HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com!
Inge:
Do you mean on his account at VS? It could be an unavoidable software side-effect of being on moderated status, or could be the side-taking phenomenon. I don't think either Pescado or Rentechd are that petty minded, but some younger or less well-grounded people might have started playing pranks on "the other side" as they see it.
Brynne:
Quote from: laeshanin on 2005 August 01, 11:09:23
Cartoon violence is ok (Tom & Jerry anyone?) but bringing reality into something that's essentially marketed for kids?
Even as a kid I knew that hitting someone over the head with a frying pan would do more than produce the doingoingoing! sound. ;)
Quote from: laeshanin on 2005 August 01, 11:09:23
As for the "disturbing" avatar...I've seen far worse than a gay couple snogging. (Having been round the blocks more than once - a fairly slow stroll - and (jokingly) known as a "fag-hag".) Sexuality merely is. And, provided everyone is enjoying it and there is no coercion then I fail to see what the problem is. Both of my children have gay men as role models and it hasn't done them any harm, and it has done no harm to those young people adopted by gay couples of either gender.
I'm far from being a "tree-hugging hippy", but I am also (jokingly) a "fag hag". Two good friends of mine are a gay couple, and they have adopted a son (he was 11 at the time of adoption, and is now in high-school), whom they "suspect" is also gay (and also why their home was seen as a perfect fit for the child). My son is friends with their son and didn't blink an eye when we went over to their house for dinner one evening and the son was dressed in a long velvet gown and full makeup! And my son adores the two men. Although at first I didn't know how to answer my son's "Why does so-and-so have two daddies?" question, I answered with the truth, which my son accepted and went back to his crayons. That's reality, and I've come to the conclusion that shielding my son from what some deem "socially unacceptable" would be the best recipe for creating a mind which considers such things "socially unacceptable". There are things that deserve that label, but this was not one of them, in my mind.
Wow, five red squares??? Someone got a little trigger-happy with the anti-rep button, it seems. This is getting sillier by the day...
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, unless they're hacking into the site to do it, they must have some official standing, surely? At SimFreaks, I can do certain things as a mod, like move posts, post warnings, etc. but I think only Heather could actually make those kind of changes (and maybe one or two other mods with a similar understanding of how things work).
Brynne:
Quote from: Inge on 2005 August 01, 16:20:31
Do you mean on his account at VS? It could be an unavoidable software side-effect of being on moderated status, or could be the side-taking phenomenon. I don't think either Pescado or Rentechd are that petty minded, but some younger or less well-grounded people might have started playing pranks on "the other side" as they see it.
I'm thinking that a lot of this silliness has much more to do with the new, younger posters over there than it has to do with either Rentechd or Pescado. Stirring the proverbial pot. Makes life fun, doesn't it?
veilchen:
Quote from: Inge on 2005 August 01, 15:41:22
Well that's a great speech, all of it perfectly true about this site
Thank you Inge, I was always good at making sensible points and speeches. Maybe I should try for the Diplomatic Corps, they certainly get paid better than I do :D
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Anyone thinking that links to this site have been purged from VS, here is the pointer to the MATY thread in the Site Links section at VS, where I too have a link to my site in common with several other sites. It seems fairly standard in the community to allow one link per other person's site? MATY on the other hand, has *nowhere* for other sites to post their links. One "censorship" battle point to VS, I think.
I might have mis-read this, but to me it seems the point was censorship. Which does not exist here. As for the missing links (no pun intended), that is also pretty well explained in my speech :D.
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I don't think either Pescado or Rentechd are that petty minded, but some younger or less well-grounded people might have started playing pranks on "the other side" as they see it.
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Posted by: Brynne
I'm thinking that a lot of this silliness has much more to do with the new, younger posters over there than it has to do with either Rentechd or Pescado. Stirring the proverbial pot. Makes life fun, doesn't it?
I completely agree. I'm assuming (I know, don't assume) that this is the pool our little flamer crawled out of. Things like this most certainly keep this thread alive and breathing. And let me re-state JM's view on the flamer. He does not believe that this was done with either Rennie's knowledge, much less with her blessing. The red squares also add fuel to the fire that is trying to die down. I read Rennie's sticky on the 'reputation' thing. It seems to me that she does have the means to either re-set it or turn it off. That would take the wind out of the little ones' sails, more or less (hopefully more). I'm assuming this (again with the assuming, sheesh) because she states that "Not only can users reposrt a poster for begging for rep which will ear them an immedate -1000 other sit members can give them what they want" --this is a direct quote from the sticky. It does make it seem that she can manipulate this on her admin end.
G.
Edit: And please, I'm not at all claiming that Rentech even knew (or knows) about the reputation issue. After all, she has been very busy with all her new outdoor stuff meshes. Love the Gazebo by the way.
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