[Gildwulf]

Jeez, I get home from work and bbv hates me. et tu bbv?

OK, I will try and address all your concerns one at a time:

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Look I'm not for banning any of it. This the internet for eff's sake. But to say the first two are verboten, and the last (which makes up like 80 percent of the posts here) is ok is just downright hypocritical.

My vote would be to allow it all where its clearly lighthearted, and come down hard on people who are directing it at other posters or are way over the top on the obnoxiousnous meter.

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Here is the problem with just banning whenever I feel like it or I think someone's a racist. It's subjective and tends towards favoritism. For instance, I know Dean and think he's a nice guy, we chat on AIM, talk about poker, etc. If he were to make an off-handed comment about black people in a thread, I would be more inclined to let him off and not do anything about it. If a guy with 3 posts makes a comment about jews or black people, I would probably warn him or ban him. How is this fair? This is totally subjective and puts me in an incredibly difficult damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't scenario. There is some serious racism, etc. going on, but if I ban selectively I am a hypocrite. But if I institute a fair policy across-the-board for people to know and follow, I'm also a hypocrite.

There is a very thin line in this kind of situation on who is joking and what is "irony". I have a sense of humor obviously (I thought Borat was genius) and I am willing to let things slide to a point. But if someone makes a dumb comment and some guy with 5000 posts says "lol ur such a sp*c" or "lol k*ke" it shows the guy with 1000 posts that that's ok. And that sets the whole tone for BBV.

Does that make sense to anyone?

Also, Kiwi and Dean are banned for a week.