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Tom Foppiano

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"Terms of Service"
« on: January 21, 2012, 09:38:54 PM »

F. Chronic expressions of direct abuse toward a collective ethnic group of people will not be tolerated. If you collectivize a group of people by their genotype and make directly negative comments about said group you are treading thin ice.  The determination of the words “Ethnic group” and “Chronic” shall be left to the discretion of the moderators.

Read that paragraph....its funny. It seems we are allowed to "collectivize a group of people by their genotype and make..." positive comments.

Purple people are awesome!
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« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2012, 10:12:24 PM »

If I see one user start any bullshit by posting "friendly" post about "How Jews are so great because they're thrifty." or black people are awesome "Because they're just so darned athletic!" THEY WILL BE BANNED and I will blame you for it.

WHARGARBL.
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« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2012, 12:19:00 AM »

If I see one user start any bullshit by posting "friendly" post about "How Jews are so great because they're thrifty." or black people are awesome "Because they're just so darned athletic!" THEY WILL BE BANNED and I will blame you for it.

WHARGARBL.

Srsly?

Surely ya ain't...
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« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2012, 12:23:04 AM »

Srsly?

Surely ya ain't...

Of course not silly.

Well, semi serious I guess. If the point becomes to make blatantly racist comments and try to get away with it somebody would probably get chewed out I guess.

I was making the point that lawyering the TOS with the mods is ultimately a losing position.

Bonerjoe, for example, made just this sort of post, obviously tongue in cheek.

Just don't start testing the fucking waters is all I'm saying, and I was trying to say it in a fairly lighthearted way.

Hence the WHARGARBL at the end.
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« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2012, 02:45:57 PM »

Do you guys not see the difference between, say, an honest disagreement that might even get kind of heated or playful goofing around and poking fun, versus purposefully trying to stir up shit? It's like someone who goes to the bar to start a fight for their own entertainment much to the chagrin of the other patrons of the bar.

So the "bar" has some bouncers around for those people to keep the bar fun, and you think the bouncers should just stand there and take it when the shit-starter is trying to start a fight with them. As the Shaw would say "That's fucked up, yo".

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« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2012, 02:52:49 PM »

Do you guys not see the difference between, say, an honest disagreement that might even get kind of heated or playful goofing around and poking fun, versus purposefully trying to stir up shit? It's like someone who goes to the bar to start a fight for their own entertainment much to the chagrin of the other patrons of the bar.

So the "bar" has some bouncers around for those people to keep the bar fun, and you think the bouncers should just stand there and take it when the shit-starter is trying to start a fight with them. As the Shaw would say "That's fucked up, yo".


This doesn't address what Tom was sayin at all, or me really.

Maybe I'm just totally out of touch, but I've never seen any drama here to create such serious butthurt. So to me it's needless worry, which ain't a big deal.
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« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2012, 02:54:30 PM »

I think I got my threads crossed.

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« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2012, 04:36:05 PM »

If I see one user start any bullshit by posting "friendly" post about "How Jews are so great because they're thrifty." or black people are awesome "Because they're just so darned athletic!" THEY WILL BE BANNED and I will blame you for it.

WHARGARBL.

Whoever it was that reported this post by Shaw to the mods, please do me the favor of administering a sharp slap to the back of your own head, so that I can get back to what I was doing. Pointing out the consequences for getting cute with loopholes does not constitute a violation of the TOS, and you damn well know it.
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« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2012, 04:44:15 PM »

OH SHI-
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« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2012, 04:52:46 PM »

OH SHI-

It's ridiculous the amount of direct crap you guys put up with, without adding this sort of stuff to the pile.

Your patience is impressive.* I'd be in permanent meltdown.


*And I say that as someone who deals with large groups of preteens/teens on a regular basis.
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« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2012, 05:10:34 PM »

Thank you!

It's amazing how mods are automagically labelled ENEMY and treated as such until they lash out, causing the abusers to call themselves "persecuted".

It's like a lot of Christians I've met.

"If we're being persecuted then we're doing the right thing because gawd sez we're supposed to be persecuted so anything we do no matter how annoying it is totally justifies our behavior and shows that gawd is on our side."

The BBS version -

"The mods are all tyrannical, see how they get mad and ban people when we tell them how tyrannical they are while shitting on their corm flakes daily?"

Circular reasoning + Self fulfilling prophecy = Fail.
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Re: "Terms of Service"
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2012, 05:17:03 PM »

Oh, boy. This thread is just a joke, guys and gals. I was simply pointing out something I thought was funny. It was not meant as something serious, nor was it meant as a persecution against the mods.
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« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2012, 05:20:26 PM »

Oh, boy. This thread is just a joke, guys and gals. I was simply pointing out something I thought was funny. It was not meant as something serious, nor was it meant as a persecution against the mods.

No one thinks sto, Tom. It's all good.

You aren't the focus of any of this so no worries at all.

By the way?

<<<Wrote the TOS.  :P
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« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2012, 05:25:18 PM »

Hahaha....

You wrote it? Oh, that's funny. I thought I was poking fun at Ian.

There's no way you could have included everything that is unacceptable. Its impossible.
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« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2012, 05:29:16 PM »

There's no way you could have included everything that is unacceptable. Its impossible.

I agree. Tell that to the other users. ;-)

That's why "Discretion of the moderators." gets a lot of love in the revised TOS.
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