[ADMIN] Meta bitching - enough.

Something Awful, has led directly to two suicides and three murders

Details, pls!!!

-- libcrypt, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

from wikipedia:
Shooting deaths

In 2005, William Freund, a mentally disturbed SA member in Aliso Viejo, California, sought advice in the gun subforum about purchasing Hevi-Shot ammunition several days before embarking on a shooting, in which he killed two people before committing suicide. Freund had stated in the thread, which was closed before the killing spree, that he intended to use the ammunition to defend his Halloween pumpkins from vandals.[21]

On September 25, 2007, forum member "West" posted a thread (only viewable with an archives account) about a double homicide in Oviedo, Florida that involved an acquaintance of his. As the thread grew, other users said they had known the victims, and the users eventually found the website of Andrew Allred, who posted on the forums as "Bomber166". The website contained significant details about the victims and the murder; Allred's account was subsequently banned, and he is being held without bail and faces two counts of homicide, attempted murder and armed burglary.[21]

I guess we got a bit of catchup to do, then.

William Freund (c. 1986 – October 29, 2005) was a nineteen-year-old male who donned a cape and paintball mask and went on a shooting rampage in the city of Aliso Viejo, California.

he Dom'd a cape

I don't know that this is a valid need for ammunition.

er, this:

he intended to use the ammunition to defend his Halloween pumpkins from vandals

Allred's account was subsequently banned

DUDE HARSH

You have to pay like $6 for those!

SA confuses me, but i do like that thread where they rip on newspaper comics

Bah, that's what Comics Curmudgeon is for.

yeah but he lacks the photoshoppery

Got me there.

hi what'd i miss here

i have a crew?!?!?!?!!

1p3'ers

Can we start a gun board?

admin is finally getting around to fixing the search engine, roxy

who made orbit and kate st claire mod when i was gone?

^fashionably late

oh hey look who's not dead

1p3ers are out of control! mixed allegiances too

and BRYCE OTM way upthread

I've been in pretty serious fucking physical agony for the past few weeks but I'm getting better

"http://www.basil-poledouris.com/images/wheelofpain.jpg"

i have a crew?!?!?!?!!

-- roxymuzak, Thursday, May 22, 2008 5:40 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

the 4 pwnsmen of the lolpocalypse

haw

i only got like 40 posts in to this thing.

can someone:

1) link me to hilights of this thread
2) summarize the main counterpoints
3) let me know how much of the opening creed still stands?

if not then ok.

heave ho is our co-pilot

still no invite you fuks

highlights: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=765&boardid=40&threadid=58899

Crut otm.

i only got like 40 posts in to this thing.

all you need to know

THIS TYPE OF SHIT CAN HAVE IRL CONSEQUENCES

Wrinklepaws on Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:47

I've been in pretty serious fucking physical agony for the past few weeks but I'm getting better

77 disappears mysteriously again...

ya gotta be logged in to see it

just figured that out. cool.

plus que ca change...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/ilx.jpg

I have no mouth and I must zing.

ok i agree with the gist of all this and have two things to add

1) 'baiting random googlers' - why should they be fair game and regulars not? one thing that irks me about message boards in general is this assumption that n00bs are teh plague whereas 99 per cent of the time the poison comes from within;

2) surely off-board abuse is actionable too, provided it is 1) directly offensive to specific ilx0rz and 2) in the public domain, why shouldn't this be a bannable offense?

Braveclub, I absolutely agree with point 1. I think the thing with point 2 is not that they shouldn't be banned, just that there's nothing they can do about stuff that's happened offsite, e.g. removing some offensive page that's been highly indexed by Google.

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/2575/manwhogk3.jpg

Aw, man.

TH, haha, some things are impolitic for the object of discussion to bring up without looking like a pedant.

Mods are really only able to take action over stuff that appears on ILX; by registering here we all agree to submit to that authority no matter how much a poster wants to thcweam and thcweam otherwise. Harking back to the time someone wanted to publish threads in a book, our learned friends of ILX, Esq. noted there were IP rights issues involved in republishing contributors' comments/submissions elsewhere in the public domain without permission. We do not waive these rights when we post to ILX. Nor do we waive protection from the spectrum of defamation outside the boards if for some bizarre reason someone decides to engage in what any reasonable person would consider off-board abuse of a private figure. Only a handful of posters here would be considered past the 'public figure' threshhold for having to put up with this (hint: they're all musicians).

So mind how you go.

"thcweam"?

Fudd for "scream", cleverly implying that the discontented are of middling intelligence because of their speech "issues".

violet-elizabeth tombott

google "violet elizabeth bott", forks. It's a ref to a spoiled, priviledged character from a series of brit children's stories. I guess it's not that well-known a meme in the st8s, maybe?

Ah! Ever so clever!

nb was not implying anything about tom beyond the sound-matchup.