The censorship thread

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Cal88
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Who is that lady that Sideboob Gina is railing on here?
PAC-10-BEAR
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Cal88 said:

Who is that lady that Sideboob Gina is railing on here?

Who Sideboob Gina?
sycasey
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Cal88
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chazzed
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Censorship seems to be infecting this forum too.
Aunburdened
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chazzed said:

Censorship seems to be infecting this forum too.

I think you should boycott in protest
Big C
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Aunburdened said:

chazzed said:

Censorship seems to be infecting this forum too.

I think you should boycott in protest

LOL

Curious, though, why whole threads need to be deleted, especially ones that seemed "harmless" (except for questioning authority). I'm not questioning the right to do it but questioning the wisdom of doing it. Comes across as insecure.
SBGold
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It's a crazy result and extremely unfair what has happened to Dajo and Wags

Choose Kindness
BearlySane88
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SBGold said:

It's a crazy result and extremely unfair what has happened to Dajo and Wags

Choose Kindness


Get Kimmel on it
Muckieeye
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Who needs him when we have you and 003 to tell everyone how to behave and to report the bad boys and girls to the thought police -er- mods?
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SBGold
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That's unfortunately what has been de facto put in place. It's not good

Choose Kindness
BearlySane88
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Muckieeye said:

Who needs him when we have you and 003 to tell everyone how to behave and to report the bad boys and girls to the thought police -er- mods?


Lololol I hardly ever flag anything but good try
BearlySane88
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SBGold said:

That's unfortunately what has been de facto put in place. It's not good

Choose Kindness

This is hilarious since almost all posts talking about flagging anyone come from you. "Flagged for…."
Aunburdened
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tequila4kapp
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SBGold said:

It's a crazy result and extremely unfair what has happened to Dajo and Wags

Choose Kindness

Do you recall how you posted maybe 100 times during a prior election cycle with direct links to Democratic fundraisers? That was perhaps the single most egregious violation of board rules we've had in the past 4-5 years. Do you remember how you were given a warning instead of being banned, and you responded to the warning by not doing it anymore? You would be gone for life at virtually any other board. Perhaps you'd like to reconsider this ongoing crusade against supposed moderation bias when you are the greatest beneficiary of the lack of political bias in board history.
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tequila4kapp said:

SBGold said:

It's a crazy result and extremely unfair what has happened to Dajo and Wags

Choose Kindness

Do you recall how you posted maybe 100 times during a prior election cycle with direct links to Democratic fundraisers? That was perhaps the single most egregious violation of board rules we've had in the past 4-5 years. Do you remember how you were given a warning instead of being banned, and you responded to the warning by not doing it anymore? You would be gone for life at virtually any other board. Perhaps you'd like to reconsider this ongoing crusade against supposed moderation bias when you are the greatest beneficiary of the lack of political bias in board history.



SBGold
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So I have read and re-read the User Agreement for the site and note the following in relation to the posts where I had ActBlue links as basically a closing signature closing.

" You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this forum to post any material which is knowingly:
[ol]
  • False and/or defamatory
  • Inaccurate
  • Abusive
  • Vulgar
  • Hateful
  • Harassing
  • Obscene
  • Profane
  • Sexually oriented
  • Threatening
  • Invasive of a person's privacy
  • Thread Hijacking (knowingly redirecting the subject of a thread)
  • Post padding (posting for the sole purpose of increasing post count)
  • Trolling (posting to purposefully antagonize other posters)
  • An attempt to get around the profanity filter
  • Removal of moderator/staff edits from post
  • Otherwise in violation of any law"
  • [/ol]

    I guess I did not then and do not see how those postings with that tagline violate any of the 17 noted. I have seen solicitations for funds on multiple occasions on this site. I would not have been offended in the if someone posted a solicitation link for the GOP tbh.

    FYI, the post padding sure if violated a lot on the site.

    VOTE BLUE and VOTE GAVIN
    oski003
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    SBGold said:

    So I have read and re-read the User Agreement for the site and note the following in relation to the posts where I had ActBlue links as basically a closing signature closing.

    " You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this forum to post any material which is knowingly:
    [ol]
  • False and/or defamatory
  • Inaccurate
  • Abusive
  • Vulgar
  • Hateful
  • Harassing
  • Obscene
  • Profane
  • Sexually oriented
  • Threatening
  • Invasive of a person's privacy
  • Thread Hijacking (knowingly redirecting the subject of a thread)
  • Post padding (posting for the sole purpose of increasing post count)
  • Trolling (posting to purposefully antagonize other posters)
  • An attempt to get around the profanity filter
  • Removal of moderator/staff edits from post
  • Otherwise in violation of any law"
  • [/ol]

    I guess I did not then and do not see how those postings with that tagline violate any of the 17 noted. I have seen solicitations for funds on multiple occasions on this site. I would not have been offended in the if someone posted a solicitation link for the GOP tbh.

    FYI, the post padding sure if violated a lot on the site.

    VOTE BLUE and VOTE GAVIN



    You or the character you play just needed to read a little farther. If you haven't already done and are not feigning ignorance, here is the section you and the ignorant folks who starred your post apparently did not read...

    "Advertisements
    Please note that advertisements (including promotion of other sites on the Internet), chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations will not be tolerated on this forum. This includes forum postings, links, signature lines and private messages. The only posters who are permitted to function in this way have been pre-approved by the administrators at Bear Insider as paying advertisers.

    If a service is requested by a poster on the forums it is permissible to give contact information in response to that specific request.

    If you are interested in advertising on Bear Insider please contact us."
    Aunburdened
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    oski003 said:

    SBGold said:

    So I have read and re-read the User Agreement for the site and note the following in relation to the posts where I had ActBlue links as basically a closing signature closing.

    " You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this forum to post any material which is knowingly:
    [ol]
  • False and/or defamatory
  • Inaccurate
  • Abusive
  • Vulgar
  • Hateful
  • Harassing
  • Obscene
  • Profane
  • Sexually oriented
  • Threatening
  • Invasive of a person's privacy
  • Thread Hijacking (knowingly redirecting the subject of a thread)
  • Post padding (posting for the sole purpose of increasing post count)
  • Trolling (posting to purposefully antagonize other posters)
  • An attempt to get around the profanity filter
  • Removal of moderator/staff edits from post
  • Otherwise in violation of any law"
  • [/ol]

    I guess I did not then and do not see how those postings with that tagline violate any of the 17 noted. I have seen solicitations for funds on multiple occasions on this site. I would not have been offended in the if someone posted a solicitation link for the GOP tbh.

    FYI, the post padding sure if violated a lot on the site.

    VOTE BLUE and VOTE GAVIN



    You or the character you play just needed to read a little farther. If you haven't already done and are not feigning ignorance, here is the section you and the ignorant folks who starred your post apparently did not read...

    "Advertisements
    Please note that advertisements (including promotion of other sites on the Internet), chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations will not be tolerated on this forum. This includes forum postings, links, signature lines and private messages. The only posters who are permitted to function in this way have been pre-approved by the administrators at Bear Insider as paying advertisers.

    If a service is requested by a poster on the forums it is permissible to give contact information in response to that specific request.

    If you are interested in advertising on Bear Insider please contact us."

    You'd think a "magistrate" would know how to read to the end of a legal agreement.

    Eastern Oregon Bear
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    SBGold said:

    So I have read and re-read the User Agreement for the site and note the following in relation to the posts where I had ActBlue links as basically a closing signature closing.

    " You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this forum to post any material which is knowingly:
    [ol]
  • False and/or defamatory
  • Inaccurate
  • Abusive
  • Vulgar
  • Hateful
  • Harassing
  • Obscene
  • Profane
  • Sexually oriented
  • Threatening
  • Invasive of a person's privacy
  • Thread Hijacking (knowingly redirecting the subject of a thread)
  • Post padding (posting for the sole purpose of increasing post count)
  • Trolling (posting to purposefully antagonize other posters)
  • An attempt to get around the profanity filter
  • Removal of moderator/staff edits from post
  • Otherwise in violation of any law"
  • [/ol]

    I guess I did not then and do not see how those postings with that tagline violate any of the 17 noted. I have seen solicitations for funds on multiple occasions on this site. I would not have been offended in the if someone posted a solicitation link for the GOP tbh.

    FYI, the post padding sure if violated a lot on the site.

    VOTE BLUE and VOTE GAVIN


    I'm not defending your political solicitations, but I'll point out that trolling (as defined above) happens multiple times every day and no one ever gets punished for it. Actually, infractions of most of the top 8 rules happen fairly often with infrequent regulation at best. Then there's movielover's retweeting of hundreds of racist dog whistles which is apparently deemed acceptable.
    SBGold
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    . And there have been other solicitations that have been posted that have been allowed unabated as well.

    My transgressions -are much less than others as well IMO

    Choose Kindness
    Aunburdened
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    SBGold said:

    . And there have been other solicitations that have been posted that have been allowed unabated as well.

    My transgressions -are much less than others as well IMO

    Choose Kindness

    Well, at least now you're admitting that you were lying when you said you hadn't violated the ToS
    SBGold
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    Aunburdened said:

    SBGold said:

    . And there have been other solicitations that have been posted that have been allowed unabated as well.

    My transgressions -are much less than others as well IMO

    Choose Kindness

    Well, at least now you're admitting that you were lying when you said you hadn't violated the ToS

    oh no you didn't, this is really rich

    I still question whether I did or not when it was basically part of a signature line.

    Here are some of the others, please admit to what you have violated yourself before casting any judgments:

  • False and/or defamatory
  • Inaccurate
  • Abusive
  • Vulgar
  • Hateful
  • Harassing
  • Obscene
  • Profane
  • Sexually oriented
  • Threatening
  • Invasive of a person's privacy
  • Thread Hijacking (knowingly redirecting the subject of a thread)
  • Post padding (posting for the sole purpose of increasing post count)
  • Trolling (posting to purposefully antagonize other posters)
  • IMO, you and your brethren can mark several of those transgressions multiple times.
  • Choose Kindness
  • SBGold
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    Oh I can and I do not know for sure if it is clear that I actually did.

    But as to magistrates they actually don't really deal with contracts and legal provisions like a commercial contracts counsel, so you are a bit wrong with your response
    concordtom
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    Aunburdened said:

    chazzed said:

    Censorship seems to be infecting this forum too.

    I think you should boycott in protest


    Dear Mods:

    Aunburdened requests a boycott be executed.
    Please fulfill his wish by suspending his account for, say, 30 days.

    And mind you, for clarity, when I use the word "execute" I am not referring to things like the firing squad or guillotine - or even "86" - which have been discussed vis-a-vis Trump in violent terms. I'm talking about execution in terms of gettin' er done!


    concordtom
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    tequila4kapp said:

    SBGold said:

    It's a crazy result and extremely unfair what has happened to Dajo and Wags

    Choose Kindness

    Do you recall how you posted maybe 100 times during a prior election cycle with direct links to Democratic fundraisers? That was perhaps the single most egregious violation of board rules we've had in the past 4-5 years. Do you remember how you were given a warning instead of being banned, and you responded to the warning by not doing it anymore? You would be gone for life at virtually any other board. Perhaps you'd like to reconsider this ongoing crusade against supposed moderation bias when you are the greatest beneficiary of the lack of political bias in board history.


    Well, uh, he's kinda got you there, SB.
    Anarchistbear
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    This board is tiresome and has no purpose other than entertainment but that is diminishing with the incessant sniping. 86 it.
    concordtom
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    Big C said:

    Aunburdened said:

    chazzed said:

    Censorship seems to be infecting this forum too.

    I think you should boycott in protest

    LOL

    Curious, though, why whole threads need to be deleted, especially ones that seemed "harmless" (except for questioning authority). I'm not questioning the right to do it but questioning the wisdom of doing it. Comes across as insecure.


    Have you had this talk with your teenage daughter?
    concordtom
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    SBGold said:

    So I have read and re-read the User Agreement for the site and note the following in relation to the posts where I had ActBlue links as basically a closing signature closing.

    " You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this forum to post any material which is knowingly:
    [ol]
  • False and/or defamatory
  • Inaccurate
  • Abusive
  • Vulgar
  • Hateful
  • Harassing
  • Obscene
  • Profane
  • Sexually oriented
  • Threatening
  • Invasive of a person's privacy
  • Thread Hijacking (knowingly redirecting the subject of a thread)
  • Post padding (posting for the sole purpose of increasing post count)
  • Trolling (posting to purposefully antagonize other posters)
  • An attempt to get around the profanity filter
  • Removal of moderator/staff edits from post
  • Otherwise in violation of any law"
  • [/ol]

    I guess I did not then and do not see how those postings with that tagline violate any of the 17 noted. I have seen solicitations for funds on multiple occasions on this site. I would not have been offended in the if someone posted a solicitation link for the GOP tbh.

    FYI, the post padding sure if violated a lot on the site.

    VOTE BLUE and VOTE GAVIN




    Oooo.
    Not a bad comeback.

    It made me think - maybe I should post a Venmo account link. People can wire me one cent per insult. I'll be rich before you know it!!!


    Further, I confess, I regularly violate this term:
  • *An attempt to get around the profanity filter

  • Flocking Donald Duck!

    Also, I read these two and can think of one truly insane poster who violates both of them DAILY!!!
  • *Post padding (posting for the sole purpose of increasing post count)
  • *Trolling (posting to purposefully antagonize other posters)

  • Ooops. Am I trolling?
    concordtom
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    Anarchistbear said:

    This board is tiresome and has no purpose other than entertainment but that is diminishing with the incessant sniping. 86 it.


    This is like someone at a bar who says he needs to check in to a rehab, keeps drinking, and then tells people to just Shanghai him and dump his passed out corpse in the rehab.

    No self restraint.
    concordtom
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    SBGold said:

    Oh I can and I do not know for sure if it is clear that I actually did.

    But as to magistrates they actually don't really deal with contracts and legal provisions like a commercial contracts counsel, so you are a bit wrong with your response


    Wouldn't be the first time
    concordtom
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    SBGold said:

    Aunburdened said:

    SBGold said:

    . And there have been other solicitations that have been posted that have been allowed unabated as well.

    My transgressions -are much less than others as well IMO

    Choose Kindness

    Well, at least now you're admitting that you were lying when you said you hadn't violated the ToS

    oh no you didn't, this is really rich

    I still question whether I did or not when it was basically part of a signature line.

    Here are some of the others, please admit to what you have violated yourself before casting any judgments:

  • False and/or defamatory
  • Inaccurate
  • Abusive
  • Vulgar
  • Hateful
  • Harassing
  • Obscene
  • Profane

  • Sexually oriented


  • Threatening
  • Invasive of a person's privacy
  • Thread Hijacking (knowingly redirecting the subject of a thread)
  • Post padding (posting for the sole purpose of increasing post count)
  • Trolling (posting to purposefully antagonize other posters)
  • IMO, you and your brethren can mark several of those transgressions multiple times.
  • Choose Kindness



  • BAN SHOCKY FOREVER!!!!
    Anarchistbear
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    concordtom said:

    Anarchistbear said:

    This board is tiresome and has no purpose other than entertainment but that is diminishing with the incessant sniping. 86 it.


    This is like someone at a bar who says he needs to check in to a rehab, keeps drinking, and then tells people to just Shanghai him and dump his passed out corpse in the rehab.

    No self restraint.


    Trump is doing a good job
    Aunburdened
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    SBGold said:

    Aunburdened said:

    SBGold said:

    . And there have been other solicitations that have been posted that have been allowed unabated as well.

    My transgressions -are much less than others as well IMO

    Choose Kindness

    Well, at least now you're admitting that you were lying when you said you hadn't violated the ToS

    oh no you didn't, this is really rich

    I still question whether I did or not when it was basically part of a signature line.

    Here are some of the others, please admit to what you have violated yourself before casting any judgments:

  • False and/or defamatory
  • Inaccurate
  • Abusive
  • Vulgar
  • Hateful
  • Harassing
  • Obscene
  • Profane
  • Sexually oriented
  • Threatening
  • Invasive of a person's privacy
  • Thread Hijacking (knowingly redirecting the subject of a thread)
  • Post padding (posting for the sole purpose of increasing post count)
  • Trolling (posting to purposefully antagonize other posters)
  • IMO, you and your brethren can mark several of those transgressions multiple times.
  • Choose Kindness


  • I stopped caring about the rules when I saw how they weren't enforced for certain people and then other people got banned just for contradicting the cult and following the rules. It's your hypocrisy for pretending that you were following the rules that I was highlighting.

    I care more about observing the rules now that they are starting to be applied to the folks who got off scot free in the past.
    SBGold
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    Oh you used to not follow the rules, but sometime after not following the board rules, you now follow the board rules. And you think you are convincing with that statement, lol. That's really rich.

    This board is good for laughs at least.

    VOTE BLUE and VOTE GAVIN
     
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