Thank god it only took 6 pages to finially get this out.Sylvus wrote:No one got banned for calling atokal a child molestor because it was in direct response to him either calling noel a cyber rapist or violating the same rules that cartalas did. Plus it wasn't a fucking attack on his picture.
In 5 minutes of searching I've found over 100 instances of cartalas calling dregor and kylere fat, as well as making fun of miir's wife's appearance in a picture that he posted. I'm sure there are even more than that, if I had the time and interest in searching for more. There were also a large number of homophobic posts that I think were directed at actual homosexuals but quotes don't show up in a search (as well as cartalas never entirely grasping the quote function) so I can't be certain who they were directed at. I'm not even sure if that's a no-no, as it isn't an attack on RL pictures, but it's another speeding ticket added onto his vehicular manslaughter charges nonetheless.
None of that really matters though because it wasn't the only reason he was banned. It was hardly even the main reason, though it was a bannable offense. He was banned because he was totally worthless, he was the biggest offender of the RL picture rule and because he challenged me to do it.
I am by no means encouraging people to stop attacking one another, no one ever has been. The rule about RL pictures has been in place since the first picture thread was ever posted, and it's probably because it's the main thing that has absolutely no impact on a group of what were once strangers interacting electronically through faceless computers. The rule was put in place because people wanted to get to know others better and see what they looked like, and that's difficult to get people to do if others are going to use the pictures as fuel for flames. When you're among a collection of minds detached from their bodies, the only things you should be making fun of are behaviors, actions, beliefs and intelligence.
Resorting to attacks on someone being fat or short or ugly or whatever is busch league and you should probably work on your game before you bring that shit around here. Or at least make it funny and use it (infrequently) in a flame war, rather than just following someone around doing it all the time, even doing it when the person hasn't even posted in a thread. Or use it in retaliation to a specific insult someone used on you. People are acting like 30 people in an imaginary fnord have been running around making personal attacks on people's appearance forever, and cartalas made one comment and was banned. That's not even close to the truth, in fact the truth is pretty much the opposite of that.
Cut the shit about the fnord or whatever, if I banned people because my friends asked me to, there'd be about 20 fewer people on this board. And Cartalas would have been banned 1000 times over the last 5 years. If I banned people because they had opinions that differed than mine or leaned a different way politically, about half the people that have posted on this page would have been banned long ago.
No one else on this board has anything to worry about unless they are completely worthless, continuously break the rules, and challenge me to ban them. With cartalas gone, there isn't even anyone here that I would call worthless anymore, not even people like Midnyte whose opinions I almost always disagree with and often cannot fathom. Skewed as it may be, at least he's posting an opinion.
My eyes hurt.
Or maybe you mean that it's never acceptable to brag about GRE scores, since you take them post-18, in which case I say fair point, sir. That said, Arb is a smart dude.
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