This Is What Saudi Arabia's First PSA For Violence Against Women Looks Like

[Warren DeMontague]

175. Okay, again, point by point.

1) I didn't "follow a person around". You were trying to assert- wrongly- that somehow EEOC laws applying to whether or not a picture of a woman in a bikini (again, yes, it was Sophia Loren that you were talking specifically about) constitute a "hostile workplace" somehow are relevant to DU, which is NOT a workplace but rather a voluntary association on the internet where things like the appropriateness of Sophia-Loren-in-a-bikini pictures are determined by community consensus. I note that in the time since you've been in the lounge and seen plenty of similar material, so maybe you've figured out that it's not quite the EEOC violation that you thought it was. You are to be congratulated for working that out.

2) I don't know what "gossip" you're talking about. Is it because you had a sock puppet identity that was banned by skinner, and we were talking about that? This being an internet message board and sock puppetry being a unique form of disingenuous disruption particular to internet message boards -and one which, frankly, I had NO idea until recently just how popular it actually, apparently, is- sock puppets are a legitimate topic of conversation, as bothersome as that may be to folks who are trying to get away with that stripe of cleverness. To imply that discussions around known games like sock puppetry constitute "personal attacks"-- well, it begs the question, for one, which person?

3) In that vein, I can think of things that are more boring- like members (or previously banned members) of this site going off-site to start little enclaves from which they discuss this one and its members. That's the point at which I think it's time to find new hobbies. The rest of us have actual shit to do, most days.

4) There was no "stealing penises" thread.

Since you were moderator of the group, you were responsible for allowing that to go on.

Really? And where is that rule? Specifically? Is it next to the rule that says people can create additional accounts to get around the alert limits? Is it next to the rule that says all posts must conform to Federal EEOC workplace regulations?

Because
a) they are "hosts", not "moderators",

b) have you been a host? You don't seem to know what the job is, or isn't. If hosts are responsible for everything that is posted or said in their groups that will come as quite a surprise to groups that have had some exceedingly nasty material shared in the past. They're not.

and
c) I locked the thread when I became aware of it, which is the maximum extent of what hosts can do.