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Literally the first thing that pops up is...an Arab, slang,offensive, ethnic slur. So your obvious lack of reading comprehension illustrates why your sites are allowed to be run as poorly as they are. You obviously don't have friends that practice Islam as you say, or you don't know them nearly as well as you think you do. Your neighborhood analogy is a poor one as well, as this place is more of a pre-planned gated community that one solitary person profits from despite his obvious lack of interest or oversight. Why would anyone point out anything to you when no action has been taken to correct anything when previously reported, and then they are dismissed as whiners looking to be unhappy when problems are brought up. At the end of the day, you allow blatant racism in multiple threads on a site that you make money off of, and then try to absolve yourself of any responsibility by insisting that it's the fault of lack of community policing on the forum. I find your complete and total lack of accountability for your own actions and responsibilities much more indicative of overall issues with our society today than my willingness to be offended.

Yeah, I would say Brownie is the typical example of the whiny minority.

Sorry, but this feels like bending to a small whiny minority. Like so much of our society today is always willing to do.

“It's actually quite telling... 4 or 5 people are seemingly the only ones that the lurkers remember, and are the ones keeping all of those people from posting”

Sorry, but this feels like bending to a small whiny minority. Like so much of our society today is always willing to do.

“Besides, my mind database is too full with remembering lyrics of 90's rock songs to remember anything else”

I pulled up today to on a project site to check on progress and when I cut off the truck, without even opening my door, I could hear Just like every night has its dawn Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song Every rose has its thorn blaring on a job site radio. LOL

Google camel jockey.

Google camel jockey. Also, I don't make money off of this site. You do. If you think I bear responsibility for its content, you're either being disingenuous or obtuse.

I’m not complaining against that. We’ve had that conversation before and it’s your house. However, I with the new system, it automatically changes posts. And because you can’t build an automated system that can comprehend every scenario, it can make mistakes and end up changing the intent of the message.

Pfft... I'm getting old, and I have 50 things going on at once. If it didn't happen in the last 4 or 5 hours then it I might have vague recollections of it, but that's not guaranteed.
I am sorry that I have disappointed you. But I don't see where you've reported anything, so I would argue that the fault lies with you. When you signed on you agreed to report posts that you think are inappropriate, and I truly don't see how you feel like you have the right to blame others that you failed to comply with that agreement.

In NC 16 is legal age of consent.

That sucks about your pet. However if you think that these statements are a one time occurrence, than you do an extremely poor job of moderating your site, which is, at the end of the day, entirely your responsibility. Also, if you don't think that camel jockey is a racial pejorative, than you're not a very astute person. And you have to be aware of the fact that these too consistently talk about bedding 16 year olds. If you don't want to take responsibility for a site that you own and profit from, than shut it down. But don't feed anyone this sob story of the fact that you're only human. We all are, and yet we still must face the repressions for our actions, or lack thereof, regardless of whether we experienced the trauma of a pet death or not.

“Interesting note, when you first started posting you reminded me of "Satan" on GoWilkes. He's a very good example of someone that changed over time. When he first showed up to GoWilkes he was attacking people and was almost suspended, but after a short talk he stopped attacking and just became funny. Now, he's probably one of the crowd favorites.

Ironically, I had to block both "God" and "Jesus" “

Satan was a light weight

“1. On average, across all of the sites we have an average of 1 post about every 7 seconds, 24 hours a day. This means that I rarely read things unless they're reported, so I don't always know the entire backstory.

What I see is you referring to someone as "Timmy" or whatever, and it looks like you're trying to call out their identity. And this is how it looks to lurkers, too, which makes them hesitant to get involved for fear of you doing the same to them”

I understand the volume. And that’s part of why my comments aren’t complaints about anything. Just stating my side and observations. In the case of Timmy though, I also used Gifs and spelled it out like the character to make the reference. .
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“I don't know all of the proper terms, but she was clearly bipolar, which is a mental disorder and patients do qualify for disability. So I would consider it a handicap.”

We all qualify for the ADA in some way. But with this being a forum with anonymity, how is one supposed to know the medical history of each screen name? So when someone flips out, we have no way of knowing if there is a medical reason. I have told you before that there is another poster who I’ve made a point to leave alone because there is a very obvious mental issue there.

“This is a good example, though, since we're talking about it. She attacked people and was unnecessarily rude, sure. But a few of you thought that gave you the right to convince someone that, as you said, was unstable that her husband was having an affair, going so far as to creating a username of "Denise" so you could antagonize her and act like you were the mistress?”

Again, I had no way of knowing any level of her possible issues. She was posting people’s information and had them freaked out. I forgot about creating the username. Im not going to comment any furthering it.

“I've never denied that it's censorship, so I don't understand your point. This site has always been censored. We created the rules based on user demand on GoWilkes sometime around 2006.”

I’m not complaining against that. We’ve had that conversation before and it’s your house. However, I with the new system, it automatically changes posts. And because you can’t build an automated system that can comprehend every scenario, it can make mistakes and end up changing the intent of the message. Personally, I’d rather it be flagged and not go through.

“You're right, I'm not paying attention unless someone has reported something. Can you link a few threads for examples?”

At this time, no I can’t, because I don’t hold on to stuff. And to be honest, I think you’ve deleted most of them, which surprises me of your not remembering more.

Meh. I reported the term "camel jockey" as well as the rest of the spiel on Islam as racist. You turned it into a new thread.

And you're right, I felt like it could stem to an interesting discussion on race and xenophobia.
I have no idea what thread you're talking about with this one...
Meh. There's a fine line between trying to make sure no one's feelings are hurt and over-moderating. It's always been my belief that the only way to counter racism is by discussing it openly, so as long as a discussion is civil then I believe it has great merit.

*off of a site

Cool. So nothing on the racism and ethnic slurs? Because owning and profiting a site that allows this sort of prejudice is the same thing as condoning it.

Generic? We’ve had our disagreements, but I’ve never been so insulted as to be called generic. There was never anything generic with anything I have done.

You will lose the war.

So Aficianados you and Jack continue to show how despicable you can be.

Meh. I reported the term "camel jockey" as well as the rest of the spiel on Islam as racist. You turned it into a new thread. You let the obvious racism of eat bananas on the happy kwanza thread fly as well. Don't pretend like you care now. You're sadder than these other two, because you let this hate speech and racism continue to fly on a site that bears your name, Jason.

Generic? We’ve had our disagreements, but I’ve never been so insulted as to be called generic. There was never anything generic with anything I have done. Your lapdog Umpire is generic.

I forgot about Silver Bush. That was a good one. But she wasn’t a commissioner. As for Clod, he posted his own info. And I was not calling him by name. I called him Timmy. As in Timmy from South Park. Proud Native was working her *** off trying to find my real identity. I was accused by her of being an idividual that was arrested for child p**n.

As for the Denise incident, that person regularly flipped out on people and started the attacks. She may have been unstable, but let’s be careful with the mentally handicapped label. She was able to drive because she once freaked a poster out by showing up at the posters home with a bottle of liquor, after she had regularly attacked the poster publicly.

So no, my opinion of the Kenny Rogers wanna be is not hypocritical.

As for the “general filters” as you called them, well, first this really is censorship because it’s blocking generic words that are used in common conversation. And second, the filter isn’t general, because I found at least one example of someone else using the word I tried to use previously in this thread.

And as for the thread you linked, my count was the biggest complaint was the political posts. But whatever.

If you don’t remember how many times though people have tried to post my identity, then I kind of have to think you aren’t pay attention. I think the regulars will confirm it happens fairly regularly.

I didn't see anything vulgar in that post either Jason I will assume it was just another butt hurt snowflake.