Announcing Zero Tolerance

Dan, you're ugly & your mother dresses you funny. BTW, you have a freakin' giant head!!!

 

Jay! Long time no see buddy what are you doing slummin' with us lowly DJs?

 

Well I guess I will post this question here.
I had posted it in Athena's thread but Joker closed it before my question was answered.

I have a question...
I really am not trying to stir the pot but have wondered before and never asked.
If someone openly admits being a pirate, and calls themselves one can we then call them a pirate?
Also, would OKJT allow them to post?

 

That's quite a strange question but I'll answer. If they want to call themselves a pirate it's their prerogative. They would be allowed to post as any other member. I'm guessing someone who calls themselves a pirate wouldn't be upset if someone else were to call them a pirate. If they did get upset, tough cookies IMHO.

The issue here on OKJT is when someone is labeled and/or called a pirate in an effort to insult and inflame.

Recently one of our members who was labeled a pirate and pissed and moaned constantly about it has been using 'pirate' to inflame. When I've bothered to read the drivel, I've almost spit my coffee out laughing a couple of times. The irony hasn't been lost on me.

 

Wait- you're skipping the drivel? Not fair! Skip the drivel and forum maintainance goes down to about 4 minutes a day! :smilepill::biggrinpill::laughpill::winkpill:

 

Question: When someone displays a symbol that literally and figuratively represents piracy as their avatar, is that individual identifying themselves as a pirate?

quoted from Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(computing))

Despite the widespread use of avatars, it is unknown which Internet forums were the first to use them; the earliest forums did not include avatars as a default feature, and they were included in unofficial "hacks" before eventually being made standard. Avatars on Internet forums serve the purpose of representing users and their actions, personalizing their contributions to the forum, and may represent different parts of their persona, beliefs, interests or social status in the forum.

 

I'm quite familar avatars. Thank you. Unless someone calls themselves a pirate in text, their username or user title it's a no go.

 

Just as my avatar represents my current fingerless, bloody, intensity.

 

Yeah right.....

 

Here I thought you snapped a picture of me.

 

So that whole avatar story makes Audio1 a what?????

 

I think my avatar speaks for itself Chip.

 

Looks like a pirate who only wants to steal red circles with lines through them. I don't imagine there would be a huge re-sale market for these, but everyone has their favorite stuff, I guess... :laughpill:

 

My thoughts are it makes him someone who doesn't like pirates. Was it so hard to read that?

 

My avatar signifies that I'm a bitch, I guess. Except it's a male dog. I'm a cross-dressing bitch, then.

 

Regardless, I ain't a gonna call you no bitch. Wouldn't that be transsexual? Male dog?

 

Well, the dog's sex hasn't changed. It is just me pretending to be him/her so I decided it was cross-dressing. But then that drags some strange animal things in. And, as the dog has departed this plane long ago, it brings in necrophilia or zombies or vampires or something, too. This Avatar thing is much more dangerous and full of hidden meaning than first perceived. Woe to those that take it seriously.

 

I was attempting a mood lightening funny- Unsuccessfully, I guess.