Tom T-shirt is lookin like a pimp now!...and Phrost, could you direct me to the link where you get banned from the James Randi forums?
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Guy who pays the bills and gets the death threats
- Jun 1998
- 19382 Location: TEXAS
Style: MMA (Retired)
Originally posted by Zapruder View PostTom T-shirt is lookin like a pimp now!...and Phrost, could you direct me to the link where you get banned from the James Randi forums?
Then I made a post to explain the nature of "fair use", in which I posted the altered image of the cat, now wearing a tinfoil hat as an example. That's when he suspended my account, again claiming copyright even though he doesn't have a leg to stand on.
The forums over there are really going to hell and it's a shame because they used to be a bastion of critical thinking and reason. Now though, the interforum politics, powertripping staff, and circle-the-wagons responses to any policy challenges are turning the place into an intellectual clusterfuck where eventually the only people who are left are those who are liked by the staff or keep their heads down and don't share any contrary opinions; not a great recipe for a skeptics discussion forum.
I honestly don't really care about the suspension any more than I care about much of anything else on the Internet, but the fact that their community in particular is going to hell does bum me out a bit.
Sorry for the derail. I'll move the posts to the skeptic forum.
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Guy who pays the bills and gets the death threats
- Jun 1998
- 19382 Location: TEXAS
Style: MMA (Retired)
Yeah, I know. They even have an "Appeals" process (private, secret forum dedicated to it). So I posted what I thought was one, but they deleted it because I apparently didn't follow their guidelines.
Jesus christ, all that for a goddamn forum.
It's obvious the guy's just butthurt over someone putting a tinfoil hat on a picture of his dead cat.
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Guy who pays the bills and gets the death threats
- Jun 1998
- 19382 Location: TEXAS
Style: MMA (Retired)
Anyway, I sent him a PM over there inviting him to verify his copyright claim by sending our webhost a DMCA claim, since I'm now using the same image over here, and seeing how well that went for him.
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All of these people take themselves too seriously. That's why I don't even bother. Either you have the conspiracy people or the anti-conspiracy people, and now we have the anti-anti-conspiracy people.* They all need to chill the fuck out and realize the great god Jambalaya is going to come down from his spaceship on March 16th midnight EST and turn us all into staypuff marshmallows.
*I actually saw a book entitled "Debunking 9/11 Debunking". My brain just sort of froze while I tried to figure out what the book was about. In my defense it was on the bottom shelf and I am too lazy to read the subtitle.
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Originally posted by Phrost View PostIf you post a picture of your dead cat on the Internet, you should expect much worse things to happen than having a tinfoil hat shopped onto it.
i think the guy is being really unreasonable and obviously has a stick up his ass, but i have found that the subject of dead pets is often a touchy one. not that you were wrong to push his buttons, at all, you were right to do it.
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