(October 27, 2015 at 11:30 pm)Losty Wrote: It actually really doesn't hurt anyone. A thread titled Nigger and started by an ex user named the same serves two purposes. The first is to show people just how they look when they're racist, like fools. The second is to show trolls just exactly how our staff deals with people who come here only to disrupt the forum.[...]
By letting their sh*t fester out in the open, for anyone to see? How is that supposed to accomplish anything? There's literarily nothing mods can do to a troll. The best thing to do about them is purge their sh*t and move on. If you think the next troll will be put off, after seeing how this one was banned, after sh*tting all over the forums for a while - I'm going to have to wholeheartedly disagree.
Sure, it can be argued that the word "nigger" as used by an obviously racist troll doesn't hurt anyone. But it doesn't look good either, which was my point.
Also - I don't have the "need" to star out anything - it's a convention I've adopted, since I didn't think anyone would have a problem with it. I stand corrected, although I still think more people get a negative feeling, while reading the word - regardless of context, than seeing it censored. Somebody update me on what the "consensus" is on that, please because I really don't give a flying f*** either way.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
