The Big Cheese wrote:
But then say you have a "new member" like colors who sees it and is a offended or thinks its obscene. This is not a wrong opinion.
Derp. Colors wasn't a real person.
Even if he wasn't Merlin, and that was a real person doing all that; you're right, that doesn't mean he had a wrong opinion. HOWEVER, it does mean, that as a result of his opinion and the actions that he chose to take because of his opinion, meant that this forum is the wrong place for him.
Users seem to come in three varieties.
1. People like Colors, who come on, don't agree with the forum, and start a shitstorm.
2. People who come on, don't agree with the forum, and leave peacefully
3. People who come on, don't agree with the forum 100% of the time, but weave themselves into the forum peacefully.
There is no 4. There is no person who agrees with everyone in a community 100% of the time.
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Like seriously, I got myself banned from the Slightly Damned forums in two days. The admin there had a metal rod up her booty like nobody's business, and flipped the fuck out. That's fine, that's cool. I'm well aware of a place where I don't fit in on that forum.
When you don't fit in somewhere, you have two choices... Accept it, or fight it. You cannot possibly fit in everywhere, and you cannot possibly hope to win by fighting it.
If "Colors" just simply disagreed with people there would have been no problem, but "he" acted like a dick and refused to drop a subject any real new member would be willing to drop. This is the internet, nobody has the right to be offended by anything anyways.
So is the lesson that if a new member comes here and disagrees with us, we have to rearrange to forum to fit his/her liking?