FREEEE Phatscotty!!

[nietzsche]

What did he do?

[rdsrds2120]

Yes, his ban was just batman.

BMO

[nietzsche]

Yes, his ban was just batman.

BMO

YOU ARE NOT BMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[greenoaks]

how can we vote if you keep us in the dark about the ban

[BigBallinStalin]

Yeah, give us details. We deserve the right to know the latest drama in our cyber village.

[DoomYoshi]

Another sad day.

I don't understand banning of users who are contributing to our internet community.

This website has two policies, each of which contradicts the other.

One: you have to give a bowl of sugar to your neighbours. You are not allowed to say certain naughty words, or to hold extreme positions.

Two: you are not allowed to post personal information of other users. We live in a semi-anonymous state.

Some people have purposely exposed their own identities, and look at how much milder they are. Jones doesn't say anything offensive (except to viceroy, who deserves it). Remember when nobody knew who Emmdizzle was? The forums were seething with hatred of him. Then he revealed who he was in RL and he calmed down. Now this may just be correlative, but I think it's pretty accepted that in general, greater anonymity is what caused what people call the "negative aspects" of the internet.

Now, I like the so-called "negative" aspects of the internet. I remember as a child, in 1998, when we got the web, and I couldn't wait to be diddled, to join a neo-nazi party (my particular favourite was the french foreign legion, but apparently they don't accept minors), to virtually gangbang and maliciously bully somebody until the point where they commited suicide, to illegally download the music of a starving musician, and send viruses and other forms of goodwill around the world.

However, I propose that instead of banning users, simply allow people to post others user information, or stop this bullshit and bring back flamewars. Recently, L'il Wayne got in media trouble for making some homophobic slurs. He's a fucking rapper, and hip hop was the last vestige of popular culture where you were allowed to be a racist, sexist, homophobe. Now that hip hop is dead, we need that more than ever. Or we don't. Whatever the community decides; we should go one direction or the other.

We are like a push me-pull me.

The wild west of the internet is lost, we need to either fight to keep it or leave it behind, not both like we are currently doing.

Phatscotty, I think you are a tool, but my heart goes out to you.

[Symmetry]

PhatScotty got another ban? Where will I get my updates from Glenn Beck?

[bedub1]

<Removed>

[Neoteny]

Yeah, I'm sort of curious what it was that actually went over the line, if it wasn't all the other awful stuff he posted.

[Symmetry]

Yeah, I'm sort of curious what it was that actually went over the line, if it wasn't all the other awful stuff he posted.

It's not his first time, but I'm also curious about his latest ban.

[jonesthecurl]

A free Phatscotty would be overpriced.

[comic boy]

One hopes that he manages to break free from his stupidity .

[pimpdave]

Can I really still be Batman if the Joker is locked up in Arkham though?

FREE PHATSCOTTY!

The one the mods need to ban and retro ban (so he's owed about 10 months 1 week and 1 day) for all of his previous actions is Night Strike. They keep hitting other people with the ban stick when all they're doing or ever have done, is follow Night Strike's example.


And until the mods take action and finally treat Night Strike the same way they treat us, we should all keep posting that same garbage.

[Lootifer]

I wasnt me. We've been getting on (relatively speaking) recently.

[Funkyterrance]

Can I really still be Batman if the Joker is locked up in Arkham though?

FREE PHATSCOTTY!

The one the mods need to ban and retro ban (so he's owed about 10 months 1 week and 1 day) for all of his previous actions is Night Strike. They keep hitting other people with the ban stick when all they're doing or ever have done, is follow Night Strike's example.


And until the mods take action and finally treat Night Strike the same way they treat us, we should all keep posting that same garbage.

Wait, you mean Night Strike should not be rewarded for being more cunning? That's not how we do business here, sir.

[Serbia]

Another sad day.

I don't understand banning of users who are contributing to our internet community.

This website has two policies, each of which contradicts the other.

One: you have to give a bowl of sugar to your neighbours. You are not allowed to say certain naughty words, or to hold extreme positions.

Two: you are not allowed to post personal information of other users. We live in a semi-anonymous state.

Some people have purposely exposed their own identities, and look at how much milder they are. Jones doesn't say anything offensive (except to viceroy, who deserves it). Remember when nobody knew who Emmdizzle was? The forums were seething with hatred of him. Then he revealed who he was in RL and he calmed down. Now this may just be correlative, but I think it's pretty accepted that in general, greater anonymity is what caused what people call the "negative aspects" of the internet.

Now, I like the so-called "negative" aspects of the internet. I remember as a child, in 1998, when we got the web, and I couldn't wait to be diddled, to join a neo-nazi party (my particular favourite was the french foreign legion, but apparently they don't accept minors), to virtually gangbang and maliciously bully somebody until the point where they commited suicide, to illegally download the music of a starving musician, and send viruses and other forms of goodwill around the world.

However, I propose that instead of banning users, simply allow people to post others user information, or stop this bullshit and bring back flamewars. Recently, L'il Wayne got in media trouble for making some homophobic slurs. He's a fucking rapper, and hip hop was the last vestige of popular culture where you were allowed to be a racist, sexist, homophobe. Now that hip hop is dead, we need that more than ever. Or we don't. Whatever the community decides; we should go one direction or the other.

We are like a push me-pull me.

The wild west of the internet is lost, we need to either fight to keep it or leave it behind, not both like we are currently doing.

Phatscotty, I think you are a tool, but my heart goes out to you.

I have no idea what the f*ck you're on about most of the time. This though just makes me:

[Dukasaur]

Another sad day.

I don't understand banning of users who are contributing to our internet community.

This website has two policies, each of which contradicts the other.

One: you have to give a bowl of sugar to your neighbours. You are not allowed to say certain naughty words, or to hold extreme positions.

Two: you are not allowed to post personal information of other users. We live in a semi-anonymous state.

Some people have purposely exposed their own identities, and look at how much milder they are. Jones doesn't say anything offensive (except to viceroy, who deserves it). Remember when nobody knew who Emmdizzle was? The forums were seething with hatred of him. Then he revealed who he was in RL and he calmed down. Now this may just be correlative, but I think it's pretty accepted that in general, greater anonymity is what caused what people call the "negative aspects" of the internet.

Now, I like the so-called "negative" aspects of the internet. I remember as a child, in 1998, when we got the web, and I couldn't wait to be diddled, to join a neo-nazi party (my particular favourite was the french foreign legion, but apparently they don't accept minors), to virtually gangbang and maliciously bully somebody until the point where they commited suicide, to illegally download the music of a starving musician, and send viruses and other forms of goodwill around the world.

However, I propose that instead of banning users, simply allow people to post others user information, or stop this bullshit and bring back flamewars. Recently, L'il Wayne got in media trouble for making some homophobic slurs. He's a fucking rapper, and hip hop was the last vestige of popular culture where you were allowed to be a racist, sexist, homophobe. Now that hip hop is dead, we need that more than ever. Or we don't. Whatever the community decides; we should go one direction or the other.

We are like a push me-pull me.

The wild west of the internet is lost, we need to either fight to keep it or leave it behind, not both like we are currently doing.

Phatscotty, I think you are a tool, but my heart goes out to you.

I have no idea what the f*ck you're on about most of the time. This though just makes me:

It's not that complicated. Allow me to translate:

There are two Internets.

One is the anonymous Internet of the 1990's: Everyone hides behind a "handle" or pseudonym; real names are rarely asked and never given even if asked, people flame each other with abandon and wild excess, participate in anything and everything from trading bizarro pornography to trading recipes for homemade explosives and stolen credit card numbers.

The other is the real-name Internet. Interestingly, it both pre-dates and post-dates the wild Internet: pre-dates it because the 1980's USENET required real names, and post-dates it because Facebook and similar 2000's sites demand them. On the real-name Internet flaming is subdued, pornography and bomb-making tips are rare. Forced to use their real identities, people become more civilized.

What Doomyoshi was saying is that CC is living a schizoid existence. On the one hand it wants the civilized behaviour of the real-name Internet, but on the other hand it want the coolness of the pseudonymic Internet. What he's saying, and incidentally I agree, is that you can't have it both ways. Choose one or the other, or you will forever be mired in trying to police behaviour without the natural limitation imposed by real identities.

[BigBallinStalin]

If I owned/managed CC, I would prefer the current system rather than a system which allows users to expose personal details of unwilling parties because the latter system could lead to repercussions between users in the 'real' world, and this in turn could lead to unwanted lawsuits against CC.

Besides, why grant mods an additional opportunity to abuse their position--since they have access to everyone's IP addresses?

[nietzsche]

rds, what did he do?

we will know eventually.

so why don't you tell us?

[Symmetry]

rds, what did he do?

we will know eventually.

so why don't you tell us?

I'm guessing that it involved someone else, and the mods have judged it yet another step on PS's ban scale.

[chang50]

I hope he returns soon,for me he is an unfailing quick guide to what is correct or not,invariably he is on the wrong side of any debate.

[_sabotage_]

Cc is pathetic.

[AndyDufresne]

Cc is pathetic.

CC is copacetic.

Who has the next rhyme?


--Andy

[BigBallinStalin]

Cc is pathetic.

CC is copacetic.

Who has the next rhyme?


--Andy

There shall be no rhymes on my time.

[AndyDufresne]

I see what you did, BBS. But, I digress.


--Andy