Damage Control on divergence of humor wrt to AC Transit fight.

ddb and cutty did keep baiting the bear for no particular reason

and which was the one that got fucked up?

thanks for your thoughts Dan.

now can you unban ddb and cutty?

So glad, for several reasons, that I can't see vids at work.

are an anonymous/new poster who started a insult poll about who the most boring poster on ILX

anonymous/new Chaki

tuomas...otm

"Is what a Finnish thing?"

Failing to understand that other people can find things funny.

I'm seriously not comfortable with one person deciding what content is bannable when it isn't openly bigoted.

I've always found Dan to be reasonable and openminded when it comes to what may or may not be racist.

xp - What's "openly bigoted" and veiled is open to interpretation. HI DERE is policing his own standards and they're fairly reasonable ones.

Again: feel free to start a new thread that discusses this topic on ILE or Noize or whatever as long as it isn't made in the spirit of lolracism and doesn't lead to a continuation of this kind of clusterfuck hatfield/mccoy argument.

And we can deal with userbans that came out of this tomorrow on this thread once everybody cools off. Fair? Can we drop this for now?

so i just watched that and basically anyone who thinks that's lol, i have a very new perception of you.

I'd like to lobby to revoke both bans on these posers.
I'd like to lobby to revoke both bans on these posers.
I'd like to lobby to revoke both bans on these posers.
I'd like to lobby to revoke both bans on these posers.
I'd like to lobby to revoke both bans on these posers.
I'd like to lobby to revoke both bans on these posers.

"Is what a Finnish thing?"

Failing to understand that other people can find things funny.

No, it's personal thing. I've been beaten up enough times in my life to know there's nothing funny about violence, regardless of who started what.
Maybe you think he had it coming and feel that it was justified, but I still don't see what makes it funny. It's just sad. Every day people die or get permanently injured in fights like that.

It's sort of grimly amusing to see everyone pulling the "what, I don't see what's so racist about this?" reaction on a board where we can have a thousand-post thread about the racist overtones of a bottle opener.

Steve:
we can deal with userbans that came out of this tomorrow on this thread once everybody cools off.
we can deal with userbans that came out of this tomorrow on this thread once everybody cools off.
we can deal with userbans that came out of this tomorrow on this thread once everybody cools off.
we can deal with userbans that came out of this tomorrow on this thread once everybody cools off.
we can deal with userbans that came out of this tomorrow on this thread once everybody cools off.

forks, the last people who posted the video got banned, I don't think anyone's going to egg on HI DERE and start another thread.

Tuomas, I'm guessing you didn't start the fights where you got beaten up?

"I've been beaten up enough times in my life"

I'm not shocked by this revelation, but not sure it's true either.

Steve, your lobbying is noted and taken into account and I'm just asking that everybody take a deep breath and let's deal with this in the sunrise, please?

Milo, i'm pretty sure HI DERE doesn't care if it's the video being discussed if 1)people aren't being dicks about it and 2) people arent' being dicks about it.

forks, the last people who posted the video got banned, I don't think anyone's going to egg on HI DERE and start another thread.

The last person who posted the video was Ned Trifle, who was not banned.

who is being a dick? everyone was pretty casual about this whole thing. perhaps a bit too casual, but that's probably what started all this beef in the first place.

if you want dicks have I got a website for you

"but he also had been told that the context around posting that video was bannable" doesn't tell me he "doesn't care if the video is being discussed"

Talking in a non-dickish way about the AC Transit fight

I'd like to lobby to revoke both bans on these posers.
I'd like to lobby to revoke both bans on these posers.
I'd like to lobby to revoke both bans on these posers.
I'd like to lobby to revoke both bans on these posers.
I'd like to lobby to revoke both bans on these posers.
I'd like to lobby to revoke both bans on these posers.
I'd like to lobby to revoke both bans on these posers.
I'd like to lobby to revoke both bans on these posers.

Tuomas, I'm guessing you didn't start the fights where you got beaten up?

No. But even in the cases where I fought back, had someone filmed it and put it on the Internet for laughs, I just wouldn't have understood that. I don't think real-life violence is funny, ever. If some of you think that way, I guess we just disagree on a very fundamental level.

(bolded for people who don't have a sense of humor, hi forks!)

xp: ah, i get it now.
http://www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis/p109g/fslip.jpg

xps

I can confirm I was not banned. I didn't know it was being discussed on the noise board because I don't hang out there. I posted it (in an admittedly trite way) because I was actually interested in the way the video polarizes opinion elsewhere. I was momentarily pissed off with Dan for locking the thread but then I posted a couple of cute animals on the cute thread and I felt fine.

lol guess its a good thing i didnt post the street fighter gif in the ilg lolz thread

too soon

hey this thread isn't going to go anywhere useful soon, so here's the deal - both people will get unbanned tomorrow. locking this because all that can come out of it from here on out is people yelling about stuff, which is boring.