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[ultrafilter]

*Originally posted by xanakis *
**However posts which merely put forward new ideas for consideration should not be deleted, they should be encouraged. All the better if those posts do so in an unconventional or humorous way. **

What you did was not humorous. It was unconventional in the same way that drooling on yourself for hours on end is unconventional. And no one seems to think that it had any worthwhile new ideas.

[Jack_Batty]

*Originally posted by xanakis *
**
I agree that certain posts should be deleted for example those that contain personal insults (which incidentally would include a number of those posts in this very thread).

However posts which merely put forward new ideas for consideration should not be deleted, they should be encouraged. All the better if those posts do so in an unconventional or humorous way. **

And you be sure to let us know when you’ve got your own message board up and running, Bunky. Then maybe someone will care about your “post policies”.

[Una_Persson]

*Originally posted by xanakis *
That post may have lead to an interesting discussion concerning human nature but instead you have turned it into a thread concerning freedom of speech.

There is no freedom of speech here. The SDMB is not a Government site or Government-supported institution.

Your “experiment” as it was has been tried before, with equally disasterous effects. Please just accept things as they are, and move on with learning and sharing.

[Scylla]

*Originally posted by xanakis *
**
That which you do not understand, you fear;
That which you fear, you label;
That which you label, you contain;
That which you contain, you control.
**

No no no. It goes like this:

That which is stupid and immature, we find annoying;
That which is annoying, earns our ire
That which earns our ire, either grows up, goes away or gets banned;

[Diane]

That which you do not understand, you fear;
That which you fear, you label;
That which you label, you contain;
That which you contain, you control.

Man who scratch ass should not bite fingernails;
Man who walk through airport turnstile sideways going to Bangkok;
Virginity like bubble, one prick - all gone;
It take many nails to build crib, only one screw to fill it.

[Mac_Guffin]

The really idiotic thing is, what he tried isn’t even new. Hell people used to try that back on the BBS’S when I was a lad.

Not new, not original, not funny. Go crawl back under your rock.

[Fenris]

*Originally posted by xanakis *
**My post may have been a slightly different and more underhand experiment than the usual ones but, hey, so we frown on originality now do we? **

Fuck off, asshole.

The second lamest excuse[sup]1[/sup] on a message board is “But it was oooonly an experiment!”

We don’t like underhanded people, we don’t like experiments, we don’t like boring putzes with bad rhetoric (“Stalinist”?!) and personally, I don’t like you. Please, drop dead.

Fenris
[sup]1[/sup] The first lamest excuse is the appeal to invisible authority: “I have dozens of e-mails that support me on this! No I won’t show them to you. Why do you ask?”

The third lamest excuse is “It was only a joke!”

[Waverly]

And you be sure to let us know when you’ve got your own message board up and running, Bunky. Then maybe someone will care about your “post policies”.

Done. You are cordially invited to Xanakis’s Forum for Porn Experiments and Social Outrage

[stolichnaya]

That which you do not understand, you fear;
That which you fear, you label;
That which you label, you contain;
That which you contain, you control.

When you can balance a tack hammer on your head, you can head off your foes with a balanced attack.

[Podkayne]

I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but I fear xanakis.

Thank you, nameless moderator, for halting his reign of terror.

[ultrafilter]

*Originally posted by stolichnaya *
**When you can balance a tack hammer on your head, you can head off your foes with a balanced attack. **

But why am I wearing these watermelons on my feet?

[Diane]

Man who walk through watermelon patch in dark have watermelon shoes.

[Fenris]

*Originally posted by xanakis *
**That which you do not understand, you fear;
That which you fear, you label;
That which you label, you contain;
That which you contain, you control.
**

Shouldn’t that be:

That which contains beans makes us fart
That which makes us fart stinks up the room
That which stinks up the room pisses off our spouses
That which pisses off our spouses is soon not served
That which is an idiot is xanakis

**

I agree that certain posts should be deleted for example those that contain personal insults (which incidentally would include a number of those posts in this very thread).
**

I encourage you to think of the personal insults as “slightly different, underhanded”, but original experiments.
**

However posts which merely put forward new ideas for consideration should not be deleted, they should be encouraged. All the better if those posts do so in an unconventional or humorous way. **

Great! Think of the insults as “new ideas for consideration” put forth in "an unconventional or humorous way.

Asshole.

[Abe_Babe]

Originally posted by xanakis
That which you do not understand, you fear;
That which you fear, you label;
That which you label, you contain;
That which you contain, you control.

That which you control, you do not understand.
Repeat as necessary.

[Mr.Miskatonic]

*Originally posted by xanakis *
**To those people blindly hurling the “troll” word around I would say this:

That which you do not understand, you fear;**

That which we see a few times, we laugh at.

That which you fear, you label;

That which we see a dozen times, we openly mock

That which you label, you contain;

That which we see a hundred times, we grumble at.

That which you contain, you control.

That which we see a thousand times, we ban.

Get it?

[Jack_Batty]

Mr. Miskatonic, Bravo!

I don’t know why, but that post just tickled the fuck out of my funnybone.

[wring]

*Originally posted by xanakis *
**That which you do not understand, you fear;
That which you fear, you label;
That which you label, you contain;
That which you contain, you control… **

“that which you do not care about…”

[Gyrate]

*Originally posted by xanakis *
**The post had nothing to with the subject of pornography beyond the title. It was more of a social experiment. Are you frightened of a word?
**

I don’t see what the problem is.

Experiment: xanakis posts someting with a porn title in GQ.

Result: Mods delete it.

See? The experiment successfully obtained a result. We have learned that when you post that sort of thing, the mods will delete it and tell you not to do it again.

Next experiment: xanakis sees what happens when someone complains about having their post deleted.

Result: Everyone else tells him (her?) to stop being such a ninny.

Et voila – another successful result. Isn’t science grand?

[Enderw24]

*Originally posted by Mr. Miskatonic *
That which you do not understand, you fear;

I do not fully understand the concept of infinity as it relates to the universe. I suppose that does give me pause.

That which you fear, you label;

“Cosmos” by Carl Sagan

That which you label, you contain;

Well, that depends. If the universe really is infinite, than there is no container. Unless the container is infinitely large. How cool would that be? We’d, like, be in a giant milk bottle or something.

That which you contain, you control.

::slowly looks around::
I…I…control the universe?
yes! Yes! YES!!!
FEAR MY WRATH YOU PUNY MORTALS AND BOW DOWN BEFORE YOUR MASTER!!!

[Enderw24]

um…heh. Sorry, Mr. Miskatonic. I was too lazy to type in the vB codes and used your post as a starting point. Didn’t mean to put your name as the OP.

I really need to study more in my omnipotence classes.