One more time let's go over this.

Perhaps if anyone read the post at the top of the forum they could understand.
I see so many people saying I have to know why someone was banned so I don't do it. I don't see how things could be written any clearer that this...

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When the owner of the site can not post a thread with out gross abuses of the above policy we have a real problem.
The problem seems to me that some members seem to think that they can rewrite the rules just because it's their opinion.
The comments and thread crapping in Scott's thread is unacceptable behavior. He is the reason you have a platform and place to talk about things and interact.
This is how you thank him, by disrespecting him and trashing his thread.
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[Richard Cranium]

If people would keep one thing in mind, they'd never get banned.

Act as if you were in front of a person of every religion,
someone from every race,
children,
parents,
the Pope

After all, with a membership this large, we indeed do represent a most diverse culture.

[nukes]

What's happening to this place?

[Creatures]

it's breaking up (part of it)
donnu, seems like war brought some emotion into the forum and a lot of bans

well that happened!

Cretaures

[Hawkeye]

im not catholic, I'm greek orthodox, we dont follow the pope, sticking to one person of every religion would suffice.

-HawkeyE

[M_Six]

My apologies if anything I said in Scott's thread was perceived as thread-crapping. It was not intended as such.

[Gomer]

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In this thread: http://www.techimo.com/forum/t60486.html
I posted about the possible WMD's that may have been potentially found.

The first reply by J-excel was 2 sentences, the second of which was:

Then maybe the anti-war people will finally ST*U.

Many of us are well aware of what ST*U stands for.
this prompted Epidemic to post:

They will not because they will not allow themselves to see any good that war may provide.
They are bound and determined that not one innocent should die even to save thousands or millions.
They also believe in sovereignty for murderous tyrants keeping countries of 26 million under control by fear and food.

J-Excel's post also prompted member Urban_Squrill to quote his post and add three words:

You said it.

Is that the sort of thing you were speaking of surreal??

[OuTpaTienT]

It certainly seems to be directly related to the subject you posted.

[Creatures]

The Pro war people see the good things in war and the Anti-war people see the bad things, no one can change that, but maybe we could keep the hate to the other side down!


BTW

ST*U

sorry bad english knowledge what does it mean? (explain it with clean words perhaps)

sorry for getting off topic

Creatures

[Gomer]

Shut The * UP