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Post by Oz on Oct 22, 2004 18:35:28 GMT
Basically you put Except it should have Sonic the Comic written between the two][
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Post by madhair60 on Oct 23, 2004 14:51:14 GMT
Eh... what are you talking about? In the "real" world, you can go outside and squeal "I hate Jews and black people. And don't even get me started on black Jews." or something and go unpunished. On this forum we will hunt you down and ban you. That was probably a bad example, but what I'm getting at is that you cannot plead free speech as defence if you say something offensive on the internet, since real-world rules do not apply per se.
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Post by Admin Droid on Oct 25, 2004 18:49:09 GMT
I'm not sure there's any real difference, actually. If you did this in the middle of an analagous social gathering, say, a football match, you'd be turfed out and possibly turned over to the police for incitement to violence or whatever. In fairness, if this sort of opinion was stated as part of a reasoned, non-confrontational conversation (not 'squealed', or the internet equivalent thereof), I'm not sure we could directly ban the person concerned. No matter how crass, offensive and ignorant the opinion is, it's essentially fair game unless it falls under some of the qualifications intrinsic to free speech. Of course, the chances that such a comment wouldn't lead to a flamewar is zero so flamebaiting would soon emerge as a legitimate grounds for banning -- but not, of itself, being racist.
And as you imply, free speech has always been a qualified right, and that goes whether on the 'net or in the middle of Trafalgar Square or Old Trafford. There's a whole list of legitimate curbs on freedom of expression. Pulling some from the Human Rights Act, for instance: "the prevention of disorder or crime, the protection of health or morals, the protection of the rights and reputations of others" would all be legitimate reasons to curb free speech.
Now I'm not saying moderating a forum is analagous to the activities of the European Court of Human Rights. But if someone was to make an argument on the basis of human rights, I suspect the degree to which we infringe the right to free speech is proportionate to the degree to which the law qualifies free speech. We keep things orderly, family-friendly and free from threats, recriminations and so on.
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Post by 321boom on Oct 31, 2004 20:48:27 GMT
Well, since this is a thread for asking questions I may as well ask a question . There's something that has really been bugging me. I don't understand this smiley . Is it an insulting or an obvious look? Sometimes I've seen it being used insultingly and sometimes I've seen it used obviuosly and somtimes I just don't know. Could someone enlighten me?
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Post by Admin Droid on Oct 31, 2004 20:51:29 GMT
It's the same as sticking your tongue out at someone. I use it when I'm being a bit cheeky mostly.
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Post by archangelffx on Oct 31, 2004 23:02:49 GMT
Yeah its not used to insult someone. If someone says something that seems downright offensive but they put at the end, they're only messing. No-one seems to get the smiley right. The MSN version looks like it's trying to rub saliva all over its face.
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Post by ChaosX3 on Nov 2, 2004 23:01:48 GMT
It's used as a "Being a bit silly" emoticon. I really love you Madhair. Gimme a big kiss For example. And a really bad one at that.
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Post by hyperknucks on Nov 10, 2004 18:55:58 GMT
I have poasted on the boomer zone and I looked now and its been deleted was this the work of a mod or is it a freaky thing
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Post by supersonicjim on Nov 10, 2004 19:19:34 GMT
Sigh, it is stickied.
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Post by 321boom on Nov 12, 2004 18:29:56 GMT
I apoalgise if this has already been asked but under a members avatar, there is a thung with a link saying Alert hume in charge. What does it mean?
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Post by Admin Droid on Nov 12, 2004 19:01:51 GMT
If someone's spamming, flaming or generally causing bother, click that link on the post in question and a PM addressed to me will come up. Then you just send it. I'll have to set it at some stage so it round robins all the mods but I was just testing it at the time, and I was afraid people might spam it. As it happened, only Tom did for some reason that escapes me.
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Post by Stuntman Fifteen on Nov 13, 2004 11:09:53 GMT
Here's a query for you. Sometimes I post in a thread and then go out to let the server put in the replies. Now sometimes (and this happened five minutes ago) I post a thread, see it in the thread and then go out of the thread to see if anyone else has a response and it disappears! I go back in the thread to check and it isn't there!
Are the mods conspiring against me to delete my posts before anyone else reads it?
BTW: And I have not been clicking the back button. That would be foolish.
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Post by Stuntman Fifteen on Nov 13, 2004 11:53:27 GMT
My threads and replies are constantly disappearing everytime I leave a thread! This always happens when I press one of the buttons on the top like 'Message Zone Introduction' button. What the heck? is going on?
Edit: Hey, now the reply I did here before reappears and this one decides to show up too, just after I pressed the 'mark as read' button! Really, what the hell is happening?
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Post by Stuntman Fifteen on Nov 13, 2004 13:56:48 GMT
Okay, now this is ridiculous. Four of my replies have dissappeared including this one, and now the mark as read button doesn't make them reappear again!
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Post by Stuntman Fifteen on Nov 13, 2004 15:29:50 GMT
Jesus, four replies in a row! Why am I having so many problems today?
Everytime I enter the Arcade Zone I am automatically logged off. WHY? WHY THE HELL IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME?
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Post by archangelffx on Nov 13, 2004 15:58:13 GMT
You mentioned that there was a power outage in your area and something else happened that I forget. You don't think its due to that do you?
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Post by Admin Droid on Nov 14, 2004 11:17:21 GMT
Maybe it's something to do with your history giving you the old page to view. I mean, I can see all four replies now. Next time you think you've been logged off, or you can't see your reply, try refreshing the browser once or twice and seeing if that makes a difference.
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Post by Stuntman Fifteen on Nov 14, 2004 15:38:54 GMT
Problem sorted. ;D N/A ffx, you were right, turns out the power outages have screwed up the cable internet feeds from the phone companies.
Ed: Its still happening, everytime I go to the Arcade Zone I'm logged off and no amount of refreshing will help. Is it because I don't go there a lot or what?
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Post by Admin Droid on Nov 14, 2004 16:18:44 GMT
I have no idea what it is about the Arcade Zone that's problematic. I can't see anything distinct in the code for that forum that might upset it. Has anyone else had this or a similar problem?
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Post by Matt on Nov 15, 2004 6:17:50 GMT
sorry if this whas alreday been asked but why does the triple question mark no longer post the puzzeled smile and nither does clicking on the smilie icon
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Post by archangelffx on Nov 15, 2004 15:14:51 GMT
Try typing out 9 question marks. It was apparantly done to cut down the number of question marks people did....of course people can just type in 3 times the amount they used to get the same effect....
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Post by Stuntman Fifteen on Nov 17, 2004 16:12:22 GMT
I have no idea what it is about the Arcade Zone that's problematic. I can't see anything distinct in the code for that forum that might upset it. Has anyone else had this or a similar problem? Don't bother now. It seems to have stopped. And anyhow, the thread dissappaering problem is still going on. Isn't there any way to change the history settings so I don't have to refresh every five minutes?
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Post by archangelffx on Nov 17, 2004 17:30:26 GMT
Separate question. I know Oz has but has anyone else suffered problems with the forum not fully loading up and leaving the background black and without many avatars. I presume this is either because work is being done at that present moment or that my computer isn't as fast as it used to be. Any suggestions?
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Post by Admin Droid on Nov 21, 2004 23:16:58 GMT
I don't know why this happens. I can only suggest reloading.
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Post by ChaosX3 on Nov 21, 2004 23:20:38 GMT
The answer is simple- At one point, Oz half loaded a page then quickly hit another link. As a result, the loading froze and has stayed frozen.
(Trust me, this problem is common with AOL)
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