Rant about the double standards... Options

[cupcake]

This forum has, over the past several years, been the most abrasive, crude, and oftentimes disturbing forums I have been on.

I'm sure there are meaner ones...but I don't get a kick out of that shit so I wouldnt' know/care, but I am on several other normal forums, and the shit on this site is by far the worst.

That is what I have come to expect from techsans.net. Free speach almost to the point of cruelty.

Which is why I find it interesting that a Mod deleted someone's comments on that Amber Alert thread in the news forum; apparently the Mod knew the father of the baby.

I agree that any comments on that are in poor taste, and not to my liking...but since when the fuck did any of that matter on here?

I'm not going to do your homework for you, but you guys have taken countless tragedies and made jokes on them...used fucked up pictures as punchlines, etc. Do I find it offensive? Yeah pretty much daily I am offended by something on here, because I am a sweetheart

However since you actually KNOW someone the tragedy is centered around, THAT is when censorship and your moral high road are justified?

I call bullshit. You guys can't have it both ways. You cannot be calloused, sick reprobates about most things, then selectively act all mother theresa. Just because you know the guy? Big fuckin deal.

rant off

[TetraGrammaton C...]

i am sure in the general fecal scheme of things that no one gives two shits about my thoughts, but everyone else is talking . . .

yeah, maybe what zack did was wrong, but it is not like we entered an era of dictatorial mod censorship. it is obviously in the minority of occurrences. If people here are so easily able to shrug off disgusting pictures and other lewd comments, why is it so hard to blow off one small post editing?

yeah, i know the dad too, maybe not as well as zack, but i know him. i think he is a cool guy, but i don't really edit things like that because i don't think they resolve anything. it is more important to use words and reason against others' words. if we just jump to action and censorship, then nothing gets resolved and we establish (unstable) power hierarchies.

the real question here is not whether or not zack did something wrong, but whether or not there should be a new specific process/criteria list for modding in general. and do not try to presume that the modding of one person accounts for the state of the entire board.

i don't mod anything for offensiveness, because i rarely find anything that offending. it usually just makes me laugh that sort of awkward "oh what the hell" laugh.
but what if we deleted your posts (jessica and zack) making fun of cathryn, because she is ill informed. instead of mocking her, you should provide helpful information to bring her up to speed. is that really what you people want the forums to be like? a joyless wasteland of sheer data exchange?

and alex do you really think this board is a group of friends? it seems more like groups of passive enemies, though there are small "cliques" that can overlap. i think the only thing we are united in is our dissidence and maybe that is enough.

[pysex]

and alex do you really think this board is a group of friends? it seems more like groups of passive enemies, though there are small "cliques" that can overlap. i think the only thing we are united in is our dissidence and maybe that is enough.

TRUTH.

Aren't all friends just passive enemies?