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| Spinosaurus Rex | Jun 15 2010, 11:49 PM Post #31 |
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Shut us down? That is rather extreme... |
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| Pando | Jun 15 2010, 11:50 PM Post #32 |
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Obey or I'll send you to the moon
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I always knew nudity would make them delete the forum. Thanks for the full info Empyreon. |
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| Spinosaurus Rex | Jun 15 2010, 11:54 PM Post #33 |
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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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| Pando | Jun 16 2010, 12:10 AM Post #34 |
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Obey or I'll send you to the moon
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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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| Canis Lupis | Jun 16 2010, 12:11 AM Post #35 |
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.
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Seems like it. And well said repitition there Empy! |
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| Spinosaurus Rex | Jun 16 2010, 12:17 AM Post #36 |
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Every forum?! ![]()
Edited by Spinosaurus Rex, Jun 16 2010, 12:19 AM.
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| Margaret Pye | Jun 16 2010, 01:05 AM Post #37 |
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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.
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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| seascorpion | Jun 16 2010, 01:13 AM Post #38 |
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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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| Margaret Pye | Jun 16 2010, 01:22 AM Post #39 |
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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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| SIngemeister | Jun 16 2010, 01:23 AM Post #40 |
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What other sites are there? |
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My Deviantart RRRAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!!! | |
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| seascorpion | Jun 16 2010, 03:26 AM Post #41 |
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you want to talk to gay people - gay youth corner artists-deviantart gamblers- poker-strategy-forums starcraft2?- SC11 forum |
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| SIngemeister | Jun 16 2010, 05:37 AM Post #42 |
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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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| Temporary | Jun 16 2010, 09:31 AM Post #43 |
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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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| Ammonite | Jun 16 2010, 09:55 AM Post #44 |
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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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| SIngemeister | Jun 16 2010, 01:45 PM Post #45 |
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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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