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senor boogie woogie
03-24-2004, 11:48 PM
Hola!

The www.straightdope.com message board has horrific censorship. This is a very PC board, and no avatars or pictures are allowed. They do not allow reprints of articles and talking about filesharing is off limits.

Of course, I have been banned numerous times from there, to the point where my IP address has been blocked. I would like to know how to change an IP address because I really would enjoy screwing with them, and especially two monitors. One monitors profile is "SDMB death angel". I mean this bitch truly enjoys banning people. She calls people "trolls" and "lurkers" and kicks them off.

I am a denizen of many message boards and I have never been banned from any of them, except SMDB. I do not think they have a right to do this, if they are offering a free service. The internet is a free domain in the cyber world. Unfortunately SDMB is North Korea. The moderaters also go out of their way to study IP addresses of users.

It is OK by me to argue with me, if I make a statement that you dont agree with. Call me names, I have been tagged with them all. But to ban someone for having a point of view, or to argue against the status quo is bull****, in my opinion. This is what his message board allows and theres does not.

Go look at that their sterile MF-ing board. The people call themselves "dopers" and claim they are fighting ignorance. Feh!

Senor

ĘSiR
03-25-2004, 10:03 AM
Hola Senor,

Let me guess.... you are one that also believes that "The Customer is Always Right" Well I'm from the retail world, and I can assure you that the customer is 9 out of 10 times an ignorant fool.

Did you know sites cost money and the owner of the site foots the bill? Why shouldn't he have a say? IT'S HIS SITE!

Did you know certain WebHosts will not allow advocations of violence, porn, or racial slander, and if the webmaster chooses to allow these things to happen he is in violation of the Terms of Service and can have his site shut down because of idiots who feel the need to express there right to "Free Speech"?

I am willing to bet you didn't even glance at the "Terms of Service" agreement for this site. Because they don't apply to you, right?

Basically... it's his site, and he can do whatever he wants.. if you don't like it you can leave and find another site on the internet that better suits your style. Changing IP's and harassing them shows a complete lack of any maturity what so ever.

Welcome to the boards,
don't hate me... I give everyone a hard time.

:D

Manu
03-25-2004, 01:20 PM
Well, I hate overly PC crap myself, sometimes you gotta play with it, for a multitude of reasons, like Aesir said.

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