:dubious: Well and good, but can you explain why the one GD thread this user started has vanished? Not just locked, that I could understand. But when I search for “threads started by this user” I find nothing. Zip. Nada. The thread has been disappeared. Is this Board policy? :mad:
Not the first time this has happened, either.
I believe they do it when either the username of the poster who started it or the OP itself is likely to attract an unwelcome element or get the Reader in trouble. They used to do it for Strfr*nt posters as well as posts that implied legal action against the Reader or the boards.
It’s been my experience that if a poster is clearly a troll of some sort and they start a thread for the purposes of trolling, the poster and the thread disappear; sort of removes the “Look At Me” attention that trolls feed off of, and keeps the board clear of intentionally hateful or horrible content.
The thread was moved, as noted, for the staff to consider while we asked the poster to change his username. Within just a few hours the poster stormed off, hurling accusations of “gay bashing” at the SDMB, so the thread was not restored. The removal was a precautionary one in case it had been a troll. You are welcome to open a thread on the same topic. If you would prefer that the original be restored, let me know and I will present that to the staff for reconsideration. (Restoring troll threads had not been our policy, but in the last couple of months we have amended that policy and will occasionally restore some threads initiated by trolls if the Teeming Millions request it.)
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What was the subject of the thread? I bet it was “interesting” to say the least (major euphemism). I missed it. Damn and I thought Bluebirdxx had just grabbed the record for fast banning. I was watching the wrong “contender”.
I went to the NAMBLA site to see if there was something really odious on the front page. It’s not objectionable in any obvious way… although one presumes it might be work un-safe if one has really nosey and gossippy coworkers (“guess who’s a pedophile”). Or did the link actually go somewhere else?
Anyway, good riddance to anyone called NAMBLA, sock or otherwise.
cricetus, on this we agree totally.
All we need now is someone to register as Usama Bin NAMBLA and we can Pit, ban, and delete him all at the same time.
Regards,
Shodan
The thread topic was in the form of a question. Apparently, various GLBT groups (or a GLBT umbrella organization–I don’t recall, exactly) had chosen to exclude NAMBLA and the question was whether that was appropriate. Certainly it is a topic that could have provided some thought-provoking discussion. It is also a topic that would attract massive amounts of condemnation from the Teeming Millions, much of which would be expressed irrationally–particularly with an Original Poster named NAMbLA.
Since the poster is no longer here, it seemed pointless to me to offer him up as a target for more opprobrium by re-posting his thread.
For that matter, since he is no longer here, and was polite and articulate while he was here, I see no reason to flame him further in this thread. If someone wishes to open a general flame of NAMBLA, the organization, the BBQ Pit has the same “New Topic” button as the rest of the Fora.
I think it should stay buried then. It would have turned into a real feeding frenzy in about 5 seconds. With a name like that, and the nature of his OP as you describe it, he was cheerfully chumming the waters with his own blood.
“That’s Namibia, jackass.” – Drew Feinberg, The Amazing Race, Season One.
(…sorry…couldn’t resist…)
“Gay bashing”? Here? Yeah, this place is a real hotbed of kneejerk intolerance.
Help! I’m being oppressed! See the injustice inherent in the system! :rolleyes:
I read that thread Friday afternoon, just before I left for home. It looked to be about equal parts trolling and considered debate, which is a darned good trick. I didn’t report it because he did have a good question, and the list of things you can report as undesirable don’t include “good questions I don’t have the answer to but which might upset some people.”
However, as stated by our Mods, even if the poster had been serious and eloquent, the thread couldn’t go anywhere good.
I am so fucking tired of this stupid strawman! :mad:
You can’t contract leprosy from armadillos, unless you eat them undercooked, as I said in Do Armadillos Bark? 
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I went to the NAMBLA site to see if there was something really odious on the front page. It’s not objectionable in any obvious way… although one presumes it might be work un-safe if one has really nosey and gossippy coworkers (“guess who’s a pedophile”). Or did the link actually go somewhere else?
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Places I have worked have search filters set up on their internet connection that flag sites involving porn, pedophilia, racism, bomb making…all sorts of things.
If your computer gets logged going to one of those sites, then you might expect at least a phone call from security asking what the hell you were doing. Saying you were reading the SDMB on the clock might clear your good name, but not neccesarily endear you to the powers that be.
Wrong link, I think: anyway, what if you went down on one?
You’re a poet, and you don’t even know it, dagblast it!
I donna’ know!
Would it require a can opener?
So, my husband, the seventh-grade science teacher, was teaching a unit on head injuries. He had the students on the computers researching the subject. One rather naive young lad typed in www.head.com. BAM! Red screen of doom. Forbidden content! Danger Will Robinson!
The poor kid was so upset! He thought he’d get in big ol’ trouble for trying to go to a “forbidden” site, even though it was quite accidental. He kept apologizing, and my husband had to reassure him repeatedly–and try to finesse his way around the question of why exactly a site called head.com tripped the filters.
The funniest part–Well, go to www.head.com yourself. I assure you, it’s quite work-safe. Here’s what it is:The home page of Head sporting goods. You know–they make tennis rackets and stuff.