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We're not debating their power. We're debating whether or not it was just. So don't make veiled threats alluding to a fascist system that no one really wants to support.
It seems to be sciforums way to over-react. Well, let me try again, to over-react in conjunction with gross misinterpretation.
Faghat was prefectly friendly. He initiated a thread that recieved MANY posts. He began joking with others and made self-depricating statements. He DID contribute to the forum and by posting a thread, I can only imagine he wanted to. It may have appealed to the cruder aspects of sciforums character but it's clear that that side is celebrated fairly often. The sexual/obscene jokes are rampant.
Ghey? It's a joke. Clearly. It's nothing. It's poking fun. It's amusing.
It's not even a word. And it's totally empty of any real sentiment. I don't have any idea why one would think this was an actual character judgement. Pollux didn't understand this. Give a stupid reponse (or at least, as in this case, a misguided one) get another back, which in turns recieves another, which of course, then recieves another. Why would you then attack the final stupid sentiment on a WHOLE TRAIN of stupid sentiments? I maintain, and yes I don't KNOW, that his intentions were noble and that he genuinely thought he WAS being a part of the group by entering into friendly banter.
Are you also saying that him making a second thread to pull together the argument that was currently taking place on several threads makes him a troll? What is this post? Could it not have been done on any other? Or perhaps you wanted to make a statment, something with an "intent of provoking flameswars or heated discussion"?
I don't say this because I believe you as guilty as him but that neither of you are. It's not a sin (sin in the loosest manner, merely what isn't good character). And it's fun. The Pollux-faghat issue was so ridiculous it was funny. Did Pollux himself not make a joke on the thread dedicated to him? Is that not an abandonment of his previous thoughts and proof that he was then enjoying it? Is that not group behavior? Moreso, is that not FRIENDLY group behaviour?
No one involved was taking this as seriously as those trying to maintain some pedantic sense of honor.
He was given 0 time to prove himself nor for you to get any real idea of his personality or intentions. I won't even touch the fact that you banned him on his name. Faghat hempdaddy isn't offensive in the least and "pig fucker" is mild shock-value at the most.
If we'd quit trying to maintain some lofty intellectual society things like this wouldn't be an issue. You can be intelligent and good without always staying on topic (digression may actually be a SIGN of intelligence). You can be intelligent and good and make OFFENSIVE jokes. Quit being pretentious and learn to be friendly. Banning was a serious response to something silly.
