This is a serious question aimed at adults.
Following the thread started by Gadget that informed us of the new “Spam Killer” button, I posted a (very obviously) spoof “Ethiopian with money” thread. I did think that using my own login name might – just – give the game away.
Of course, it went the way of all such threads with The Usual Suspects chipping in with some appropriate responses. When I left work for an evening out, it was at about thirty posts and had taken on the life of its own that characterises a good “Miscellaneous” thread. I left it at the point that Maxwell posted some Beatles lyrics and was interested on my return in seeing where it had traveled without me…
Ok, so a couple of [b]my[/b] posts were a little risque but they were, in my opinion, aimed pretty directly. They were aimed at someone who very recently started a suggestive thread of his own and chided those peers who chose not to take his comments in the manner that he believed that they should. They were also aimed at someone who I thought would see the joke. They were FUNNY.
My question is: “Why was the thread pulled?”. Maybe, I have to ask “Where did the thread move on to that warranted it being pulled?” as it is a possibility that it went somewhere way beyond where I left it.
Even so, itt was only a bit of fun. I’m just asking. The thread was pulled and yet it so wasn’t spam. So – what was it? It is, you know, only words on a screen. No one is hurt. no one dies. Are there boundaries that we shouldn’t cross here? Are there moral and societal taboos that we cannot poke a stick into, here? Ok, if there are, then lets have a list and if I don’t like it I’ll push off elsewhere.
Neil 🙁
