Who did it?

[PetertheRock]

I'm just going to say it, people that use the stupid report button are douche bags.

I agree! I only use the report button as retribution for people who do it to me.

 

[_beloved_]

I agree! I only use the report button as retribution for people who do it to me.

How kind of you.

 

[MikeK]

I don't report people, ever...not even the fragile souls that report me. I have no use for tattletail hall-monitor types.

 

[_beloved_]

How kind of you.

I am sorry for writing that.
I am in a bad mood.
Maybe I will go to GT and cause trouble there.

 

[Annabel Lee]

I don't report people, ever...not even the fragile souls that report me. I have no use for tattletail hall-monitor types.

Those types were usually beat up on the playground a lot.

 

[Rochir]

Who reported me for my avatar, you nameless faceless coward?

LOL!

 

[OnTheWay]

You should never trust people who snitch, just no character there.

 

[ZuZu]

I agree! I only use the report button as retribution for people who do it to me.

isn't that old testament law? eye for an eye...

 

[MikeK]

Those types were usually beat up on the playground a lot.

Exactly. That said, I also believe in kindness. If someone finds something I say offenssive or whatever, I'll edit it out upon request, every single time. Miss Shelby is right on about people who report threads instead of asking the poster to edit the offending material first, they really are cowards.

 

[OnTheWay]

I got warned for using that phrase once.

I'm sure I'll get reported by some douche bag for informing them that they are indeed douche bags.

 

[Fish and Bread]

You should never trust people who snitch, just no character there.

Interesting choice of words there. In Baltimore, there is a group of African-Americans who put out a couple DVDs entitled "Stop Snitching" urging people not to report violent crimes to the police. I guess this is the toned-down white guy Internet version of that campaign, huh?

 

[PetertheRock]

You should never trust people who snitch, just no character there.

Agreed...from now on I am announcing publicly that I will never under any circumstances use the report button.

 

[Fish and Bread]

Exactly. That said, I also believe in kindness. If someone finds something I say offenssive or whatever, I'll edit it out upon request, every single time. Miss Shelby is right on about people who report threads instead of asking the poster to edit the offending material first, they really are cowards.

The only posts I can remember ever reporting involve a couple of people who continually post slander about a certain Presidential candidate, the same slanders, repeatedly, over and over again, at spam levels. I doubt a PM asking them to edit their posts would do much good. Many of us have asked them to stop, numerous times, we've posted threads about it, polls, whatever. This is the only recourse we have left.

I'm not generally someone who likes to report things or have them reported, but sometimes a line is crossed so repeatedly and so unrepentantly, even after it's been discussed with the folks involved a gazillion times, that higher authorities occasionally need to be invoked.

I do want to emphasize that I have no personal issue with either of the folks involved. I actually kind of like them. It's just that if I read one more "Obama is Satan Incarnate" type of thread, I may be forced to throw my computer out a window.

 

[OnTheWay]

Interesting choice of words there. In Baltimore, there is a group of African-Americans who put out a couple DVDs entitled "Stop Snitching" urging people not to report violent crimes to the police. I guess this is the toned-down white guy Internet version of that campaign, huh?

Snitching is a bit different. Reporting people on a stupid internet board is universally snitiching and universally worthy of the douche bag title. Same applies in any situation when you're directly involved and then tell on the people you're involved with, especially when you benefit from it. Giving information to the police when you aren't directly involved isn't snitching.

 

[tadoflamb]

I reported it.

I accept your derision.

 

[Michie]

The Mimi avatar? Why? Illegal use of war paint? For some reason this board is not downloading for me correctly today. Can't see avatars, dollies or anything.

But no, I don't report. If I do, (rarely if ever). I make no secret of it.

I find the anon report system defeating. It does not promote resolution & communication. Only suspicion.

 

[Miss Shelby]

I reported it.

I knew it.

 

[Miss Shelby]

you know what tad, if it would have been Shannon or Charlie or someone else, anyone else with that av, you wouldn't have done it.

 

[tadoflamb]

I'll just add that the last time I had a problem with MS I was told to "kiss her donkey".

 

[tadoflamb]

I'm putting you on ignore. I'm sick of looking at that avatar.