Well, duh!
If I wanted to hide it, I would have used a fake e-mail address. But I'm not that sneaky.
Besides, just imagine the coincidence of ME asking about a "hypothetical case" of a rant appear on the same day and hour as that rant actually appears, word for word the same?
The point is: what do we do about "obscene" usernames? Is Throbbing Monster Cock okay, just because you see an image of a chicken towering over the skyline and thus "get" the joke? (Not talking about the user himself; he's a good chap; just his nick.)
If we have a standard on not showing the goat man's naked butt, then we have a standard. All I'm saying is: let's refine and enshrine our standards.
Ed "F.A." Poor
On 11/11/02 1:17 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
Well, duh!
If I wanted to hide it, I would have used a fake e-mail address. But I'm not that sneaky.
Besides, just imagine the coincidence of ME asking about a "hypothetical case" of a rant appear on the same day and hour as that rant actually appears, word for word the same?
The point is: what do we do about "obscene" usernames? Is Throbbing Monster Cock okay, just because you see an image of a chicken towering over the skyline and thus "get" the joke? (Not talking about the user himself; he's a good chap; just his nick.)
As obscenity goes, Throbbing Monster Cock and Fucking Asshole are not in the same category. If you were attempting to make the comparison, you should have used something like Slick Wet Beaver.
(apologies.)
All I can say is that we have never had a case of vandalism which paralleled the one you just committed.
Ed Poor wrote:
If we have a standard on not showing the goat man's naked butt, then we have a standard. All I'm saying is: let's refine and enshrine our standards.
Do we have a standard on not showing the goat man's naked butt? We have standards on not violating copyright and on vandalising; either of these alone is sufficient for those specific cases. I personally wouldn't want to enshrine an additional standard.
-- Toby
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