A Bit of Common Sense

[Paolo]

Ok, folks,

This morning I received a very nasty and threatening email from a chat room OP on an MSN server/room. She did not say what room/server she is on. I prefer to believe it must be "crackheads anonymous" or somesuch. Anyways.....

It seems that some member of eunuch.org, whom I cannot identify due to faulty internal MSN links that only yield a warning page and no profile over and over and over again, came to her room and flaunted his adult profile for her little minions to see.

Clicking through the tons and tons of warning signs and knowing full well that they were about to be exposed to "GASP" adult content, they charged blindly ahead and found an objectionable image in his profile.

Imagine that. An adult pic in an adult profile on an adult section of an MSN board. Scandalous! HOWEVER, this alleged image, so she says, contained child pornography. I cannot verify this, thanks to MSN's faulty links.

However, they also noticed a link to HERE and wound up finding an email link to ME ... or rather, Archive@eunuch.org

After reading about 20k of this madwoman's rants, a very FEW of which I find valid, I wish to politely tell everyone that is registered here (or has a profile online with a link to HERE) to NOT GO FLASHING IT AROUND on strange chat rooms! WE have a chat room set up for us ... and if you feel the need to flaunt, GO THERE!

Please ... I cannot stress it enough, don't go running madly about and barging into other rooms on other servers and trying to stir up trouble. Rest assured, that if this woman will send me a link to who did this - a link that works - I will ban him.

The Eunuch Archive does not condone, promote, or harbor child pornography in digital image formats. That is not what we are here for. The said image does not exist on our server, and such images will not be tolerated. If you wish to use a baby/childhood pic as your avatar, and it's a G-rated pic, fine.

If you do have a pedophilic interest, as I informed her, that's really none of MY business as long as you keep the board here ON TOPIC. I don't want to know.

Thank you.

[kb57z (imported)]

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After reading about 20k of this madwoman's rants, a very FEW of which I find valid, I wish to politely tell everyone that is registered here (or has a profile online with a link to HERE) to NOT GO FLASHING IT AROUND on strange chat rooms! WE have a chat room set up for us ... and if you feel the need to flaunt, GO THERE!

Please ... I cannot stress it enough, don't go running madly about and barging into other rooms on other servers and trying to stir up trouble. Rest assured, that if this woman will send me a link to who did this - a link that works - I will ban him.

I do hope you meant "a link which works, and which yields a reasonable level of proof of culpability." Otherwise it could be rather embarassing if a troll has hijacked your avatar.

As an e-mail postmaster myself, I would have sent back an extremely formal reply, stating that a) my employers have very strong views on what our users get up to (and should not get up to) and b) that we can only act on the available evidence. I would also make it very clear that I don't consider a "threatening 20K rant" to be a responsible way of making a complaint (and I'd probably CC the MSN administration to emphasise that!)

After all, are you sure that the complaint is genuine in the first place...

[Paolo]

I do hope you meant "a link which works, and which yields a reasonable level of proof of culpability." Otherwise it could be rather embarassing if a troll has hijacked your avatar.

Yes, that's what I MEANT. If I were to go to such link and find a picture of a cute, fluffy kitty then I'd not be banning anyone over it. If she can provide the working link to this alleged profile, though, and I find a picture of a child thereon which conforms to the official Federal Guidelines for Photo/Digital Imagers sheet that I have at work, then yes, someone's ass is going to get kicked.

As an e-mail postmaster myself, I would have sent back an extremely formal reply, stating that a) my employers have very strong views on what our users get up to (and should not get up to) and b) that we can only act on the available evidence. I would also make it very clear that I don't consider a "threatening 20K rant" to be a responsible way of making a complaint (and I'd probably CC the MSN administration to emphasise that!)

I did that. I may even repost it. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

After all, are you sure that the complaint is genuine in the first place...

Given the nature of some of the things that I've had to put up with in running this hot dog stand, I can't rule it out as a hoax or a troll. I also thoroughly enjoy replying to them, though.

It's the continued welfare of this site that concerns me.

And on a closing note, for anyone else that thinks I'm a complete, total idiot with nothing better to do, don't tell ME how to run this hot dog stand, pal. The odds are pretty much 50-50 that this event DID happen, and it has to be dealt with.

[talula]

Just as a reiteration.

This site, which is clearly an adult site, will take no part in any of it's members involving themselves with child pornography.

Any member who violates this rule, and is discovered and identified, will be banned by Paolo after he picks up the remains of your bleeding dis-membered body once I get done with it.

This site has no pictures of minors except for G-rated ones used by our members as avatars.

I think it is simple and clear.

talula

[Colonel Quack (imported)]

People are stupid.

[Riverwind (imported)]

yep, bet on stupid all the time,

And I love your quote of our President.



yep bet on stupid every time.

[Andrew (imported)]

People are stupid.

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I support our lousy, unelected President.

[Riverwind (imported)]

But he was elected, by the electoral college, the body of reprehensive that you and I voted for. This is not a democracy this is a Republic. Go back and reread your US History on how presidents are elected.

Now don’t get me wrong I did not vote for this guy, most people did not, that is true he lost the popular vote remember we are a Republic not a Democracy.

Now that your completely confused and wondering if the electoral college has out live its usefulness, before you say yes, there was a person (democrat) that put up the argument for the college to stay in place, after lission to him I agreed.

Take a look at the map of the USA and which states went for Gore and which for Bush, you will see that the middle states are just as important as the industrial east north and west. Our system is good because it works. We may not like the outcome but I don’t think it needs fixing.

[Tomas (imported)]

Our system is good because it works. We may not like the outcome but I don’t think it needs fixing.

I dunno - I think "W" should be "fixed."

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[Mac (imported)]

But he was elected, by the electoral college, the body of reprehensive that you and I voted for. This is not a democracy this is a Republic. Go back and reread your US History on how presidents are elected. ... Our system is good because it works. We may not like the outcome but I don’t think it needs fixing.

We know which states voted for each candidate. However, there is not any way to know the true national popular vote.

Many absentee votes go uncounted in every state as they are frequently not counted if the total number of votes in question is not large enough to change the outcome within the state. Thus, we only know the totals of the votes which were actually counted. Our system of government calls for the states to cast the votes for president through electors and doesn't specify how the states choose the electors.

In any presidential election, the true national popular vote is never known. The difference in the counted votes in the last election was so small that the uncounted votes could have changed the hypothetical result.

What would Al Gore have done if he had been president when the World Trade Center was attacked? (probably nothing like with the USS Cole)