No it’s not. Vanilla was warned and her off-board drama thread was locked the first time, then she was banned the second time.
And that’s the first example that comes to mind. There’ve been many others.
Can you think of a counter-example where someone posted off-board drama and they were protected instead of being warned?
Threads shouldn’t be disappeared.
This entire episode is just a laugh a minute.
Opal, you’re AGAIN the center of attention. Well played, well done.
You really think she wants a captioned picture of her with a dick in her mouth going viral? I’m betting she steps away from the war machine that is the internet at this point.
Yes I do. I could forgive her if she didn’t know anything about web design … oh wait.
I do not know this opal, but it seems to not be balanced to do for one poster what was not done for others.
And I know enough of the site coding to say if it is true that the pictures were not in some very secure and passworded directory but in something even the Google can index then it is difficult to believe that someone presenting herself as a web designer did not do this in a fashion deliberately.
It is very crazy to put up sensitive personal pictures on the internet and this is a thing that is well known, it is not a thing to be surprised by. It is sad to say, but as a woman to put up such pictures on the internet without great and confirmed security…
All I can say is that I think a lot less of most of the non-moderator participators in this thread. “She was asking for it” is never a valid excuse for anything.
Classic wag the dog. Absolutely classic. And again, just so we’re clear here (for the benefit of other posters, since you are delusional and clinging to it):
There is no inter-board fight.
I can think of other examples, but I suck at user names and don’t care enough to search. There was a poster who said a whole lot of stuff about her BSMD (BMSD? I have no idea) habit–her stuff was never taken down. There was another poster who posted about how she didn’t get why the wife of her lover was so angry; she was Pitted (and rightly so), those threads were not disappeared. I’m sure there are other examples. Please don’t insult our intelligence by saying stuff like “this is unprecedented”. No, it is not. There have been worse situations. There will be future situations because of the vagaries of human nature and the seductive anonymity of the internet.
I’ve said my piece to absolutely no avail. Your choices have been made. But just like Opal can’t put that genie back in the bottle, nor can you all stick your heads in the sand and wish this thread away. I have no doubt whatsoever that it will be dragged out in the future when something like this occurs again. That I think it will be Opal who triggers it is my jaundiced opinion. The underlying principle is that it could be any poster.
Last words for me on this topic: there is no inter-board fight. None.
Oops-truly the last thing. This is not (for me) about the dick move someone made to share the pics. It’s about the inconsistency and the attention whoring/manipulation that is Opal at her finest. And it’s also about the insanity of claiming there is some kind of “fight” ongoing between here and The Board That Must Not Be Named.
But I also really think that the original dick move was Opal not providing security for those pics. Way to harm and embarrass your husband and family, Opal. You got what you wanted: attention is attention. Please get some PROFESSIONAL help.
I just don’t see how that thread had more personal content than dozens of threads started all the time. People drag their drama from families, sexual relationships, work place personal issues, you know we see it all the time. No message board was mentioned in this OP. And because someone can go digging on their own and find the dirt, doesn’t make it wrong to post a thread saying “this is what happened to me on the internet”. Forget that it is Opal for a second, and look at the content objectively. Then try to explain why in principle this was wrong, and how it goes beyond the spirit of personal content shared all the time in MPSIMS and IMHO forums.
The thread should not even had a padlock. And look at all the drama queens come running, pouring out of the woodwork to gang and attack. This board is becoming truly disgusting in its attitude and backstabbing content.
I don’t think Opal’s even posted in this thread. She’s not the one looking for drama here. This is a bunch of people poking her with a stick to see if they can get her riled up.
Exactly.
Well, I’ll always remember Doc Cathode as the guy that started that thread:
Late to the party, dead horse, blah blah blah… But I really hate bad analogies (unless I’m making them), so:
All the real world analogies being bandied about are ridiculous. Viewing ‘hidden’ pics is not like kyping someone’s wallet or ransacking their house, or anything like that.
If you want a closer, but still bad, analogy, try this:
Bill is a major recluse. He doesn’t want anyone to know what he has or what goes on in his home. One day, he leaves his garage door wide open while carrying tools out to his garden. A passerby on the sidewalk happens to glance in and sees his cherry '57 Chevy. “Nice car.”, says passerby.
“OMFG! STOP TRESPASSING ON MY LAND! I’LL KILL YOU! YOU ARE STEALING MY CAR!”, responds Bill.
That’s more like what happened here than super elite hackers. This wasn’t even script-kiddie shit. It was some guy looking through someone’s open garage door.
As someone who’s seen not only the pictures, but also how it all was laid out, I want to make an observation or two:
Why did Opal Photoshop and make thumbnails of the pictures? They were all arranged for a photo web gallery.
Her claim* that this was long ago when she and hubby was in a long distance relationship doesn’t correlate with the dates these pictures were created.
There are four our five banned posters at the other board* *who are active, and one who’s been labeled “troublemaker” by IIRC, Tuba. That is not a significant portion of the membership, though admittedly, Dio is on a posting binge right now, so that might skew the perspective.
The thread about Opal at the other board** is almost 1 500 post long. The majority of comments after the DuckyPorn surfaced are not poking her. They express sadness, especially for her son and husband. Sure there are quite a few: OMG, brain bleach needed! but very little Lookit the ugly skank ho! Hur-dur-dur!
And finally - Idle Thoughts: As you were once an active member at the other board**, with your own forum even, do really actually believe that the people over there** who are not already active here would come here to stir trouble?
*I read the OP of the MPSIMS thread and it’s been preserved elsewhere
** Cue suspenseful music
Isn’t it time, by the mods’ own logic, to disappear this thread now?
Could a mod answer please: If that MPSIMS thread was vanished for cross-board drama, was Opal officially warned for this transgression?
Yeah,
she cant even face up what she does. She ceaselessly clutters the board with intimate pics of herself, and feels “hacked” when someone checks her galleries and discovers the motherlode. But she then blames her guy for taking most of the pics…Christ, get some balls, girl.
Snort. She posts a Pit rant in MPSIMS about another board, and she isnt looking for drama!!!? That stick you speak of, is it a mote or a beam?
“I must warn Your Majesty that with each new transgression, it grows increasingly difficult for us to maintain the public appearance of impartiality…”
Where’s this “board war” you prevented through your valiant actions? I ask because the invisible OP in question is freely available in exactly those very boards that are, in your mind, full of internet warriors chomping at the bit to invade the SDMB. And yet there are none in sight. Why do you think that is?
Again, if you did it to protect Opal from her own failings, fine, say so. Noble gesture I might add – though the salient question remains: why does she get the special treatment?
No, we’re well aware of how pointless that would be. But I’m willing to close it if it goes any further off-topic. For example:
Who gives a crap? This thread has included several different topics that belong in ATMB, but none of them include OpalCat’s web design choices or her relationships. Whatever her reasons for taking the pictures, putting them on her site, or using whatever security she used or failed to use, she didn’t want them to be public and they became public. All of that was done off-board, so it didn’t belong on the SDMB. In most cases the thread would have been locked but left public. In this case the thread was removed instead because this is a very personal situation and (to my reasoning, at least) leaving the details readable on the SDMB was only going to make it worse.