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Yesterday, I was perusing a rather splendid thread named "Nudity is not necessary" at Word Forge. Basically, it's one of those stock threads where everyone posts some images of fit birds to drool over - we've all seen them, and most of us (males) have contributed.
You can see it right here for yourselves, folks.
Having seen some slightly off-topic posts in there (you know, ugly fat women), I decided to share some of mine. I hotlinked to an oil painting of Hitler, and photos of Pol Pot & Idi Amin, and to insure it didn't get too off-topic, two of Kelly Brook & one of Monica Belucci.
I logged in this afternoon, unsurprisingly to find the images (other than the fit birds) removed. GB had been amongst those to fake-complain, in his own special way of trying to OMG PUT ME IN THE HOT WATER OMG DON'T GET ME TOLD OFF ON A WEBSITE~"
Apparantly, the board's server is based in Germany (or Austria?) so any pix of Hitler / Swastikas / Nazi-related ephemara is considered unacceptable.
Fair point? I suppose so. If you have to keep the server sweet, away with the pix. But the thing that made me laugh is the comment their admin Paladin entered into my post having removed the images:
*images removed - inappropriate images for thread context may constitute trolling - Paladin*
LOL! - Posting an image of HITLER could be TROLLING folks!
This got me wondering. If you have to remove any Nazi-related content before posting, how could you talk about any stories Nazi-related in content? (Don't get me wrong - this hasn't annoyed me whatsoever, it's just amused me to the point that I'd rather discuss it here where I can hotlink to EVIL NAZI images)
So I guess, if you have a story like the Nazi Costume / Prince Harry non-event a few years ago, you'd have to fix it, right? So would it have to go something like this, to be considered as acceptable?
It would certainly be amusing to test the theory, but alas, I just don't care enough to do so!
You can see it right here for yourselves, folks.
Having seen some slightly off-topic posts in there (you know, ugly fat women), I decided to share some of mine. I hotlinked to an oil painting of Hitler, and photos of Pol Pot & Idi Amin, and to insure it didn't get too off-topic, two of Kelly Brook & one of Monica Belucci.
I logged in this afternoon, unsurprisingly to find the images (other than the fit birds) removed. GB had been amongst those to fake-complain, in his own special way of trying to OMG PUT ME IN THE HOT WATER OMG DON'T GET ME TOLD OFF ON A WEBSITE~"
Apparantly, the board's server is based in Germany (or Austria?) so any pix of Hitler / Swastikas / Nazi-related ephemara is considered unacceptable.
Fair point? I suppose so. If you have to keep the server sweet, away with the pix. But the thing that made me laugh is the comment their admin Paladin entered into my post having removed the images:
*images removed - inappropriate images for thread context may constitute trolling - Paladin*
LOL! - Posting an image of HITLER could be TROLLING folks!
This got me wondering. If you have to remove any Nazi-related content before posting, how could you talk about any stories Nazi-related in content? (Don't get me wrong - this hasn't annoyed me whatsoever, it's just amused me to the point that I'd rather discuss it here where I can hotlink to EVIL NAZI images)
So I guess, if you have a story like the Nazi Costume / Prince Harry non-event a few years ago, you'd have to fix it, right? So would it have to go something like this, to be considered as acceptable?


It would certainly be amusing to test the theory, but alas, I just don't care enough to do so!