In my own personal EC-themed Pit thread, he confirmed that he had been asked to stop bringing up bondage so much for a ‘few’ months. He also seemed to think that period had come to an end.
I saw and posted in the same thread and saw the slippage but I thought maybe it was a gray area as he started the thread. He wasn’t screwing around with someone else’s.
I don’t object to the Suspension, I just wish that Tuba had clarified a little more to head of this inevitable Pit Thread.
I personally didn’t find them upsetting. They’re just the most recent posts I could find by him that could have been the straw that broke the camels back, or whatever reason the mods chose to suspend him.
I suspect the mods were looking for a chance to take some action against him, saw him post those and decided that was “enough”. They seem to be a pretty poor reason by themselves, though.
Good God–I thought those were hysterical! I particularly like the sexarian violence pun.
Lord, someday I think I’ll be reading about my suspension. I’m not knocking mods–their jobs are not easy by any means–but I just don’t get it. So, I’ll stop trying. On to Cafe Society!
Just in case you’re not trying to whoosh us, I am (and I’m pretty sure E-Sabbath was) referring to this more recent thread of EC’s, containing the following gems:
Several posters in the thread noted that EC was using it as an excuse to talk about Deathstalker and while I was being facetious earlier and not every post of his was about bondage, I’d say its pretty clear exactly what he wanted to talk about.
Yadda yadda free speech, yadda yadda not hurting anybody, yadda yadda object to suspension.
I can’t see any reason for the suspension other than bending over backwards to the prudish offenderati. So what if he does consistently steer threads, now and then, towards a topic of choice? It’s an amusing quirk.
I actually found EC’s post about Deathstalker illuminating. I don’t know whether I agree with it - I haven’t actually seen the film - but I’ve seen the odd Sword & Sorcery film and while his POV doesn’t quite fit, I retain an open mind. However, it should be remembered that there are minors who read the SDMB, and (for example) do you really want a juvenile reading a film thread and suddenly coming across something like that? IIRC the minimum age for the SDMB is 13 - far too young to understand. And he kept doing it.
I think the “Deathstalker” thread pretty clearly illuminates the problem with Evil Captor. A common criticism of people who object to prurient (or obsessive) content on these message boards is “If you don’t like it, don’t read it”. Which works, if the thread topic is reasonably representative of the contents. But if someone stealths their favorite obsession onto the message board by starting a seemingly innocuous and even promising thread, and then immediately hijacking their own thread, it’s hard to avoid it.
I’d guess it was this misuse of the mechanics of the messageboard, rather than the underlying skeeviness of his hobby that caused the banning.
Have you seen some of the shit that gets posted on these Boards? If we’re going to start cautioning or suspending people for posting content that some people might consider inappropriate for teenagers, we might as well shut down the Dope altogether.
I don’t agree with the suspension, but even if i did it wouldn’t be for the lame-ass reason you’ve posted here.
