Guest Vickaroo Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 USMhttp://www.uswmb.org/viewtopic.php?topic=188&forum=6B Hey USMB members you gotta check this out..... Vicky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoahDL88 Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Well, that was classy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
operose Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 internet drama is t3h funnay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncoolperson Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 <cops theme> http://news.com.com/Create+an+e-annoyance%2C+go+to+jail/2010-1028_3-6022491.html?part=rss&tag=6022491&subj=news </cops theme> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HooptyGL Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 USMhttp://www.uswmb.org/viewtopic.php?topic=188&forum=6B Hey USMB members you gotta check this out..... Vicky your rotties are funny looking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subeman90 Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 snore.... somebody wake me up when someting good happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave valiant Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 What the hell is going on here. you can't put Bible verses in your sig anymore. What limp wristed, left wing, godless, freak did this. Was it that people were offended in massive numbers. Or was it that the right people were offended. What a load of crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSubaruJunkie Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Does anyone here REALLY know what the purpose of your signature is? Its not your little spot of advertisment on the internet which you can say any ole thing you want. If thats what your looking for, visit http://www.myspace.com Its also not for you to list every single vehicle you've ever owned in your lifetime. Nor is it a spot to preach your religious beliefs. Avatars are one thing, signatures are something completly different. Put Jesus in your avatar... nobody will say a thing. But list a few versus from the bible which have absolutly nothing to do with subarus... and yes a few people will have a couple words to say (and sorry if they arent as nice as scripture). -Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subarutex Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Correction Brian, Both Avatars and Signatures are under scrutiny. The USMB is a privately owned forum, about Subaru's. We, as Mods, have been appointed (volunteered), to help keep things running smoothly. Suprisingly... things start to run rough when politics, religion, and sex... among other things are thrown into the Subaru mix. We volunteers work hard to keep the majority happy, to keep the board Subaru oriented. Anyways.. I'm late for dinner. Politics and Religion lead to conflict (history proven). The mods are tired of putting out these conflicts. Thanks for being a class act Vickaroo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qman Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Well, since I was called upon I guess I should show up. I knew there would be flack from this. I didn't, however, think that it would have come from someone a little more knowledgable and intellegent. I guess I was wrong on both counts. The rules are the rules. There will be no exceptions or exclusions. http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/announcement.php?f=2 The rules are very clear as what is acceptable. These guidelines are how it will be. Fight this and the Administrators will have no choice but to turn off signatures and avatars. The membership has the choice but there will be no discussion regarding it. Any and all posts dealing with this in any forum other than site help will be deleted immediately and the poster will risk a temporary ban. We are very serious about this. I am tired of putting out fires and babysitting. Let's just go back to Subaru's. That is what we are here for isn't it? Very dissapointed in you as well Vicky. As a guest in my home you should know better. I guess we all have to live with our decisions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnW Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Vicky, You were banned for 7 days as a reminder that you can't make personal attacks toward another board member, including moderators. It has nothing to do with the signatures. You have the same moderator powers here(USWMB) as any of the members of USMB's moderator team have over there(USMB). On USWMB you have the right to delete any comment, including this one, if you find it offensive. You have made yourself clear in this thread that you are going to delete any devil comments anyone makes which is no different than my team saying we are going to ask all users that have a religious comment as a signature to revise them or we would do it for them. No? I live by the golden rule. For a very long time, including now, I have used ChefTim as a guide for "would this offend Tim and his family and if so it’s probably going to fall into the category of "not family friendly"” so we shouldn’t allow it. I’m a little disappointed now. Lastly, I, with help from people that you are now slamming for carrying out a decision made by a team of 14 moderators, run one of the cleanest message boards around. Look around and I think you will find a lot more foul language, pictures of women draped over vehicles at car shows, etc on other car forums. I think you need to re-evaluate what is important and pick your battles. Your husband resigned as a moderator. As a result of some of the battles he had with another couple moderators I lost 2 other moderators in a very short time because of battles between him and the other moderators. I appointed new volunteers (lets not forget all of us are) that were experts in their forum focus and that’s all I can do. Since becoming a moderator and honestly even before he was a moderator, Eric Zap has been a really stand up guy and labeling him as “nasty” and a bad parent because he put horns on a photo of his child is rude. There are plenty of creatures on the planet that have horns and it is Eric’s right to make that photo. It is your interpretation that is offending you and he did that to make a point without a doubt but his point is well made. The last straw for Tim before he resigned as I recall was a picture of a users car with a woman in a bikini standing next to it. The point of the picture wasn't "hey check out the ____ on that woman", it was the thought that a car show girl would stand in front of a car almost exactly like yours, AKA "DRTYGRL". It wasn't shiny, it wasn’t expensive, it wasn’t fast...it was an old Subaru wagon. My point is sometimes interpretation and being able to look at a photo or problem from more than one angle is an important part of being a moderator. You were quick to label the photo as “offensive to children” but if you think a woman walking around in a bikini is offensive to children and that people shouldn’t take their kids to the beach, pool, lake, etc…well I think you get the point. All the same, the post was deleted and no longer exists because you complained about it and we try to keep everybody happy but are now realizing that it just isn’t always going to happen. Thank you in advance for not deleting this post and for allowing people to read my views on this matter. I hope that you will take the 7 days to step back from the situation, take a break and think about what is really important and that USMB staff isn’t out to get you. Thanks, Shawn Watson USMB Administrator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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