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Re: Posting guidelines updated : Avatar usage
« on: July 30, 2004, 05:11:51 PM »
seer, of course, the users concerned have already been contacted.

 

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Re: Posting guidelines updated : Avatar usage
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2004, 11:36:52 PM »
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well, I always say we're all born nude, through the vagina, and we all sucked on mom's tits (or the nurturer's)


I imagine we all soiled a few hundred pairs of nappies as well, but WHAT HAS THAT GOT TO DO WITH THE AMIGA?
 

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Re: Posting guidelines updated : Avatar usage
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2004, 11:55:19 PM »
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WHAT HAS THAT GOT TO DO WITH THE AMIGA?
What have those coffeehouses to do with the Amiga?


Coffee House is meant to be 'off topic' (at least as far as Amiga is concerned), not the entirety of Amiga.org.
 

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Re: Posting guidelines updated : Avatar usage
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2004, 11:58:48 PM »
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But is for instance a sculpture or painting from Michelangelo offending?

Does anyone find a scuplure by Michelangelo offensive?

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And why wouldn't guns (as I've seen those in avatars) be offending?

Do you find pictures of guns offensive?

But my primary question has to be, why are you defending immature uses of avatars?  Isn't there something more interesting and/or more important to talk about?
 

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Re: Posting guidelines updated : Avatar usage
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2004, 12:20:29 AM »
- edit - if anyone wants to continue this, start a coffee house thread -

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But is for instance a sculpture or painting from Michelangelo offending?

Does anyone find a scuplure by Michelangelo offensive?
I really don't know.



Then why did you mention it?

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Do you find pictures of guns offensive?
Yes, I think guns are as offensive as swastika's and alike.[/quote]
We don't allow swastikas in avatars.

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Because it has a history of caused grief and a future of causing grief, as it is the sole purpose of those.


So have many things, but that doesn't mean they become icons of that sort of thing.  For example, a cross would certainly be covered by that statement.

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why are you defending immature uses of avatars?
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If one wants to be that way, I think I'd be a hypocrite to condemn such a person, because I sometimes also want to state things with my avatar.


What, like "I like penises"?  Is that the sort of intelligent and insightful statement you want to make to other Amiga.org members at any point soon?  Nobody asked you to condone or condemn anything either, you're kind of advocating that people should have immature avatars to scream to the world that their sexual drive is working and they're proud of it and yet your shrugging your shoulders at the same time.