Posts by northernpilot2

Here you go 🙂

Look, you’ve asked me this same thing a bunch of times now, and I feel like I’ve already given you my answer more than once, so I really don't see the point in just going in circles forever on this one. 🙂
Your question was basically about whether I’d let you take over a section from the general discussion boards—and honestly, my decision is no.
To be totally blunt, I just don't get the vibe that you've actually changed, and I'm worried you'd just pick up right where you left off the second you got control of the section, so yeah, it's a no.

It’s not like things just go back to normal on these forums.
When you happen to stumble across some images on a thread, you'll see that 🙂
has finally crawled back.

The image function is slowly making its way back onto the forums, just like Brandon Lopez6 mentioned earlier—honestly, I think it’s already popped up on a few of them.
If you actually start seeing pictures appearing, then you'll know for sure it's officially back.🙂

So, I think there was a time when the IMG function was just totally disabled or whatever. It seems like they're slowly bringing it back to the forums now, though I guess it won't show up on those specific boards where you couldn't use IMG to post pictures anyway, since that wasn't even an option before they shut it down in the first place.

Posts usually get nuked mostly because people just can't help themselves and keep quoting them or replying even after they've been flagged with Cardboard.
In most cases, it’s just hard for someone to hold back, you know? Even if a post is already marked as Cardboard, people feel this massive urge to jump in and fire back at some provocation or an insult, and since we want to stop that whole cycle from starting, the post gets flagged and wiped out. 🙂

It’s basically how we keep things from spiraling out of control in a thread, plus it kind of 'protects' the user too, so they don't end up catching a Cardboard themselves just for responding to some random jerk who insulted them.

It’s possible there was just some weird glitch within the Reddit app itself, you know, if that's what you were using to log in.

lonegull16 said:But wait, isn't that just straight-up discrimination against female nipples? 😢 So, what, does using an image link only count if it's full-on nudity or some other kind of explicit stuff? 🤔

Blood dim, look, you already said you were gonna do whatever you felt like doing with this thread anyway, so I don't even feel like wasting my breath arguing about it. If the same rules apply to everything else—like, if there's a massive sweep to clear out inappropriate images across the whole damn forum—then fine. I'm not complaining. And yeah, don't bother starting a new thread, because some jerk will probably jump on that if they get the chance. 😬

Anyway, that's all I got to say. 👋

Of course they apply.
If you actually bothered to look at my old posts, I explicitly mentioned that images featuring men and women could be controversial. The fact that it leaned into being a gay topic didn't have anything to do with the rule itself.
This is going to be applied to any thread that might contain, or already contains, inappropriate imagery.
Besides, I've already wiped out a bunch of threads from the OFF topic section just because of how much junk was in them and since those are basically just chat rooms. 🙂

Go ahead and open one if you want.

Just noticed I left a few typos up there, but I definitely need to fix this one:

A shirtless guy isn't some inappropriate image, and honestly, I don't even think it qualifies as indecent.

What I was trying to get at is that a shirtless man shouldn't be grounds for a ban. That kind of stuff is fine, whereas the things that actually cross the line were already listed by rustydrifter10.

He’ll be drifting back from one forum to another, nice and slow, I guess. 🙂

lonegull16 said:So if they aren't considered appropriate, I guess I shouldn't even be posting them as links? I mean, we’ve somehow reached a point where I can’t even post a shirtless guy as a link. If that's what counts as inappropriate now. I mean, obviously everyone knows naked guys are out of bounds, but you're telling me even photos of people who aren't totally naked are problematic too? Guess we'll just wait until winter rolls around, then maybe it'll be trendy to post pictures of bundled-up queers.

Look, I never said that. I just said you can't post inappropriate images. It was rustydrifter10 who specified which ones count as inappropriate.

That includes anything showing nipples, bare butts, or genitals. Generally speaking, any images that could be considered disturbing or run afoul of the law are also banned.

A guy without a shirt isn't an inappropriate image, and I certainly don't think it is.

It becomes a real issue if someone posts a photo of a forum user typing in a thread, because that compromises their identity and risks way too much. Everything else doesn't seem like a problem to me. Though, maybe I'm being a bit selfish... maybe you guys are actually trying to help us by making sure society gets a clearer, better picture of us, since there are plenty of outsiders reading this.🙂

That falls into a completely different category of "problematic images" because it involves exposing someone's identity, which is strictly against the rules.
I'm not labeling you people as "something" just to paint a certain picture for others. To me, a person is just a person. Regardless of gender, religion, sexual orientation, whatever.

What exactly are we saving ourselves from by posting images as links? If someone is curious, they're going to look at the picture whether it's embedded via IMG code or just a link. Honestly, I don't see any issue here other than maybe someone getting shocked by some male pecs. I really don't think there's any need to lock the thread or force everything into links. If you wanted it this way, you should have sorted out the options on the Offtopic subforum, just like you did for hazelnut. This wouldn't have even happened.

I also don't see why we can't just move the chat to a new thread. But hey, if you guys are dead set against it, I'm not going to push it; I don't gain anything from it. You don't have to start a new thread, it's really up to you.🙂

I skipped some parts so I wouldn't just be repeating myself, since I'd probably say the same thing anyway.

stormycrane3 said:hey there!
I'm usually more of a lurker, you know? I rarely post in these specific threads, but I just felt like I had to jump in here and say I agree with the OP on every single point regarding that controversial locked thread and why it had to be shut down. It doesn't matter if people are allowed to start new threads or whatever; specifically regarding @Matthew Carter, he pretty much hit the nail on the head and is 100% right, even though it seems like nobody else is giving him any credit. Why is that? 😉There are some minor contradictions going on.

Hey Blood Dim and admin rustydrifter10, just take a look at the last page of this thread. Now, just imagine if instead of links, those were all posted using IMG code. But that's just the last page filled with those images; 😉the pictures in this thread are definitely not for kids. I think I've made my point.

Most likely this

Nah, Matthew Carter didn't actually get to the heart of the issue because his reasoning was off.
I want to make it clear right away that homosexuality has absolutely nothing to do with why this thread was locked. If that were the case, I wouldn't have allowed a new thread to be opened at all.

I've never really liked living in a small, conservative country where there's always a hierarchy of who's "more equal" than others. Personally, I can't stand conservatism or any kind of discrimination. In my own life, I hang out with gay people all the time, and even here on the forum, so saying the reason for closing the thread has anything to do with gay people posting on it is totally wrong.

Anyway, to wrap this up.
The thread was closed because it contained inappropriate images that simply don't belong on this forum. Because the thread has become so massive, we aren't going to go back and scrub through everything since it's basically a chat thread; instead, it's going to be deleted like I mentioned before. Feel free to start a new thread and pick up where you left off.

Or maybe he just reached out to some guy named Nice, since I just checked and there are actually people using the handle Nice and stuff like that 😁

So it was probably just some big misunderstanding, honestly, as long as things are sorted out now, and you were pretty quick about it 🙂

Matthew Carter said:Or maybe you guys just feel like it’s somehow "inappropriate" for dudes to be thirsting over photos of other guys because it might look "problematic" to the general public? 🤷
I mean, if someone actually had an issue with the gay community, I highly doubt they’d even bother starting a thread with this title just to come here and read it. Besides, they don't even have to read it if it bothers them, but honestly, I think locking a thread that didn't even break any actual rules without giving a heads-up was a pretty bad call.

Obviously, that isn't the reason, and nobody is being homophobic here.

Like rustydrifter10 mentioned, this applies to all kinds of images, and I already pointed out that it doesn't matter whether the subject is a man or a woman.
Inappropriate pictures aren't allowed anywhere, including on Offtopic.

Just because some person won't click on this thread to read it doesn't mean Google won't find it, and Google indexes everything on this forum.

The thread wasn't deleted without warning. I put a notice right on the thread itself saying people are free to start a new one since I'm going to clear this one out. I did close it, yeah, but only so people would stop posting here and just move straight to a new one instead. The thread hasn't vanished into thin air yet, but it will be gone soon; the crew from the thread is more than welcome to start a new one with the same title, or I can even migrate the last hundred posts over for them so they can pick up the chat and hanging out right where they left off.

Look, nobody actually said this change was gonna happen instantly, nor did anyone give a specific timestamp for when it goes live.
Once you get the green light on the change and shoot a message over to Nicole, your handle might update within five minutes, or maybe it could take a couple of days—hell, it might even take longer than that.

Just try not to be so impatient, okay? Seriously, don't go flooding her inbox with a bunch of "When is it happening?" messages or whatever.

Honestly, I have zero clue what kind of images used to get posted here before I took over as mod for this section, and frankly, it doesn't even matter now. Since I’m running the show today, I might as well address the actual issue at hand.

I spent most of my evening scrolling through this thread—and just scanning random pages throughout the whole thing—and I ended up stumbling upon some images that just don't belong on this forum. I mean, look, nobody is completely naked (doesn't really matter if they're guys or girls), but the point is, this kind of stuff isn't appropriate for our community.

I’m not going to call anyone out by name, because let's be real, this thread is massive—like, 8,000 posts deep—so it’s just easier to start fresh and move this entire thread into the archives.

If you guys want, I can just open up a new thread containing the last hundred or so posts; I don't really mind doing that.

So, look, some of the pictures floating around in this thread—not all of them, obviously, but yeah, some of them—are just totally inappropriate for a public forum, and I happened to stumble upon them by accident the other day.
Since this is basically just a massive chat thread with an insane amount of posts, trying to scroll through the whole thing to find everything is pretty much impossible, especially now that we don't have the IMG code anymore.

I never actually told you guys that you couldn't start a new thread, and I think I even mentioned that you should go ahead and do it since I’m planning on wiping this one out anyway.

So, yeah, feel free to spin up a new thread and pick up right where the conversation left off, but please, I’m begging you, don't go posting all kinds of NSFW stuff that's gonna break the site rules.

Later,

Look, you can totally just use my first name, no big deal. 🙂
And seriously, could you please just drop the link to that controversial post?

To the mods running this particular sub/forum.