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[Samurai]

So, I guess you just don't "get it".

Links require active downloading.

Posting graphic pictures is a passive event.

Just realize you fucked up and move on. geez.

What does it matter whether a link needs d/l or not? The video clips were embedded in a webpage so they played as soon as you click on them.

I've already said I made an error posting the pic but it's like I'm being used as a scape goat here.

[hobbes]

What does it matter whether a link needs d/l or not? The video clips were embedded in a webpage so they played as soon as you click on them.

I've already said I made an error posting the pic but it's like I'm being used as a scape goat here.

I have no problem with you, and I wish you well. I just didn't appreciate being surprised by that picture.

I did not encourage nor support your ban, but I think you should have known better when you posted that picture.

Scapegoat to what end? This forum is just about dead.

[Busyman]

I said it was a gross lapse of judgement. I gave our rules on sexual content for perspective.

Agreed and some people are dicks.

Make a lane change on open highway without signaling and a cop may give you a ticket for it.

He's a dick even if you knew the rules.

Judges many times throw the case out if you had a clean driving record.

[NikkiD]

If you have something against said member, you piss and complain.

If not, you pm him and advise.

Pretty simple.

Repeat offender, moderation...leading to ban if still repeating.

Keep in mind what I was moderated for....not being helpful.

That's pretty much what I was trying to say - I'm pretty sure Samurai isn't a repeat offender.

Picture, link, doesn't matter - graphic is graphic, and both are generally treated the same way from a mod standpoint - removed. PM to poster if it's a first offense, moderation if it isn't.

I'm not saying it should have been left up, or that good judgement was used in posting it. I was commenting that moderation might have been a bit harsh for a first time offense.

[Busyman]

That's pretty much what I was trying to say - I'm pretty sure Samurai isn't a repeat offender.

Picture, link, doesn't matter - graphic is graphic, and both are generally treated the same way from a mod standpoint - removed. PM to poster if it's a first offense, moderation if it isn't.

I'm not saying it should have been left up, or that good judgement was used in posting it. I was commenting that moderation might have been a bit harsh for a first time offense.

[Rip The Jacker]

Why is it so suprising that action was taken against you Samurai?

You posted a picture of a guy whose brains had been blown out, that's disturbing, its against rule 7. If you had posted a link with a warning above it, that'd would have been fine. If you had posted the picture in a spoiler tag, with a warning above it, that would have been fine. But no, that damn picture was right there, as I was scrolling down. What did you expect? You know better.

Now the question is, was moderation too harsh? I don't know, maybe. Hell, at some of the forum's I've been to, if you so much as think about breaking a rule, you get banned. You knew that posting that picture was unacceptable, yet you still did it the way you did.

[Samurai]

Why is it so suprising that action was taken against you Samurai?

You posted a picture of a guy whose brains had been blown out, that's disturbing, its against rule 7. If you had posted a link with a warning above it, that'd would have been fine. If you had posted the picture in a spoiler tag, with a warning above it, that would have been fine. But no, that damn picture was right there, as I was scrolling down. What did you expect? You know better.

Now the question is, was moderation too harsh? I don't know, maybe. Hell, at some of the forum's I've been to, if you so much as think about breaking a rule, you get banned. You knew that posting that picture was unacceptable, yet you still did it the way you did.

So posting direct links to video clips of executions is ok?

Check. I'm with ya now.

Why stop there? I'm sure if I look hard enough I'll come across some child porn that others can scrutinize over.

At the end of the day I was singled out over this episode and was put on moderation because of it. What is deemed unfit in your eyes is deemed ok in others. I believe you went too far the other day, and didn't even give me the courtesy of sending me a PM. Perhaps seeing 2 video clips in the same thread page showing executions somehow made me think that the pic wouldn't have been so bad, but no. I was punished for it where the video clips were ignored.

As for other forums policies, that is a different story. It was posted in here, and not anywhere else. I too also frequent other forums and they wouldn't think twice about the pic then they would about the videos (which I'm almost positive would have been removed).

Was the moderation too harsh? You're damned right it was

[Virtualbody1234]

This whole thread is against the rules:

12. Decisions of the Administrators or Moderators ARE NOT up to public discussion or questioning and will not be tolerated. Complaints concerning moderators or their actions may be discussed with that moderator or brought to the attention of an administrator by means of a Private Message (PM).

[GepperRankins]

azad posted links to the videos, then posted a summary and warning of the content. if i didn't want to see them i didn't have to.

you posted a high resolution picture of a guy shot in the head, if one looks in the thread they can't decide not to look at that.


quit bitching, it was obvious it wouldn't go down well and it broke the rules.

[NikkiD]

There's no distinction between linking or direct posting in the rules. The whole point of the rule is to protect younger members from seeing what may be too disturbing. Doesn't matter if it's a link or a direct post, they're going to click on a link anyway.

The rule in question:

7. Posting pictures or links to pictures which contain graphic images of a disturbing or offensive nature will also be deleted without notice.

The links to the videos were left alone, at least until the point that Samurai posted his pic - I don't know, haven't looked to see if they're still there - and I've seen many occasions where things of this nature have been left alone. I've also seen many occasions where links to such caused as much of a stir as pics embedded in posts. I've personally questioned why such links were left alone and been told it's because it's WNE (or at least was at the time).