Sam Spade wrote:
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cool_Cat/Archive/2006/01#New_user_box
for an explanation for the mastrabating user box. It was ment to be a disruptive, offensive insult, and is in no way indicative of a larger trend toward increasingly unreasonable userboxes.
Sam Spade
Sorry, but that's not the case at all. I made that userbox after stumbling upon Cool Cat's page and seeing the massive list of userboxes there. When I made it I was unaware of any controversy surrounding them, I just took one look at that list which seemed to have a box for everything and made the masturbation one as a parody of this whole userbox thing. So yes, it is indicative of a larger trend toward increasingly unreasonable userboxes.
Kevin.
On 1/6/06, Sam Spade samspade.thomasjefferson@googlemail.com wrote:
Taking away peoples user boxes is pointless and disruptive. Admins who think they should defy consensus to delete peoples self labels are out of line. I understand that discussing mastrabation is in bad taste. So are ALOT of user pages. I have been very disturbed by users whose pages tell me they are into Satanism, are a "perverted trannfag", or have a giant che image or soviet star. The single most disruptive user page I know is this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Deeceevoice
and it has no user boxes.
If there are real objections, craft real policy to deal w them. Do not persecute a popular trend in a disruptive manner. That just reinforces rebellion and resentment against haughty admins.
Sam Spade
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