<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Lynda</b></i>
Here's my 2 cents:
If I were in SD's place and had been banned once, twice, however many times it's happened; whenever I got my "privileges back" I would tread lightly for awhile so as not to get feather's ruffled up again. I would assume that my content was being watched, fair or not fair.
I'm not saying this is what SD <b>should</b> do, but it's what I would do to keep being able to post if it was important to me to continue to be a part of this community.
Again....before everyone blasts me, this is what I would do, not what SD should do.</end quote></div>
I'm just quoting Lynda out of randomness. Here is the deal:
I rarely post here (and I mean very rarely) anymore for a ton of reasons. I occasionally come to this site, usually real late at night after work, maybe twice a week, sometimes I go a week or two or several weeks without stopping by. There's reasons though. I know i'm not the most care bear type, I can be pretty abrasive, and "doesn't play well with others" If I see something from someone else screams retardation (and I don't mean the medical diagnosis). Due to that, and due to all types being on here, and this being a primarily "huggy fluffy" place, I chose (after several bannings) to not be a "regular" here anymore.
The three most important (and when i say important I mean - They who hold the power) people on here are (in no order) Bill, Jeane, and Julie. If you offend/cross/even slightly annoy any of those three people, you are censored/banned. I also personally feel Julie has mod powers, due to some of my old posts (before I was flagged as a troublemaker I guess) being removed immediately after they were posted, that were non offensive, and she was also online, but who knows.
Anyways that night I made that thread I came on, saw quite a few happy birthday threads, and thought it was kind of silly. Since I (like everyone else here) has an opinion, I thought I would share it in a silly way, and thought I said something about bill writing a lunger script to automate our B-days. I don't recall, because honestly I was a tad buzzed when I wrote it. But I am not a hateful person, but I am silly and can be mischievous. The next day I said "Hey I thought I posted something about b-days on the cf site" and forgot about it.
I don't claim to have a halo above my head, but the first time I was banned on here was due to guilt by association (I was one of three people online when said person - not me- decided to ultra spam the board with a view script). The second time after I was banned, I informed Mr. Bill I can continue to post as long as I want, even through a banning, just to show him I could. Well he didn't dig that, and banned me maybe two more times. I never did anything to warrant the bannings (well atleast to most sane people), but I did piss off someone with the perceived ability to squish me. After playing cat and mouse with Bill (he is a good IT guy btw), it got old and I just remembered that this is their PRIVATE place, and I have zero rights, regardless of me being a fellow terminal lunger/whatever.
I also fully came to grips that there is insane favoritism on here, and the person who dislikes me the most (granted she had both barrels of the shotgun coming many times due to her self righteousness), probably has mod powers, or at the least the ability to complain and even without merit, and those who do have powers react and squish me. It's silly, and juvenile, and as I said before, this place isn't for me. I will occasionally forget that and get buzzed and post something harmless, but maybe poking fun, and usually have it immediately removed. As a few others said in this thread, they saw my thread and it was harmless and non offensive.
Not like it impacts me at all, I still gotta work, get up, do aresols, make my feminine organism happy, and all those being alive things. But never for a second feel anything you say on here is protected by your perceived right to say it, either legally or ethnically. If Bill, Jeane, or Julie really don't like you/what you have to say, it/you is gone.
I have always felt, regardless of the forum, as long as "the sacred rules" aren't broken, along the lines of piracy related material, direct real life threats (something Julie has done to me a few times on here and that wasnt punished), posting obscene material (porn, graphic gore stuff, other not work safe stuff), spamming, posting real life info of others, etc, opinions and opinions concerning others should be left alone. But then again, just because those seem to be the rules practiced on nearly all other forums on the net I have belonged to, does not mean that flies here. It just sucks that one place that has one of the largest gatherings of other lungers like myself is such a sterilized overly modded place. But then again, whoever pays the bills for the bandwidth and server, they can do whatever they want.
This response will probably be sterilized also. I'm too lazy to copy and paste it, so whatever.
