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Sounds like you have been using FB recently
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Indeed, Facebook's private message feature does not reveal my email address. It is better at saving face.
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Agreed. You are correct. It doesn't block your e-mail address to the other party.
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Please delete this[^] blatantly, irredeemably racist crap.
And please give serious thought to banning the little a**hole.
L u n a t i c F r i n g e
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Agreed!!!
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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Thanks for the catch. Post has been removed
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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Who was the member? (post is gone now). Just curious.
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harold.
L u n a t i c F r i n g e
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Ok, thanks. I missed the post.
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You can see a post with the offending words changed in the backroom.
It's nothing special really.
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Ok. Could have done that earlier then I guess?
But I am surprised if a back room post got deleted because you used some slur words. I thought the back room permitted vulgar language as long as the post did not directly hint at anything illegal or prosecutable.
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I thought so too. But apparently not. Some clarification would be nice..
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The problem with deleting your post because you used a slur word is that people may now expect several other posts to be deleted too. It was to avoid this situation that the back room was created. So I am quite confused here!
I am not condoning your language, but I don't think that the back room should be moderated merely because someone used politically incorrect language.
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I can't speak for the moderators/hamsters, but I would think there are degrees of gray involved. This crossed the line. I can't imagine anyone would be happy (anyone with any sense, that is) hosting this sort of trash on their site. Racist rants are indefensible.
L u n a t i c F r i n g e
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You just read it wrong then. It wasn't a racist rant.
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If the average reader is offended or considers a post offensive and racist then saying "you read it wrong" is a moot point. This is a site for software developers to share code. What on Earth is something that even comes close to the line of racism doing on our site?
I didn't see the post but I back Sean 100%. We don't ask much, but we do ask for a little class.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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*sigh* admined.
Could you make the rules of the backroom a bit clearer then?
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Chris Maunder wrote: we do ask for a little class
class little{}
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Chris Maunder wrote: but we do ask for a little class
Like wearing a tux in the Lounge.
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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In that case I vote for the Back Room (and possibly the SoapBox) to be removed forthwith. As I stated in the thread that caused all the fuss, there has been far worse than this in the Back Room in the past which has not been moderated out. I don't in any way support the views of the people in question but you either allow all or none.
Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash
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Chris Maunder wrote: I didn't see the post but I back Sean 100%.
I didn't see the original post either and I am sure Sean acted with good reason. But if the post got removed merely because he used the n-word then I am sure there are other posts (several of them) that may be requested to be removed. So at some point you'll have to officially tell everyone what words are not allowed.
Otherwise I am not sure why you even have the Back Room forum for. Why not just remove it then? I thought the purpose of that forum was so people could abuse each other with the stupidest vulgarities and be as racist, abusive, and politically incorrect as they wanted to be without affecting the rest of the site.
Personally I don't like having that forum here. The crap that gets posted and discussed there is absolutely not suited for Code Project. The whole idea that it helps keep the crap to that one forum is kinda regressive. The correct way to deal with abusive members (in my opinion) is to warn them once or even twice, and then to ban them after they ignore the warnings. Right now the idea you are pushing is that it's okay to be dicks as long as you do it in that particular forum.
As a final argument, here's a question. Will MSDN forums ever have a forum that allows this sort of content? The answer to that should be the answer to this problem too.
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