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Originally Posted by Baron Samedi

It's not but unless I'm mistaken the vast majority of people would agree that it's more than a bit of an overreaction. As Forbes said earlier 99.9% of people wouldn't have a problem with it - I wouldn't want to be the person who has to write the rulebook that caters for every 0.1% of people who might happen to get offended by something.

Kin dof out of context I think I was talking about an image being edited not the abuse. Yes I think the person over reacted a bit but I personally wouldn't bother coming back ontot a forum that treated me like we did in this first thread and I don't think most folk would. I've noticed more and more people come on for a few days as new members then never come back which didn't use to be the case, sure theres always a high drop out rate but it seems to be creaping up.

Originally Posted by Mwezzi

I know what you're getting at, but the sensitivity may also have come from not being exposed to this before. He didn't seem that used to much of the stuff we routinely hurl at each other at all, I know when I came to the forum I hadn't seen such a high level of casual abuse being slung about in other forums I'd previously been on but just bit my tongue until I got used to it and knew who was going to insult you regardless of who you are - some users, as we've seen, aren't willing to sit it out in this fashion and prefer just not to take it at all if they feel they're being personally attacked, whether their impression is mistaken or not. Chances are that, if he'd realised that he wasn't being singled out, he may not have responded in this fashion. I mean, he may have found it a bit more annoying as he didn't appear to have the thickest of skins, but he'd possibly also realise that people weren't ganging up and trying to hound him out either.
And if not, well, yeah. He'd die a MarkMono-induced death.

Originally Posted by Girshkin

It's pretty shit if the poor guy's been bullied into leaving, which is clearly what happened. People can say it was just a bit of banter all they like, but banter's two-sided and he clearly was offended by what was being said. He joined up and got continuously told he looked like a girl, despite explaining in his FIRST FUCKING POST that he was a guy, then got compared to Gary Glitter when he put up a picture of samurai armour he had made, one of the pishest, lamest attempts at an insult I've seen on here in a long time.

I'm getting a bit sick of some of the folk on here, I'll be honest, and there's times I hold back from posting things because I know some forumers will lambast me for it, and there's some threads I'll avoid altogether because of who's started them. The majority of folk on here are ok, and I've made some good friends and plenty of acquaintances from the place, but this element of the place is starting to get on my tits.

This is pretty much my view on things. People get shit thrown at them far to easily at times. I think it's time things were kept a bit more on topic in most threads and any people jsut trying to be wanks get nipped in the bud quickly.