International board, or something, and the mods, and ciao

[Kralizec]

* Somehow you can not joke about 9/11. You can joke about pretty much anything else, fags, africans, women, immigrants, polish people - list goes on- but don't you dare joke about some 3000 americans who died some ten years ago.

* A thread about 9/11 is sensitive to our american friends. More so than threads using gay in a derogatory meaning is sensitive to our gay members. Also immigrants will not take offence to slurs about immigrants. Do not get me started on the arab and negro thing. Thank god we have such a nice board with people properly into the american thinking, so we don't have to cater for the more unwanted beings in society.

You can't tell by my looking at my posts, but I can enjoy almost every sort of humour - no matter how objectionable. I have an impressive portfolio of holocaust jokes, for example, but I only share them with friends who share my refined tastes and who can appreciate a joke for what it is. I imagine that a joke at the expense of women or minorities might be acceptable on the Org depending on the context or the delivery (probably not, most of the time), while one at the expense of thousands (or millions) of murdered people is not. And yours wasn't even funny.

As for Louis' post, the only way that could have been more obviously in jest was to add "disclaimer: this is a joke" at the end. I can respect the opinions of say, Andres or Crazed Rabbit, when they say that it's still inappropriate. What bothers me is when it's coming from members who routinely excrete foul language, as a constant stream with no coherence or solid substance.

[Drunk Clown]

As for Louis' post, the only way that could have been more obviously in jest was to add "disclaimer: this is a joke" at the end. I can respect the opinions of say, Andres or Crazed Rabbit, when they say that it's still inappropriate. What bothers me is when it's coming from members who routinely excrete foul language, as a constant stream with no coherence or solid substance.

If you're talking about me you misunderstood me. I'm not offended by the use of the word fag. I'm offended that when I post bad words I get censored because this forum is PG 13 and when someone else does, who has a higher rank, it does not get censored.

[Kralizec]

I don't think that the post we're talking about should have been censored, regardless of who wrote it. The point is that it was an elaborate, obvious joke (Louis even made fun of himself) as opposed to "OMG lol fag" (note: I'm not suggesting that this is you) I can understand why people think the word should be banned regardless of how it's used, but it's clear to me the two are different.

It's worthy to note that moderation on this board, or probably anywhere, isn't always perfectly consistent, and not necessarily because of bias. Without telling a long story, I once got a warning for doing something. A couple of weeks later another mod was explaining moderating policy in an unrelated thread, and implied that what I did would have been permissable. I didn't publicly complain about it, but I did ask for clarification, and the answer was basically that all moderation is done on a case-by-case basis.