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bring johnfaa back; lift the bann
Topic Started: Jun 15 2010, 04:17 AM (3,624 Views)
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Shut us down? That is rather extreme...
The Dreaded AOL Dial-Up has left me afraid to spend more than 5 minutes posting at risk of losing it all. Arghhh.

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I always knew nudity would make them delete the forum. Thanks for the full info Empyreon.
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How would they be informed of TOS violations?


Do they have a magic TOS Violation Crystal Ball of some sort?
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I think they go around and check all the forums or something. And then someone could always report the violation to Brandon.
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Seems like it.

And well said repitition there Empy!
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Jun 16 2010, 12:10 AM
I think they go around and check all the forums or something. And then someone could always report the violation to Brandon.
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What was he banned over???

Now, on a purely pragmatic basis, he's a useful guy to have around. He knows more about paleontology than any other member of this forum and he's good at constructive criticism. The rants about how all the worlds' problems are caused by Semitic religions are a pain in the arse, but I've always managed to ignore him (although it helps that he hardly ever specifically targets my religion...)

On the other hand, I'd like to quote him on DeviantArt full essay here.

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Again, as I said before, I would have no trouble in imposing what I believe to be right. Before I would be against the idea of killing, and in fact I still hate death penalty (more irony), but now I just don't care. Given how stupid christians, muslims, zionists, scientologists, mormons and animal rights activists can be, I really do not care if extremists live or die, and in fact I'd prefer them to die. Again, I know they are not always like that, but given that the vast majority does nothing but bring grief, pain and opression to this world I happen to live in, their demise would be the only rightful thing, because those extremists are useless.

I personally have no prefferences over who dies and how they die. To me, a televangelist can have his genitals smashed to pulp and bleed to death and a jihadist can have her breasts chopped off and be raped to death; I do not care, because they do not care about nothing except opressing humanity. In fact, given the extent of their stupidity, I would actually smile. If that happened to an inoccent people, I would be sad, but they are nowhere near inoccent, so they might as well have their bodies stinking of religious fanatism cutten into pieces and broken and violated in every possible way...

...Because I'm dead serious


Admittedly he didn't say it here, but... do we really want to be in contact with someone who holds these views? I've been cutting him a lot of slack because it sounds like he has it pretty tough in real life. But there's a point where the Freudian Excuse stops being a valid excuse, and in my opinion he hit it with that essay.

If we lost him, we'd lose a lot of paleontological expertise, but we'd live.
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i think empyreon is right, if we want to talk to people about only our worldview then we go to another site, nuff said
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I'll talk to people with the worldview "religion is bad and we should get rid of it" or people with the worldview "religion is essential and we should all convert to insert here". I'll talk to extreme left-wingers, I'll talk to extreme right-wingers. I've had friendly relationships with people who kept telling me that I should drop out of university to become a full-time mother. But I don't want to talk to anyone who wants their ideological enemies dead.

I'm not saying he's going to actually kill anyone. I'd be very surprised if he did. But wanting them dead? And wanting them to die horribly, and thinking about it in that much detail? No, I'm not tolerating that particular worldview.
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What other sites are there?
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Why Can't I Hold All These Mongols?

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You know, perhaps surprisingly to you, JohnFaa is relatively well behaved on this site. I've known him on a couple of others, and, well, stuff happened. Not good stuff
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Jun 15 2010, 07:20 PM
Why do we need John Faa? All he does is rant about how all christians are evil and offends many different people on many different levels. And for those of you who say that he encourages new members to join, I will tell you this. John faa degrades our reputation as a website and enrages and intimidates many members. If we want to encourage our growth and expansion as a website, John Faa should not be part of it. Nuff' said.
Well, I wouldn't go that far. Yes, he is insulting at times, but I do want him to stay a part of the site. I do honestly consider him a friend.

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You know, perhaps surprisingly to you, JohnFaa is relatively well behaved on this site. I've known him on a couple of others, and, well, stuff happened. Not good stuff


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I am still new here so I can't say I knew JohnFaa and what he was like. He seemed like a pretty decent guy to me but after reading what you guys post about him and some of the stuff that he typed himself, I don't really know anymore..... Has anyone here thought about adding a Rant section? And has anyone heard anything going against what JohnFaa has said in the forum? It's wierd because usually online communities have problems with members vouching for religions instead of against them.

Oh, and I agree that rules should be obeyed and punishments should be carried through if members break them, regardless of whether they were informative and/or nice people (most of the time), but is there really an extent to which someone can get into trouble for voicing their distaste for certain things on this forum? I mean, exactly how far can you go before you start attracting the attention of the forum administration? Does anyone think that in some cases with JohnFaa other people were just being a bit too sensitive? Just curious.
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Jun 15 2010, 07:20 PM
Why do we need John Faa? All he does is rant about how all christians are evil and offends many different people on many different levels. And for those of you who say that he encourages new members to join, I will tell you this. John faa degrades our reputation as a website and enrages and intimidates many members. If we want to encourage our growth and expansion as a website, John Faa should not be part of it. Nuff' said.
Well, I wouldn't go that far. Yes, he is insulting at times, but I do want him to stay a part of the site. I do honestly consider him a friend.

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You know, perhaps surprisingly to you, JohnFaa is relatively well behaved on this site. I've known him on a couple of others, and, well, stuff happened. Not good stuff


Wait... what?!
You consider him a firned? I don't consider anyone over the internet a friend. Haven't met you.

Lamna will probably be able to back me up on some counts.

Also, I don't think we have any fear of being shut down. I know a site that went to hell in a handbasket and didn't get shut down. It just..imploded. Getting hit by at least three hack attacks didn't help.
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