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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As a good-natured joke I copied the admin's avatar. He got all butthurt over it claiming copyright, handed me a "warning" and edited my profile to remove the avatar.Originally posted by Zapruder View Post
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. -
Well you know what we've told you about the internetz being serious.Comment
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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.Comment
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look, the internets may *not* be serious bidness, but dead cats most certainly *are*Originally posted by Phrost View PostComment
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If 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.Comment
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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.Comment
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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.Comment
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totally. that's one of the many reasons that i don't post pictures of my dead cat on this forum.Originally posted by Phrost View Post
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.Comment
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Before you copied it, did the guy say it was his dead cat? Exactly how did that come up? Was it a strange pic?...Comment
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Hey Phrost, got a new avatar for you.
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Dude, that is seriously offensive- the cat was Jewish.Originally posted by Humanzee View PostComment
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Your photoshop fu is so awsome lolComment
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