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PSA: PLEASE READ
#51
RE: PSA: PLEASE READ
(June 2, 2023 at 6:33 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I am going to try again.

A forum member asked staff if they could post a video that had no reason except to use a specific racial slur.  That member was told that would be breaking a rule.  After a short time out they came back and posted another video with the sole purpose of using the above-mentioned slur.  

Please feel free to disagree.

Instead of treating an asshole like an asshole (is that a slur btw?) deserves, the staff decided to gag every single member of the forum instead? Does not compute here.
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#52
RE: PSA: PLEASE READ
(June 3, 2023 at 2:03 pm)Deesse23 Wrote:
(June 2, 2023 at 6:33 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I am going to try again.

A forum member asked staff if they could post a video that had no reason except to use a specific racial slur.  That member was told that would be breaking a rule.  After a short time out they came back and posted another video with the sole purpose of using the above-mentioned slur.  

Please feel free to disagree.

Instead of treating an asshole like an asshole (is that a slur btw?) deserves, the staff decided to gag every single member of the forum instead? Does not compute here.

Again, this is a reminder - the hate speech rule has been in place for years. You can use all the slurs you want regarding race, gender, sex, and sexual orientation you want, you just can’t do it here.

If having a rule against denigrating other human beings for those reasons strikes you as a gag, I’m truly sorry.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#53
RE: PSA: PLEASE READ
(June 3, 2023 at 2:03 pm)Deesse23 Wrote:
(June 2, 2023 at 6:33 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I am going to try again.

A forum member asked staff if they could post a video that had no reason except to use a specific racial slur.  That member was told that would be breaking a rule.  After a short time out they came back and posted another video with the sole purpose of using the above-mentioned slur.  

Please feel free to disagree.

Instead of treating an asshole like an asshole (is that a slur btw?) deserves, the staff decided to gag every single member of the forum instead? Does not compute here.

If you feel as though you are being limited by not being able to use a racial slur, I must say I am surprised.  You seem to be a pretty decent sort who doesn't feel the need to find 'cutesy' videos just so you can use the N word on the forum.  Particularly after asking if it's okay and being told that it isn't okay.

There's no doubt in my mind that there are plenty of forums where using such language is not only accepted but expected and possibly required.  This is not that place.
  
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#54
RE: PSA: PLEASE READ
(June 3, 2023 at 3:57 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: [

If you feel as though you are being limited by not being able to use a racial slur, I must say I am surprised.  You seem to be a pretty decent sort who doesn't feel the need to find 'cutesy' videos just so you can use the N word on the forum.  Particularly after asking if it's okay and being told that it isn't okay.

There's no doubt in my mind that there are plenty of forums where using such language is not only accepted but expected and possibly required.  This is not that place.

AD allows for a great deal more to be expressed, they consider it a part of free speech.
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#55
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(June 3, 2023 at 7:20 pm)Tomato Wrote:
(June 3, 2023 at 3:57 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: [

If you feel as though you are being limited by not being able to use a racial slur, I must say I am surprised.  You seem to be a pretty decent sort who doesn't feel the need to find 'cutesy' videos just so you can use the N word on the forum.  Particularly after asking if it's okay and being told that it isn't okay.

There's no doubt in my mind that there are plenty of forums where using such language is not only accepted but expected and possibly required.  This is not that place.

AD allows for a great deal more to be expressed, they consider it a part of free speech.

There is a reason there is more than one forum.  Different strokes for different folks.

This is not AD.
  
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
                                      
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#56
RE: PSA: PLEASE READ
(June 3, 2023 at 7:20 pm)Tomato Wrote:
(June 3, 2023 at 3:57 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: [

If you feel as though you are being limited by not being able to use a racial slur, I must say I am surprised.  You seem to be a pretty decent sort who doesn't feel the need to find 'cutesy' videos just so you can use the N word on the forum.  Particularly after asking if it's okay and being told that it isn't okay.

There's no doubt in my mind that there are plenty of forums where using such language is not only accepted but expected and possibly required.  This is not that place.

AD allows for a great deal more to be expressed, they consider it a part of free speech.

AD also has a long-standing rape apologist as a member, Of which is why I never went back.
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#57
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(June 2, 2023 at 11:56 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: That depends… can you do so without using the N-word or any similar ethnic slur?

Sigh, I guess I can just type WTF alone.
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#58
RE: PSA: PLEASE READ
(June 3, 2023 at 7:49 pm)AkiraTheViking Wrote:
(June 2, 2023 at 11:56 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: That depends… can you do so without using the N-word or any similar ethnic slur?

Sigh, I guess I can just type WTF alone.

It’s not a rule about swearing.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#59
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#60
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Does the policy recognize the mention/use distinction?
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