Tamar! WTF?

Those smilies were funny in and of themselves. Whereas :looter: was racist in and of itself and could only funny when used to troll members of this board.


The difference between :kkk: and :looter: is the difference from say Oldfellah making a slightly offcolor joke all in good fun and Apostle going around saying NIGGER, NIGGER, NIGGER.

Throw in fact that it wasn't just posting the smilie but actually making it a part of the board, and I really don't see how you could be having a hard time grasping this. Especially if 14thDoctor is correct and you have already been warned about this kind of trolling.

You are not going to change her mind.

You are taking this far more seriously than it needs to be. We have lots of smilies used for trolling, I simply didn't see anything special about that one compared to a whole lot of others that would make me not use it.

Plus, it's gone so....

Meh, I'm just arguing this while the coals burn down.


But there is quite a big difference from allowing racist statements and hanging pictures on the wall.

no longer the free speech board.

now, how does lanz feel board

Post a link using Image tags if you like. Unless more has been said I don't know about that is completely fine.

You just can't make said images part of his board.



Is it really that hard to grasp?

He can't anyway...that isn't me you know.

'You' general.

You're right Anc, he does pay the bills, but once upon a time this place was about free speech.

YOU ARE STILL AS FREE TODAY TO POST THE IMAGE AS YOU WERE YESTERDAY!!!

This has nothing whatsoever to do with free speech! Seriously, am I talking to a wall?!?!

And here you are, still talkin'.

The dead speaks!!!!!!!!!!!

Call Ripley's quick!!!!!!!!!!

:dontfeedtroll:


Is it time to lock you back in your cage, Zel?

But anc, I can not use the smilies removed by lanz.

When did Baba get an Apostle?

One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer?

Yes you can. Put it up on Flickr and you can link to them using the [ IMG] [ /IMG] tags (remove the spaces).

My Dear Lady,

Apologies for not properly punctuating.

When did you die?

I thought you were going to Applebee's?

As soon as I caught wind of you Shambler!!!!!!!!!!!!

Image fail.

On the way, my Queen!!!!!

???

Be nice Zel or you will end up on Shambler's List.

I've had it in my Photobucket smilies for a long time and have posted it on occasion.

Question: Does the fact that the smilies are not 'on the board' and instead "hotlinked to" really make that much of a difference? The end result is the same -- the images will still be here.

Let's use the White Room as an example for comparative purposes -- isn't it that pornography itself is not permitted on the board, regardless of whether those images were "part of" the board (via the gallery) or instead hotlinked to? If we were to apply the same logic to the White Room that has been applied to the smilies in this thread, then that would indicate that the White Room would technically be "ok", as long as the images aren't "part of" the board. And yet, we all know that is not what was the logic behind the end of the White Room.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but this brouhaha then over "those smilies shouldn't be part of the board!!!" seems kinda silly. The images were fine IMO, and we're still permitting them here obviously.....so the "but they shouldn't have their own smilie code" distinction is really just absurd.

Instead, it almost sounds like people just wanted a technologically encumbering resolution to something they just didn't like....

IOWs....:14thDoctor: