, but now that you've posted it, well, it doesn't interest me at all. The being sexually innapropriate with your friends thing is the only mildly interesting one on there, and that just wouldn't work with my friends. The others all sound horribly unimaginative, and are just there to fill up the month, which really is the most criminal thing of all. Of course, May 30th seems to have a rather strange and unsettling theme,International Blame it on _______ Day? Can't see that one backfiring, can we?
Storm Rider:
Man, the point is, the dude was being a tool for no reason, so he got temp banned. Whether or not the picture was the most offensive thing that has been posted on the forum is kind of irrelevant.
Chrasstor:
I think my posts in this thread have been greatly misunderstood. Wasn't porn, but I actually knew I was getting banned for it. I posted it like a bajillion times for Christ's sake. In reality, I'm just kind of disappointed by the mob mentality here. Most members don't come off as friendly, solely interacting with their own 'crew', so to speak. If I wanted this kind of shit I would just get more involved with stupid high-school communities. Basically, everything here is completely run by rep; some people can get away with anything/have everyone back them up. It's kind of ridiculous for an intarwebz forum to have such a malevolent community. For those who are all thinking "Man, if you hate the place so much gtfo", I just came back to see the reaction to my post out of boredom.
Also, it's pretty ridiculous that people are saying I was banned for having an opinion. It's pretty obvious that whoever banned me(tl;dr) just generally saw me as a nobody confronting somebodys and afterwards giving a valid reason for a banning. After all, general forum rules would be against that sort of thing... The reason some people were shocked because of my banning leads back to the whole 'some people get away with shit' reality of this forum.
I'm not upset about the banning, I obviously knew I would be banned for posting a picture 1000000... Not because it's the general rules of the forums, but because I don't have the cred to back that kind of behavior up. I know it's not a democracy in which everyone's treated equally(duh), but this whole class-structure shit is still too annoying for me. Some nice people are brought down by arrogant, pretentious vets, and that's kind of sad.
Go ahead and reply to this post, but don't expect a response to ensue, as I'm done with this place. I know if I read further, even out of curiosity, I'd be tempted to reply and start another on-going argument... So I won't even do that.
Cheers! [/drama]
est:
Chrasstor, I banned you because it looked like a dick thing to do and I know pretty much nothing about you, so I assumed you were doing it as a dick thing to do. From my perspective you got into an argument with a couple of people about something stupid, then posted a billion instances of a questionable picture. As for the meat of your complaint, it is composed ot two main sub-points. Allow me to address them presently:
Point 1: the forums are cliquish.
All forums are cliquish to varying degrees, that is just an inescapable occurrence. In fact, all social ongoing interactions are cliquish to a certain extent. On these forums some people get away with things like this due to it being less dickish than it appears, as in in-jokes toward people who'll get the reference. Some people get away with it because they do it in a way that is funnier/more intelligently executed than posting a borderline porn image (I don't give a fuck what people say, it looked like a tamer pic from a fitness fetish photo shoot to me), and to directly address something someone else said a couple of posts up: some people like Jeph get away with posting whale dicks because it's their goddamn forum and they can do whatever the fuck they want.
Point 2: the forums have a strong negative sentiment.
I do agree that there is a pretty strong negative sentiment on the boards these days. Do you have any ideas on how to combat it? I fail to see how your actions could possibly have improved things.
Also, as Han said earlier mods can't ban people, only admins can. Heather hardly ever comes around here anymore, Cristi doesn't either (and I think has only banned maybe one person ever?), and Ashton is a pretty hands-off admin. That means that if someone's been banned it's either me or Jeph that's done it. I can't speak for Jeph's attitude toward bannings (also: his forum, etc), but I will only ever ban people permanently for a damn good reason (joining only to spam, bad trolling, posting porn, constant unabashed asshattery) and am fairly lax with reasons why I'd even give you a temp-ban.
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