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[ZellSF]

How many disgusting images did you have to suffer through before you found the perfect one? Or did you just hae that one on tap?

You know, I kind of wondered that, too.

It was goatse, the first shock image anyone who has been on the internet a while knows about.

[RGC]

Goatse predates rotten.com?

[ZellSF]

Goatse predates rotten.com?

No, but most people can't quickly think of a specific rotten.com shock image.

[Teufel_in_Blau]

also udder's farewell thread got something like 270 views - draw you own conclusions from that

That was all me, F5'ing the thread while waiting for the mods to step in. >:(

Jokes aside I find it unfair making this kind of threads about users that can't defend themselves anymore. Maybe he didn't earn many sympathies while he was here but there is no need to celebrate his banning. He was a part of this community for quite some time and I'm sure seeing these kind of threads now is making him sad.

I highly doubt he joined this community to start fights with anyone on purpose. This is a niche forum and there are much better suited, bigger forums to insult other people.

[RNGmaster]

Jokes aside I find it unfair making this kind of threads about users that that can't defend themself anymore. Maybe he didn't earn many sympathies while he was here but there is no need to celebrate his banning. He was a part of this community for quite some time and I'm sure seeing these kind of threads now is making him sad.

I find it impossible to feel sorry for little shits like that. Mods should be willing to ban people who make the forum atmosphere worse.

He was always a tedious, unlikeable shit but I know that alone isn't enough.

See, this attitude is just silly. If someone won't behave maturely and socially on an internet forum, they don't need any specific "offenses" to be banned aside from being a generally reprehensible poster.

[jonny5]

Don't do it Mesh.

[O. Van Bruce]

This stuff should be handled purely by the mods... There is no need of some kind of forumite militia because there already is a report button.

Anyway, I'd never report someone for "trolling", just learn to counter it and if you can't, ignore it/report it.

[RNGmaster]

This stuff should be handled purely by the mods... There is no need of some kind of forumite militia because thete already is a report button.

Anyway, I'd never report someone for "trolling", just learn to counter it and if you can't ignore it/report it.

The issue isn't "trolling", it's being a genuinely awful person who makes the forum a worse place. Speaking of which, we don't need to hear your thoughts on every single issue that passes through your head.

[KAI]

Perfect example.

[O. Van Bruce]

This stuff should be handled purely by the mods... There is no need of some kind of forumite militia because thete already is a report button.

Anyway, I'd never report someone for "trolling", just learn to counter it and if you can't ignore it/report it.

The issue isn't "trolling", it's being a genuinely awful person who makes the forum a worse place. Speaking of which, we don't need to hear your thoughts on every single issue that passes through your head.

Just shut your ears then... or don't mind me. Can you be less of a moralist?

[Jon]

Can you be less of a moralist?

Self-awareness is not one of your strong suites.

[O. Van Bruce]

Can you be less of a moralist?

Self-awareness is not one of your strong suites.

If you say so...

[drauch]

How many disgusting images did you have to suffer through before you found the perfect one? Or did you just hae that one on tap?

You know, I kind of wondered that, too.

It was goatse, the first shock image anyone who has been on the internet a while knows about.

Right. Goatse.cx was originally just a .jpeg image, though, not a .gif.

[RNGmaster]

2 weeks? Noooooo. aren't you aware of the proud tradition of goatse ban-mes? They're supposed to be permanent bans!

Dropping the ball again, mods.

[Skykid]

Mesh is just in two weeks of required hibernation, he'll return at double strength.

[Udderdude]

If the mods want to see less threads like this pop up, maybe they shouldn't wait until an obvious troublemaker has pissed off more than half the forum before banning him. And I'm aware he recieved temp bans .. should've been permanent. I'm all for "Giving people a chance" but he was clearly not going to play nice, ever.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

Haha, people still get pissed as fuck at words on their screens. I still have absolutely no idea why but then again, I don't understand pedophilia or eating shit to get off either.... live and let live, I guess.

[O. Van Bruce]

Haha, people still get pissed as fuck at words on their screens. I still have absolutely no idea why but then again, I don't understand pedophilia or eating shit to get off either.... live and let live, I guess.

Pedophilia is a moral and ethical issue, pretty valid from my point of view I must say. But it's easy to understand. It happens when you see how quickly girls develop mentally and phisically nowadays. It's incredible how open minded and daring are some teenagers some times. Sadly I can't provide a source but it is believed that bettwen 70 and 80% of adult males have been attracted to girls bettwen 9 (when phisical changes start to happen on women) and 14 (when most of those changes have happened).

[Skykid]

Break out the popcorn.

[RGC]

There's no law against paedophilia, and neither is it an ethical issue. Child molestation and rape, however, are another matter entirely. Being sexually attracted to post-pubescent teens is quite healthy. (Most popular category on your average porn site?) Pre-pubescence, and you have a mental illness. Acting on those impulses is where any damage is done. Sorry, sometimes the obvious needs stating. The results of that study are a tad disturbing. Please find the source, OVB.

[O. Van Bruce]

Pre-pubescence, and you have a mental illness.

Say it to thousands of years of history on women being offered for marriage at very young age... To take some historical examples:

- Petrach's muse, Laura de Noves, was said to be 11 years old when he met her.. and supposedly he loved her from that moment onward

- Lewis Carroll created the Tale "Alice in Wonderland" for a little girl he felled in love with.

But, as you said, it's terrible to go after young girls or boys because, as we know now, the psicological consequences on then can be very bad.

[RGC]

Sure, mental illness has been around as long as there have been minds. It's dysfunction, like any other kind.

[O. Van Bruce]

Sure, mental illness has been around as long as there have been minds. It's dysfunction, like any other kind.

Just until some years ago homosexuality was treated as a mental sickness too...

[BulletMagnet]

Every "mod instinct" I have is telling me to lock this thing right this second, but I'm going to take a step back for the time being in hopes that no such action is needed...a warning to all who enter this conversation, however: tread carefully.

[KAI]

Are You There God? please close this thread before anything bad happens. Thanks in advance.

[O. Van Bruce]

Let me make clear something before, I think that my wording may have brought missunderstandings:

- I'm against any kind of sexual advances toward teenagers or kids. It may be something brought on instinct but paedophilia is something that should never be brought to reality because it acts upon something as defenceless as children. In resume, pedophilia can be understood but it can't be tolerated.

- I had no intentions of flaming the thread.

hope you forgive me if my wording made me sound like some pedophile english isn't my native language

[system11]

There's no way this thread can end well, so I'll just see that it ends.

Since Mesh posted a goatse on a forum that I pay for the hosting of every month, it feels pretty much like he walked into my house and took a shit on the floor. I'm strongly considering changing his ban to permanent and additionally firewalling him off from even reading it. Fed up of his abrasive and abusive posts which were honestly not much better than Paradigms half of the time. Pot, kettle etc.