Tastless threads against SDMB rules?

Then you haven’t been paying close enough attention because it’s happened plenty of times. Here’s one from last year, also closed by Skip.

You might want to check out the thread title again…

Then it’s a pattern of lame moderation. His chicken-shit “I think we’re done here” is really starting to piss me off. That thread was even worse, since it went on for a while and people seemed to like it. “Ooooooh, It’s got Blasphemy!” What are we fucking Puritans?

I understand almost any other form of moderation but this. It’s not like the board is overrun with this kind of posting, it’s normally kinda rare that we talk about tasteless things. But the great arbiter of “good taste” SkipMagic comes in and deigns it not worthy of our consideration.

Would anyone else find it funny if SkipMagic closed this thread down? Sorry I just had to say that!

Not to widen the pissing pool, but **Czarcasm **is even more trigger happy when it comes to threads he finds distasteful or lame. I can do a search if you want, but I’d really rather not.

FWIW I didn’t find that thread any more tasteless or offensive than about a thousand other threads that have come and gone unclosed. Okay, SkipMagic doesn’t like tasteless jokes or Holocaust pics with bling on 'em, but why exactly should his standard of taste be the one that prevails?

Lame moderating, I have to agree. Every single totally tasteless pic in there was identified as such with comments such as “I’m going to hell,” so anyone who clicked and got offended has no one but himself to blame. WTF else do you expect from a thread like that? Don’t like it, don’t read it and that goes for mods too. SkipMagic, if you know going in that you aren’t going to approve of a thread, why not leave it to another mod to oversee? Someone like Giraffe, maybe, who can handle sick humor without coming all over with a case of the vapors?

There’s also the fact that nothing IN THE THREAD ITSELF was in any way inappropriate. The tackiness lay at the other end of a link, so getting panties all up in a wad over something that ain’t even ON THIS MESSAGE BOARD ITSELF is doubly ludicrous.

Hold the line, Skip. The thread was offensive in the extreme and if any thread that’s ever been posted to this Board deserved closing, that was it. Let them start a boogers, farts and hilarious dead bodies board of their own if that’s what they want.

Just because there’s no bright lines drawn doesn’t mean there’s no way to judge when something’s over the line, bright or not.

Because he’s the one doing all the work as mod, and putting up with the crap we Dopers give him. I’d like to see some of these “anything goes” folks do all the work for once, and try to explain themselves to a lot of whiners.

I knew there would be some lame-ass teacher’s pet to come in and defend him.

While I have no problem with Skip closing the thread, I think he did it under the wrong rule.
He should have closed it under the this thread is too stupid to live rule.

Thanks…

Oh, yeah, message board moderation is such difficult and dangerous work. That’s why they’re so highly paid.

look, I appreciate the mods and what they do, BUT let’s not pretend it’s some awful chore. They do it because they want to do it, and if it gets to the point where they don’t enjoy it anymore, they stop doing it. IMO, the best moderation is that which is largely transparent. The content and its quality ought to be mostly controlled by the membership at large, not by a select few.

Just because we don’t agree with you doesn’t make us “teacher’s pets.” I don’t know him from a hole in the ground – the same exact degree of knowledge I have of you – but I happen to think he made the correct decision.

I’m OK with all the dick-and-fart jokes you want to post; believe me I have a high threshold for tastelessness. When you start using innocent victims of genocide as the butt of a juvenile sight gag, that just crosses the line from mere bad taste into abject inhumanity. I used the ‘report’ button and got your worthless thread shut down; if you don’t like it, you can suck it, you soulless piece of shit. Thanks SkipMagic.

There is nothing – nothing – that your brain could produce that is more offensive than stuff I’ve already thought of. I still think you’re an idiot for doing it, though. If I had any respect for you before, you’ve flushed it.

That whole thread was geared toward a much, much lower standard of intelligence and cultural awareness than I’ve become accustomed to on the SDMB. The message boards of the Internet are by and large of vast wasteland of drooling stupidity and willful ignorance; so if you want to see what half-wit teenagers can do in the way of pointless mockery of real suffering that they don’t understand, there are countless other sites there to serve you.

Given that, I don’t know of a specific rule that was violated. Might have been better to let the wretched thread sink into oblivion, as it would have shortly.

So you’ve already thought of it, but I posted it, and nothing in the thread merited closing it. And yet, you’ve lost all respect for me because I’ve “said” something you weren’t willing to. How bizarre is that?

“Blinging” is for people too dumb to use Photoshop, anyway.

Thought I clicked all the links, but didn’t see any holocaust blingees. (Redacted?)

Mangetout’s exploding Zeppelin made me laugh out loud. The cleverest of the lot IMHO, but not one compliment. Too bad.

Holocaust bling – grossly inappropriate. Glad the thread was gassed.

My feelings exactly. Once a thread devolves into that sort of thing, it’s time to murder a bunch of Jews it.